So much average

Must See Movie...

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

I saw this movie years ago when I was a kid and I always remembered it. Steven Spielberg directed it after Duel (another excellent film) and it takes the vein of a supernatural horror up there with Rosemary's Baby and The Amityville Horror.A young family, the Wordens move into an old farmhouse in Pennsylvania. Darren McGavin as Paul Worden and Sandy Dennis as Marjorie Worden with their son Stevie played by Johnny Whitaker and their daughter Laurie played by twins Sandy and Debbie Lempert.Everything is idyllic until creepy things begin to happen. Of course the viewer is going to know that creepy thing will begin to happen because the film starts with the farmer who owned the house being driven to his death by a deep disembodied voice.A baby crying in the middle of the night, strange jars that glow. An evil presence that seems to be taking over their son. It would all be hokey in anyone else's hands, but Steven Spielberg takes all of this and weaves his usual movie magic. The scenes are genuinely terrifying with Sandy Dennis putting in one of her best performances as the frightened mother and wife.Darren McGavin of Kolchak The Night Stalker fame is excellent as the confused husband who fears for his wife's sanity.Johnny Whitaker is great as Stevie, the young boy in peril of being possessed by the demon that inhabits the old house.Ralph Bellamy who plays Harry Lincoln and Jeff Corey who plays Mr Gehrmann are both great in their roles.All up, this is a must see for fans of horror, the supernatural and Steven Spielberg

Marjorie Worden (Sandy Dennis) sees a farmhouse and instantly falls in love with it and insists her husband, Paul (Darren McGavin) agree to buy it. Wanting to make his wife happy, he agrees...and soon grows to regret it. The home turns out to be a one weird place...with strange goings on and Mrs. Worden begins to lose her mind. She becomes violent, unpredictable and weird...all, supposedly, because of some strange glowing mason jar and a house that's possessed by Satan. If this all sounds weird, well, you're right. The "ABC Movie of the Week" OFTEN had made for TV films with ultra-bizarre plots--with witches, monsters, aliens and all sorts of odd goings on. But what they didn't usually have was direction by Steven Spielberg (before he was famous) as well as a dopey ending...which, sadly, this one has in spades. The film sets an interesting mood but the payoff, sadly, just isn't there.

I never heard of this movie before, I had no idea that Steven Spielberg, was one who work in this low budget movie.It's was not bad movie, this were some good spooky moment in the movie, the baby crying was creepy at first but then got annoying as goes on for bit to long,There are some scenes in this movie, which are ALL MOST the as is other movie that made 10 years later Poltergeist. (Is little Girl in both movies)This movie was little short, i Thought, ending, it felt the story still going, then about then second later the credits are rolling,I felt there should have been a little aftermath of just happened but no! The acting well, the both good and bad, this was a TV movie. Worth watching

It's almost unfair to judge this film by today's standards. A) it's a TV movie; B) It's a TV HORROR movie; C) It's a TV horror movie from the '70s. All of these factors combine to literally guarantee that it doesn't have the fright factor of the classic theatrical horror from that era. Sure, there were some creepy TV movies in the '70s, but none had the intensity or the special effects to blow you out of your seat. "Drag Me to Hell," this ain't.Let's face it...if you've gone to the trouble to hunt this one down on You Tube or on bootleg VHS, you've done so to get a glimpse of Spielberg's guerrilla-style movie-making from his early, hungry days. And on that score, "Something Evil" doesn't disappoint. Say what you will about Steve-o's stuff of recent years, back then his films were FUN. ESPECIALLY for film buffs.He didn't just throw in fancy camera-work to draw attention to itself. It always had a purpose, it always had subtext, and it always was original. Take the scene where Whittaker is bouncing the ball against the house. Spielberg clocks the pace with the maddening repetitiveness of a metronome as Dennis does a simultaneous freak-out, smashing the ceramic pentacles she's making to pieces. Her subsequent violent rage against the young actor, even though shot tastefully from a distance, is truly disturbing. Mission accomplished. Ditto for the sly scene where Dennis peers terrified from her kitchen door at a young man, the door chain links neatly overlaying his eyes, like ominous glasses.And even though the mason jar, baby-crying gag is a bit absurd, the way it's shot is so masterful, it draws you in and creeps you out. Again, this is not a wham-bang thriller, but it definitely has its moments of uneasiness. I wasn't bored. If you like Spielberg's early TV work and "Duel," in particular, check it out.