Category Archives: Made for TV Movie

Murder, She Wrote S2 E7: A Lady in the Lake (1985)

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Jessica spends a little time at a lakeside inn where she witnesses what appears to be a struggle and a woman falling into the lake.

Season 2, Episode 7: A Lady in the Lake (November 10, 1985)

Tonight on Murder, She Wrote…

Jessica visits a lakeside inn to do research for her next book and watches a husband shove his wife into the water, killing her. Or maybe she didn’t. Is this a Giallo?

Who’s in it, outside of Angela Lansbury, and were they in any exploitation movies?

John Astin is back as real estate man Harry Pierce.

Carolyn Hester Crane is played by Susan Blanchard from Prince of Darkness.

Sheriff Amos Tupper? He’s back! He’s Tom Bosley.

William Christopher, Father Francis Mulcahy to some, is Burton Hollis.

Kyle Jordan is played by Charles Frank.

Howard Crane is played by Sybok, Laurence Luckinbill, who has been in so many things I’ve watched lately.

Grace Overholtz is played by one of the many Catwomen, Lee Meriwether.

Dr. Seth Hazlitt returns, played by William Windom.

Joanna Benson is played by Lee Purcell, Betty Jordan by Lauren Tewes and Noah Paisely by Johnny Crawford.

What happens?

Howard Crane, an older husband, seemingly dislikes his younger wife, Carolyn, to the point that he drowns her. At least that’s what Jessica Fletcher thinks. Sheriff Tupper does, too. Except that Howard jumped in the water to save her, so would he do that if he wanted to kill her? He tells the police — and Jessica — that his wife dove in herself. Meanwhile, people are sleeping around on their fishing husbands. The woman who may have drowned — and whose body hasn’t been found — was a champion swimmer, and that Joanna, a woman who runs naked for fun, was sleeping with Howard.

There’s also a birdwatcher lurking about, lots of people fishing and Harry Pierce trying to sell Jessica on the fact that the hotel is so much older — and filled with history — than it really is.

That’s when they find Carolyn’s body.

While she did drown, she also had mud in her lungs, glass in her skull and was wearing a bathing suit under her dress.

It’s a mystery. The kind only Jessica can solve.

Who did it?

Burton. He wasn’t just a bird watcher. He was family.

Who made it?

It was directed by Walter Grauman and written by Robert Van Scoyk, who also wrote over 100 episodes of this show.

Does Jessica get some?

No. I’m getting blue balls from this show!

Does Jessica dress up and act stupid?

No. She’s acting too normal!

Was it any good?

It’s a Giallo, again, just like the last episode.

Any trivia?

They are married to different people in this episode, but Charles Frank & Susan Blanchard were husband and wife on All My Children and have been married since 1977 in our real world.

Give me a reasonable quote:

Harry Pierce: When you told me you were writing a book called “Murder at the Inn”, I knew this place would be perfect. Did I mention that Edgar Allan Poe stayed here?

Jessica Fletcher: Harry, this place can’t be more than 10 years old.

What’s next?

Jessica goes to the races to watch her niece ride the winning horse. As you can imagine, someone dies shortly thereafter. Why would you invite Jessica anywhere? Jessica also has family, nieces and nephews, who all have outstanding careers but are some of the stupidest people ever. And they always get arrested or get someone murdered or have horrible things happen to them, and she has to save them. Is the entire Fletcher family and everyone in Jessica’s radius born under a bad sign?

Perversions of Science E4: The Exile (1997)

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In a future where murders are sporadic, a sadistic serial killer — and scientist — by the name of 50557 (Jeffrey Combs) tests the theory of Dr. Nordhoff (David Warner) that everybody can be rehabilitated. Maybe they can get even worse. Even the advice of 40132 (Ron Perlman), a rehabilitated killer, isn’t enough. So what else can they do but send him to a world that he can do little to damage.

As he’s sent down, a tech asks, “What about the inhabitants of the planet?”

Dr Nordhoff says, “I wouldn’t worry. He’s just one man. How much damage could he possibly do?”

Cue the Hitler speech.

This episode is based on “The Exile” from Weird Fantasy #14, written by William Gaines and Al Feldstein and drawn by Wally Wood, in which it’s revealed that yes, the Führer was a space alien.

