Let's Scare Jessica to Death1971

Name: Let's Scare Jessica to Death
Genre: Psychological, Supernatural, Gothic, Vampire
Released: 1971-08-27
Rating: 6.2

“Something is after Jessica. Something very cold, very wet...and very dead.”

Directed by John D. Hancock

6.2

Crypt Score

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IMDb 6.4Rotten Tomatoes 42%Metacritic 58TMDB 6.2

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Year

1971

Runtime

89 min

Box Office

Budget

$180,000

The premise

Newly released from a mental ward, Jessica hopes to return to life the way it was before her nervous breakdown. But when Jessica moves to a country house with her husband and a close friend, she finds a mysterious girl living in there. Jessica's terror and paranoia resurface as evil forces surround her.

Horror Vault's take

Fresh out of a psychiatric facility, Jessica is desperately hoping that a quiet move to a rural New England farmhouse will be the fresh start she needs — but the remote property has a mysterious uninvited occupant and a community that feels deeply, inexplicably wrong. What follows is a slow-burn descent into paranoia as Jessica struggles to trust her own senses, and those around her begin to doubt her sanity. Equal parts ghost story and psychological nightmare, this early-70s gem lingers in the mind long after the credits roll.

Content: Themes Of Mental Illness And Psychiatric Institutionalization, Mild Violence, Drowning Imagery, Unsettling Atmosphere That May Disturb Sensitive Viewers