Chillerpop is back with "The 31 Days of Halloween". This month, I will post once a day on horror Halloween-related things....
"Audrey Rose" (1977) was but one of the many movies I devoured as a little horror junkie, alongside all kinds of made for TV trash in the 1980's. It's gotten a fair amount of derision, but it's quite a haunting film, made in an era where any metaphysical concept taken seriously could make for an interesting and unique horror film.
"Audrey Rose" is the story of a young girl, Ivy Templeton, from an affluent New York City family, who is plagued by nightmares from a past life. It cues "The Exorcist" in many ways, from the 'possessed' thrashings of a little girl, to the Burstyn-like histrionics of Marsha Mason's character, the distressed mom Janice Templeton. But Satan isn't invited to this party - the seemingly benign spiritual belief of reincarnation is the culprit.
Maenads. Death itself. Locusts. Mermaids. Reincarnation. What are some of the more out-there horror villains you can think of?
And like "Rosemary's Baby", it turns out to be a fun New York City film, with various shots of the Upper East and West Sides, and Central Park, and the Court district downtown.
The father, played by John Beck, is a Mad Men style advertising guy! (but with a porn-stache).
One of Audrey Rose's more interesting pleasures these days, though, is the retroactive residual creepiness of Anthony Hopkins as the father of the reincarnated soul, stalking little Ivy Templeton and her family.
I also miss the era when PhD's in parapsychology and junk science in the vein of "In Search Of..." were respected and perfectly admissible in court.
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