This episode was directed by William Malone, who also made Scared to Death, Creature, House on Haunted Hill, Feardotcom and the “Only Skin Deep” episode of Tales from the Crypt. It was written by David J. Schow.

Also: Did you know Chrome the robot wants to have sex? She’s to bad sex puns as The Cryptkeeper was to horror ones, except, you know, most people love that guy. No one likes Chrome.

You can download all of the episodes here or watch this episode on YouTube.

Murder, She Wrote S2 E6: Reflections of the Mind (1985)

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When a phone call from Francesca’s supposedly dead first husband precedes a fatal incident, Jessica must unravel the truth from hysteria to find a killer.

Season 2, Episode 6: Reflections of the Mind (November 3, 1985)

Tonight on Murder, She Wrote…

Jessica comes to stay with an old college friend, Francesca Lodge, after everyone thinks that she is suffering from a mental breakdown and claims that her first husband’s ghost is haunting her. And when her second husband dies in a car wreck, she loses it all the way.

Who’s in it, outside of Angela Lansbury, and were they in any exploitation movies?

Francesca is played by Ann Blyth (Mildred Pierce) in her last acting role.

Carl is played by Wings Hauser, one of my all-time favorites. Man! Wings on Murder, She Wrote!

Dr. Victor March is played by Steven Keats from Death Wish and The Ivory Ape.

Martin Milner is Sheriff Bodine. This is the first of five appearances on the show for him.

Ben Murphy is Scott Lodge.

Stacey Nelkin is in this, too, as Cheryl Lodge. She’s in Halloween 3.

Esther Rolle is Margaret. She was on Maude and Good Times.

Janet DeMay is Brooke Evans.

Franny Parrish is a nurse.

What happens?

This starts with one of my favorite things: a publicity photo being used as an actual photo, with Ann Blyth and Angela Lansbury showing up in an old image to set up how long they’ve been friends. Francesca is reading Jessica’s new book, The Umbrella Murders. Is it a Giallo? Anyways, she gets scared by her husband and stabs him in the hand, which is enough to get sent to the nut house.

Jessica’s friends are all rich and insane and often, dead. Or soon dead. This one has a haunted music box that her husband’s spirit takes charge of and makes it play when it shouldn’t! Plus, she has Wings Hauser, of all people, as a landscaper! That’s a bad idea, and I’m not a fictional wealthy lady and know that! Come on!

She’s also the kind of rich woman whose husband is cheating on her and then drives off a cliff. There’s also a black gloved killer. There’s also a Giallo killer! What!?! Plus, Wings Hauser’s character is a blue-eyed soul singer named Hot Silk!

Who did it?

Hot Silk and Ann Blyth’s daughter killed the stepdad and two canaries.

Who made it?

It was directed by Seymour Robbie and written by Robert E. Swanson.

Does Jessica get some?

No. She also doesn’t do the next one.

Does Jessica dress up and act stupid?

We need her to act drunk soon.

Was it any good?

It’s a Giallo. You know I liked it.

Any trivia?

This episode was filmed at Greystone Mansion, where The Big Lebowski, Death Becomes Her, The Witches of Eastwick, Nothing But Trouble, Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Phantom of the Paradise, the original version of Flowers In the Attic and many more movies were made.

Give me a reasonable quote:

Jessica Fletcher: I don’t want to alarm you, but something very sinister is going on here.

What’s next?

Jessica goes on vacation and a woman drowns.

MILL CREEK BLU-RAY RELEASE: Ultraman: The Adventure Begins (1987)

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A strange meteorite crashes to Earth in the United States, and the near-tragedy combines the three-person Flying Angels acrobatic team—Scott Masterson (Michael Lembeck), Chuck Gavin (Chad Everett), and Beth O’Brien (Adrienne Barbeau)—with Ultra Heroes who have come from Nebula M7. A mysterious old man — Walter Freeman (Stacy Keach Sr.) — recruits the three to become Ultra Force and face a series of monsters, including King Maera.

