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Crawlspace
DVD/APPROX. 74 MINS/1972/USA PG13+
DVD/APPROX. 74 MINS/1972/USA PG13+
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Crawlspace is a TV movie from the early 70s based on a novel by New York Best Selling author Herbert Lieberman, and developed into a script by
Ernest Kinoy, who had previously worked on such TV shows as Dr Kildare, The Defenders and Shane. The films is directed by John Newland, a
director who worked on many TV shows including Wonder Woman, Fantasy Island and Police Woman.
The story of Crawlspace goes like this: childless elderly couple Albert ( 5 time Academy Award nominee Arthur Kennedy) and Alice Graves (Oscar
winner Teresa Wright) have some work done on their house by a strange young vacation worker Richard (Tom Happer). After he finishes the work
he hangs around aimlessly, eventually being asked to come in for supper. He offers little conversation, except asking to borrow a book of poems,
which Albert allows, on the condition he returns it.
A few weeks go by and Albert discovers he has somebody living in his basement and his crawlspace: it is Richard, who has decided that the
Graves’ hospitality was the best treatment he had ever received out of life and that he never wants to leave, which would be OK if he wasn’t
psychotic.
After an altercation, Richard destroys the general store, which causes the locals to start a trail of revenge attacks both on him and his ‘adopted’
parents, which, of course, ends in tragedy...
Crawlspace is not the greatest presentation. This picture is covered in artefacts, but for a tele-movie from the 70s, it looks OK.
This is a release form Wild Eye who have also released other region 1 ‘TV terrors’ such as Maneaters are Loose, Shark Kill and The Devil’s
Daughter. This is a real soft horror film, and when you consider it was made over thirty years ago it is to be expected. Fans of Bad Ronald or Hider
in the House might get a kick out of it, but fans of gore and bloodshed won’t be even slightly interested.
This is a quirky little number with two excellent established actors whose performances are spoilt by Tom Happer’s forced ‘strange man’ routine.
Ernest Kinoy, who had previously worked on such TV shows as Dr Kildare, The Defenders and Shane. The films is directed by John Newland, a
director who worked on many TV shows including Wonder Woman, Fantasy Island and Police Woman.
The story of Crawlspace goes like this: childless elderly couple Albert ( 5 time Academy Award nominee Arthur Kennedy) and Alice Graves (Oscar
winner Teresa Wright) have some work done on their house by a strange young vacation worker Richard (Tom Happer). After he finishes the work
he hangs around aimlessly, eventually being asked to come in for supper. He offers little conversation, except asking to borrow a book of poems,
which Albert allows, on the condition he returns it.
A few weeks go by and Albert discovers he has somebody living in his basement and his crawlspace: it is Richard, who has decided that the
Graves’ hospitality was the best treatment he had ever received out of life and that he never wants to leave, which would be OK if he wasn’t
psychotic.
After an altercation, Richard destroys the general store, which causes the locals to start a trail of revenge attacks both on him and his ‘adopted’
parents, which, of course, ends in tragedy...
Crawlspace is not the greatest presentation. This picture is covered in artefacts, but for a tele-movie from the 70s, it looks OK.
This is a release form Wild Eye who have also released other region 1 ‘TV terrors’ such as Maneaters are Loose, Shark Kill and The Devil’s
Daughter. This is a real soft horror film, and when you consider it was made over thirty years ago it is to be expected. Fans of Bad Ronald or Hider
in the House might get a kick out of it, but fans of gore and bloodshed won’t be even slightly interested.
This is a quirky little number with two excellent established actors whose performances are spoilt by Tom Happer’s forced ‘strange man’ routine.
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