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(More customer reviews)As a fan of horror, I figured I would give this movie a viewing. As you guessed it, the movie concerns possession, but also goes into the 70s culture and seems to pass judgment on the rich. How's that for a horror film?
Shirley MacLaine plays a New York socialite who raises her two children and looks after her brother. Both come from a rich background. Her brother, Joel Delaney, tries to attack his landlord and is taken away raving like a madman. MacLaine, not understanding, proceeds to the psychiatric hospital and starts throwing her ex-husband's name around. After pulling some strings, the brother is released. The rest of the movie brings the gruesome murders for which her brother is now a suspect. He also begins speaking dreadful things in Spanish, but no one remembers him learning fluent Spanish.
The movie is set in the 70s, and the movie tries to show the collision between the Puerto Rican culture and the rich socialite culture. The possession happens when a strong-minded personality takes control of the weak-minded. The movie seems to say that the rich, who did not make the money themselves, are not strong-minded because everything has been given to them. The other issue is that Western science cannot understand something like this. We need the help of a culture older than ours.
Shirley MacLaine is infuriating and frustrating. My first reaction was that I couldn't watch this movie because her character grated on my nerves. After reflecting, I realized that that is exactly what she was trying to do with her role. I have to tip my hat to her performance.
Although not a horror classic like Rosemary's Baby or The Exorcist, this is an interesting movie. I would recommend it for horror fans.
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