According to Ultrafandom, “Between 1981 and 1983, Tsuburaya Productions established a planning department in the United States called ULTRA COM, with the aim of creating a film script titled Ultraman: Hero from the Stars. This film, written by Donald F. Glut, focused on the story of an Ultraman active in the United States. The initial plan was to produce a live-action tokusatsu film, with Jackson Bostwick and Anne Lockhart cast as the main actors.”

That eventually became this movie, jointly produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Tsuburaya Productions and animated by Studio Sign and Ashi Productions. It was initially intended to become a series. Still, it became a TV movie in the U.S. and a theatrical release in Japan as part of the 1987 Ultraman Festival with Ultraman: Terror on Route 87, Ultraman Ace: Giant-Ant Terrible-Monster vs. the Ultra Brothers and Ultraman Kids.

Also known as Ultraman U.S.A., this finds the new Ultras assisted by robots — Ulysses (William Callaway), Samson (Ronnie Schell) and Andy (Charlie Adler) — and operating out of a high-tech superbase under the Georgia National Golf Club that has a hangar that opens up near Mount Rushmore.  Now, Ultraman Scott, Chuck and Beth they’re ready to destroy the aliens from the planet Sorkin.

The U.S.A. Ultras also show up in the Ultraman Legend short, Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legend The Movie and Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad.

Directed by Mitsuo Kusakabe and Ray Patterson (who also made GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords and A Flintstone Family Christmas), this has a very American look — almost like how Bionic 6 and Mighty Orbots combined American and Japanese styles.

Also: Writer John Eric Seward isn’t a single person but a collective name for several people who worked together on the story.

This is a fun film, as all Ultraman films are, and feels quite a bit like Team America.

You can buy this Mill Creek release at Deep Discount and Amazon.

Perversions of Science E3: Boxed In (1997)

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For years, Kevin Pollak has done a Shatner impersonation. So why not have him in a Shatner-directed and starring episode as the potential son-in-law of the man who is Kirk?

A pilot (Pollak) has been engaged to Adm. Kornfeld’s (Shatner) daughter Dulcine (meta here, it’s Shatner’s real-life daughter Melanie, who was also in Syngenor, Cthulhu Mansion, Bloodstone: Subspecies II and Bloodlust: Subspecies III). He’s been forced to wait until the wedding night to consummate their union. While waiting for her — and her father to deactivate the chastity device that keeps him away from her lady business — he falls for Emmy (the Swedish Bikini Team’s Heather Elizabeth Parkhurst), a sex bot who he gets stuck inside, just when that device is hacked by his soon-to-be bride.

Not based on an E.C. Comic, this episode was written by National Lampoon alumnus Chris Miller and Kevin Rock.

You can download all of the episodes here or watch this episode on YouTube.

Murder, She Wrote S2 E5: Sing a Song of Murder (1985)

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Jessica is left in shock by the news of her cousin Emma’s untimely passing. However, her world is turned upside down when she discovers that Emma’s death was a ruse, a clever ploy to escape the clutches of a dangerous threat.

Season 2, Episode 5: Sing a Song of Murder (October 27, 1985)

Tonight on Murder, She Wrote…

Jessica receives a call about the death of her cousin Emma. When she gets to London, she learns that she has inherited the Mayhew Theater and that her cousin is alive. 

Who’s in it, outside of Angela Lansbury, and were they in any exploitation movies?

Violet Weems is Sarah Douglas, who kicked off my fascination with bad girls when she was Ursa in the Superman movies.

Olivia Hussey — from Black Christmas! — is Kitty Trumbull

Barrie Ingham from Dr. Who and the Daleks is Inspector Roger Crimmins.

Bridget O’Hara is played by Glynis Johns, Mrs. Banks from Mary Poppins.

Patrick Macnee is Oliver Trumbull. Yes, from The Avengers and tons of horror movies.

Danny Briggs is played by Gregory Paul Martin.

Don Siegel’s son, Kristoffer Tabori, is Ernest Fielding.

More minor roles include Kenneth Danziger as Acrhie Weems; Gillian Eaton as a landlady; Terrence Scammell as a director; Richard Davies and Neal Hunt as toughs, John Straightley; David Grant Hayward and Ron Southart as police officers; Larry Carr, Farrell Mayer, Tony Regan, Walter Spear, William Ward and Kathryn Janssen as theater audience members, Freeman Love as a bartender and Paul LeClair as a theatre executive.

