Fantastic!

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

The first must-see film of the year.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Dan Curtis and Richard Matheson pretty much ruled 1970s made for TV horror. But when you throw in Karen Black and a memorable miniature villain, you're left with pure nightmare fuel for 70s kids. Sure, we can endure all sorts of gore and doom now, but on March 4, 1974, the ABC Movie of the Week was about to give you all sorts of bad dreams.STORY 1: JulieChad (Robert Burton, then-husband of the delicious Ms. Black) has it bad for his English teacher, Julie Eldrich (hey, Karen Black is in this, did I mention that?). So much so that just the glimpse of her thigh can make him totally forget all about class and fill his mind with daydreams. His friends don't get it -- his buddy Eddie says she's ugly. But that won't stop Chad, who watches Julie undress through her window before he asks her out to the drive-in.But Chad's a creep. Instead of just being happy about getting her to go out with him, he drugs her at the drive-in, then checks into a motel and takes all manner of sexually provocative photos of her. Yep. This is a TV movie playing during prime time -- the 70s were nuts.Chad gets what he wants -- a blackmailed Julie who will do whatever he wants. Until a few weeks later, she announces that the game is over. Julie's been a power bottom all along, setting the whole thing up.  "Did you really think that dull, little mind of yours could possibly have conceived any of the rather dramatic experiences we've shared? Why do you think you suddenly had the overwhelming desire to see what I looked like under 'all those clothes?' Don't feel bad... I always get bored after a while," she says before poisoning him and setting his darkroom on fire. She adds his obituary to a scrapbook but there's no time to rest. Another suitor has already shown up...Read more at http://bit.ly/2hXKMKN

'Trilogy of Terror' tells three different scary stories, each with Karen black in the lead role. These stories are well put together, and each have a eerie little twist at the end of them that left me shocked, and in one story, creeped out. In the first story "Julie", we meet a high school jock type of guy named Chad who wonders what his teacher Julie looks like under all of the stuffy clothes she wears. Julie has the whole librarian look going on. She has her hair up in a bun always, glasses on, multiple layers of clothing, etc. Chad becomes almost obsessed with her, and comes up with a sick scheme to drug and take photos of Julie half naked in bed as a way to blackmail her into sleeping with him and doing what he wants. It's not too long after that we discover Julie isn't all she seems, and that leads to a well put together twist.The next is called "Millicent and Therese", both of whom are sisters who have nothing in common. Millicent is the good girl with morals, values and no make-up. Therese is basically a sexually suggestive woman who uses her sexuality and looks to get what she wants. Anyways, Millicent tells a story which paints Therese as their mother's killer and makes out as if Therese sold her soul to Satan. We the viewers soon get a better insight into the two sisters and their personality when their psychiatrist comes on, and realize that not all that Millicent has said is true...The third and final story is the most terrifying, it's called "Amelia". Amelia is a happy young woman who lives on her own in a high rise apartment building. She's gotten a Zuni fetish doll shipped to her which she planned to give to her boyfriend as a gift, he studies anthropology. The doll comes with a scroll which states this specific doll is possessed by the spirit of a Zuni hunter named "He Who Kills"...and once you remove the gold chain from around it's neck, it will kill again. The chain accidentally comes off, and it goes after Amelia in her apartment leading to a genuinely scary ending.'Trilogy of Terror' is a good made for TV movie from the 70's, I lied it for it's interesting conclusions to each tale. Even if the story was a little weak or slower moving, the twist at the end saves it. For example, I thought the first two stories lacked compared to the third, but the endings saved them! Karen Black was magnificent in all of her roles in each story, this movie had to have a strong actress to make it work and she did. I highly recommend this one.8/10

Three stories in a Twilight Zone style, all featuring Karen Black, is a mildly amusing trilogy from 1975. Robert Matheson is the source material. Black is first Julie, a school marm college professor with hair pulled up into a bun and old fashioned eyeglasses. A student takes a liking to her and convinces the outwardly shy teacher to attend a drive in movie with him, where he drugs her and takes compromising pictures in order to force Julie into a relationship. She has a surprise ending, which is not a happy one. Black is both Millicent and Therese in the second story. Milly is a woman who presents a spinster image, and Therese is a blonde sex bomb in mini skirt. They despise each other and I figured it out very quickly. Number three is the most entertaining, as Emelia has returned home with a Zulu killer doll as a present for her boyfriend. On the phone, she tells mom that a scroll explains that the doll has an evil spirit which will be released if a gold chain is removed. Of course, the chain falls off and the little terror chases Black all over the place, with a sharp knife as a weapon. It is the best of the three and Ms. Black makes the seventy two minutes worthwhile.

The doll portion of this trilogy is a true horror classic! My wife has never seen it and I can't wait for her to see it and have the same appreciation that I have. Scared the crap out of me back in the day so much that I swore off "action figures" for a while!I recommend this viewing to any and all who appreciate a good quality scare to remember. Yes the enhanced Special effect quality will not rival the current movie quality but true horror buffs will love it! Karen Black stayed on my horror queen List for a long while. Scare quality for me??? This rivaled my first vampire thriller from The Night Stalker 1974-1975. KwizB