The hearse
| Movie | |
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| German title | The hearse |
| Original title | The Hearse |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | George Bowers |
| script | Bill Bleich |
| production | Mark Tenser |
| music | Webster Lewis |
| camera | Mori Kawa |
| cut | George Berndt |
| occupation | |
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The hearse (Original: The Hearse ) is an American horror film from director George Bowers from 1980. The screenplay for the film comes from Bill bleach .
action
The newly divorced teacher Jane Hardy, who has recovered from a nervous breakdown and whose mother recently passed away, is looking for relaxation from the stressful everyday life far away from civilization and therefore takes her small car on a well-deserved summer vacation. The mentally battered woman's destination is the remote little village of Blackford in the country, where she wants to visit a house inherited from her aunt that has been uninhabited for years. The house has been a haunted house since the strange disappearance of her aunt's body.
Jane receives the keys to her property from the grim estate administrator Walter Pritchard, who believes he has been robbed of his inheritance. But the vacationer soon sees strange things in her house that she cannot explain at first. Because she looks very similar to her deceased aunt, she is avoided by the long-established residents, and even punished with contempt, since her aunt Rebecca and her lover, Robert, were once associated with Satan . To make matters worse, since arriving in Blackford, she has been watched and followed by an eerie black hearse. The teacher clearly feels uncomfortable in this situation, but tries undeterred to settle in. She finds some consolation in the acquaintance of the charming Tom Sullivan, a polite gentleman who begins to be interested in Jane and who often invites her to various leisure activities.
The frightened and intimidated Jane is always haunted by visions of her aunt, who died 30 years ago, who fell madly in love with a man who was close to the forces of evil and urged her to do the same. In addition, Jane has repeatedly had weird clashes with the hearse. At first she accuses Pritchard of intimidation in order to drive her away, but at the latest when she reads her ancestor's diary she discovers the true connections. Her lover Tom turns out to be a powerful immortal villain who once cast a spell over her grandmother and who is now on the lookout for a partner he believes he has found in Jane. He also reveals himself to be the driver of that bizarre hearse.
At the end of the film, the escaping Jane manages to push Tom and his car off the road. The hearse then catches fire and burns out. However, what exactly happens to Tom or whether he survives, the film does not owe.
Reviews
“If you really lose yourself in this film [...] you can discover a very fine, sometimes a little confusing [...] mystery thriller that masters the fine art of goose bumps. There are almost no horror effects, but if you don't get paranoid from this film, then you haven't really watched it. The story is well constructed and the good piano soundtrack does the rest. "
"All characters - and also the props - behave as if they were playing in a horror movie."
Web links
- The hearse in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The hearse in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Criticism on beamtech.de
- ^ Donald C. Willis: Horror and Science Fiction Films II. Scarecrow Press, March 1982, ISBN 978-0-810-81517-9 .