What happens?

Emma, who faked her own death, is revealed to be none other than Angela Lansbury herself. This unexpected twist adds a whole new layer of intrigue to the episode, especially when she takes on a new persona and performs a musical number. And you know how much I love when Lansbury gets to do an accent, sing or dress like a moron.

Jessica finds Bridget going through Emma’s house to steal something. She gets her fur coat and wears it, only to be hit by a car that is out to kill Emma. She’s just in the way, or more to the point, they don’t know who they killed. It all seems like Oliver has to be the person who is trying to kill Emma and who killed Bridget.

Who did it?

Oliver’s lover, Kitty, felt that Emma was holding him back from being the star that he deserved to be.

Who made it?

It was directed by TV movie master John Llewellyn Moxey and written by series creator Peter S. Fischer.

Does Jessica get some?

This is one of only three episodes where Jessica gets an on-the-lips kiss with one of her male guest stars. This time, it’s Oliver Trumbull, the boyfriend of her cousin Emma, and it’s a case of mistaken identity. This rare occurrence adds a layer of complexity to the plot and Jessica’s character. She also gets kissed in S1, E0, “The Murder of Sherlock Holmes“, and S3, E6, “Dead Man’s Gold.”

Does Jessica dress up and act stupid?

It starts with Emma — close enough, it’s still Angela — singing  “Good-bye, Little Yellow Bird,” the same song she sang in The Portrait of Dorian Gray.

Was it any good?

Good cast, not a bad episode.

Any trivia?

Angela Lansbury and Olivia Hussey were mother and daughter in Death on the Nile. 

The last name MacGill is used several times for Jessica Fletcher’s ancestors or relatives. It’s taken from her real-life mother’s stage name, Moyna MacGill.

Give me a reasonable quote:

Bridget O’Hara: Danny Briggs! As poor an excuse of a human being as God ever made! This quote captures the intense emotions and drama of the episode, highlighting the tension between the characters.

What’s next?

When a phone call from Francesca’s supposedly dead first husband precedes a fatal incident, Jessica must unravel the truth from hysteria to find a killer. Wings Hauser is in it!

MILL CREEK BLU-RAY BOX SET: Bewitched The Complete Series

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Bewitched aired throughout the most tumultuous time in modern history — hyperbole, that could also be today, but true, as rehearsals for this show’s first episode were on the day Kennedy was shot and the episode “I Confess” was interuppted by Martin Luther King Jr.’s death — from September 17, 1964, to March 25, 1972. The #2 show in the country for its first season and remaining in the top ten until its fifth season, it presents a sanitized and fictional world that at the time may have seemed contrary and fake to the simmering 60s, but today feels like the balm I need and an escape.

Within the home on 1164 Morning Glory Circle, Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery) and Darrin Stephens (Dick York, later Dick Sargent) have just had a whirlwind romance and ended up as husband and wife. At some point, she had to tell him that she was a witch, a fact that he disapproved of, and that she should be a normal housewife instead of using her powers. Yet she often must solve their problems — usually caused by her family, such as her mother Endora (Agnes Moorehead) — with a twitch of her nose.

Creator Sol Saks was inspired by I Married a Witch and Bell, Book and Candle, which luckily were owned by Columbia, the same studio that owned Screen Gems, which produced this show. You could use either of those movies as a prologue for this, which starts in media res — I like that I can use such a highbrow term to talk of sitcoms — with our loving couple already settling into the suburbs.

Author Walter Metz claims in his book Bewitched that the first episode, narrated by José Ferrer, is about “the occult destabilization of the conformist life of an upwardly mobile advertising man.” As someone who has spent most of his life in marketing, maybe I should look deeply into the TV I watched as a child. Bewitched was there all the time in my life, wallpaper that I perhaps never considered.

Head writer Danny Arnold, who led the show for its first season, considered the show about a mixed marriage. Gradually, as director and producer William Asher (also Montgomery’s husband at the time) took more control of the show, the magical elements became more prevalent. What I also find intriguing is that with the length of this show’s run, it had to deal with the deaths of its actors and York’s increasing back issues, which finally forced him to leave the show and another Dick, Dick Sargent, stepping in as Darren, a fact that we were to just accept.

