Man, I really wish this wonderfully stupid title belonged to a movie that was way more exciting… but that’s TV terror for ya. A woman and her niece move into a recently inherited ancestral home and discover it’s still inhabited by a couple spirits from the era of the Revolutionary War. Niece Sara is immediately drawn to the place and feels right at home. There’s a next door neighbor with a lot of face (I mean… that’s a bunch of face Richard Egan has going on… he looks like someone drew a caricature of Frank Sinatra while tripping on LSD) by the name of Pat and he welcomes them to the neighborhood right away. The house is the hot gossip of the town because it turns out Aunt Ruth’s now departed cousin discouraged any visitors. Pat invites them to dinner by his place and that’s where Ruth meets Pat’s nosey aunt and her friend who just so happens to be a psychic medium. Of course, a séance is planned. Sara starts seeing a young man who looks like an air-brushed Andrew Robinson from Dirty Harry but with the addition of a creep-stache. Ruth has a strange nightmare involving her niece begging for help in slow motion, Pat has an odd reaction to a portrait of some Revolutionary soldier, nobody can find the source of a draft that seems to travel all over the house, a voice is heard calling for someone named Anne in the middle of the night, Pat and Ruth get there smooch on and the séance goes down against Ruth’s better judgment. It doesn’t go well and after letting out a shrill scream whilst trying to connect with her spirit guide, the medium passes out. That portrait falls into the fire and Sara obviously gets possessed by some poor soul. Windy supernatural powers and attempted murder follows. Pat blames schizophrenia but Sara’s boyfriend and Aunt Ruth know something beyond the realm of science is playing out… they just have to figure out what the hell it is in order to save the young girl. The cast is wonderful, doing some fine overacting when the action calls for it (Kitty Winn mugs with the best of them as Sara) and Barbara Stanwyck at least seems comfortable as the new homeowner in way over her head. It’s dull but the fun kind of dull that seems to be well at home in TV movies from the time… it doesn’t really bore, just kinda feels like a comfortable meal you’ve had so many times in your youth and just miss the hell out of now that you’ve grown older and cannot match the recipe your mom had mastered.
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