Audrey Rose (1977)

Director:

Robert Wise

Writers:

Frank De Felitta (screenplay)
Frank De Felitta (novel)

Release Date:

6 April 1977 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

A haunting vision of reincarnation.

Plot:

A stranger attempts to convince a happily married couple that their daughter is actually his daughter reincarnated.

Plot Keywords:

Nightmare | Stranger | Reincarnation | Window | Scream

Cast

Marsha Mason	...	Janice Templeton
Anthony Hopkins	...	Elliot Hoover
John Beck	...	Bill Templeton
Susan Swift	...	Ivy Templeton
Norman Lloyd	...	Dr. Steven Lipscomb
John Hillerman	...	Scott Velie
Robert Walden	...	Brice Mack
Philip Sterling	...	Judge Langley
Ivy Jones	...	Mary Lou Sides
Stephen Pearlman	...	Russ Rothman
Aly Wassil	...	Maharishi Gupta Pradesh
Mary Jackson	...	Mother Veronica
Richard Lawson	...	Policeman #1
Tony Brande	...	Detective Fallon
Elizabeth Farley	...	Carole Rothman

Runtime:

113 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

France:-16 | USA:PG (certificate #24794) | Argentina:16 (re-rating) | Argentina:X (original rating) | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Norway:18 (1980) | Sweden:15 | UK:AA (original rating) | UK:15 (video rating) | Singapore:PG | Iceland:16

Company:

Sterobcar Productions

Trivia:

Susan Swift's first movie.

Quotes:

Janice Templeton: What do you mean your daughter? This my daughter we're talking about? My child!
Elliot Hoover: You don't understand.
Janice Templeton: I don't want to understand. You're crazy? And my husband said so and I want you outta of here.
Elliot Hoover: Is your fear talking?
Janice Templeton: No, this is me talking and I am telling my daughter is not possessed.
Elliot Hoover: We're not talking about possession, Mrs. Templeton. We're talking about reincarnation.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Blue Nude (1977)

Sadly lame

Marsha Mason is alright in this film, but Susan Swift (the little girl) delivers all of her lines in two ways-- a happy whine, or a sad whine. The sad whines are a lot louder. Perhaps that is why her parents seem oddly underwhelmed by the mishaps that befall her in the film. At any rate, the script is pretty terrible, mixing real Hindu theology about reincarnation, which should be respected,--- with crappy 1970's hypnotic regression crap that belongs in the new-age dustbin. I can't believe anyone ever found this movie to be scary, but perhaps the subject matter itself-- reincarnation-- was seen as forbidden and "occult." Today it is just a snooze, and Anthony Hopkins must be glad to be out of the career slump that had him taking on films like this.