That long run, the end of Montgomery and Asher’s marriage and slipping ratings led to the end of the show, despite ABC saying they would do two more seasons. Instead, Asher produced The Paul Lynde Show, using the sets and much of the supporting cast of this show. He also produced Temperatures Rising, which was the last show on his ABC contract, which ended in 1974.

Feminist Betty Friedan’s two-part essay “Television and the Feminine Mystique” for TV Guide asked why so many sitcoms presented insecure women as the heads of households. None of this has changed much, as the majority of sitcoms typically feature attractive women and funny but large husbands, a theme created by The Honeymooners, and the battles between spouses. I always think of I Dream of Jeannie, a show where a powerful magical being is subservient to, well, a jerk. At least on Bewitched, Samantha is a powerful, in-control woman with a mother who critiques the housewife paradigm.

Plus, unlike so many other couples on TV at the time, they slept in the same bed.

Bewitched‘s influence stretched beyond the movie remake. The show has had local versions in Japan, Russia, India, Argentina and the UK, while daughter Tabitha had a spin-off. There was even a Flintstones crossover episode!

Plus, WandaVision takes its central conceit — a witch hiding in the suburbs — from this show. And Dr. Bombay was on Passions!

This is the kind of show that has always been — and will always be — in our lives. Despite my dislike of Darren’s wedding vows of no magic, there’s still, well, some magic in this show. Just look at how late in its run it went on location to Salem for a multi-episode arc, something unthought of in other sitcoms.

You can watch this just for the show itself, to see the differences between the two Darrens and when Dick York had to film episodes in special chairs because of his back pain, when the show did tricks like have Montgomery (using the name Pandora Spocks) playing Samantha’s cousin Serena to do episodes without York or just imagine that the world was changing outside. Yet, magic and laughter were always there on the show, throughout the lives, divorces and deaths of its principals and supporting cast.

The Mill Creek box set is an excellent, high-quality way to just sit back, twitch your nose and get away from it all. This 22-disc set has everything you’d want on Bewitched, including extras like Bewitched: Behind the Magic, an all-new documentary about the making of Bewitched, featuring special guest appearances by actor David Mandel (Adam Stephens), Steve Olim (who worked in the make-up department at Columbia), Bewitched historian Herbie J Pilato, film and television historian Robert S. Ray, Bewitched guest star Eric Scott (later of The Waltons) and Chris York, son of D. York (the first Darrin). There are also sixteen new episodic audio commentaries, moderated by Herbie J Pilato that include behind-the-scenes conversations with Peter Ackerman (son of Bewitched executive producer Harry Ackerman), David Mandel, Bewitched guest star Janee Michelle (from “Sisters at Heart”), Steve Olim, Robert S. Ray, former child TV actors and Bewitched guest stars Ricky Powell (The Smith Family), Eric Scott (The Waltons), and Johnny Whitaker (Family Affair and Sigmund and the Sea Monsters) and Chris York (son of D. York). There’s also an exclusive 36-page booklet featuring pieces by Bewitched historian Herbie J. Pilato, as well as an episode guide. You can order it from Deep Discount.

Perversions of Science E2: Anatomy Lesson (1997)

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“Anatomy Lesson” is directed by Gilbert Adler and written by Kevin Rock. Billy Rabe (Jeremy London) is the son of a small-town coroner (Jim Metzler) who keeps wanting to kill things. However, he’s stopped over and over again by The Bearded Man (Jeff Fahey). When he turns 18, Billy decides to kill that person so that he can finally be the murderer he’s dreamed of becoming. There’s also Linda (Devon Odessa), a girl who is in love with him, but he just wants to watch her die.

Want to know what happens? The Bearded Man and Billy’s mom (Joanna Gleason) are robots who keep watch over killers on Earth. They’ve already taken out Jack the Ripper and the Zodiac, so now it’s Billy’s turn.

This episode isn’t based on an E.C. Comic story. However, the story “A Lesson in Anatomy!!” was in Weird Fantasy #12. The plot is sort of close. “Chased away from his father’s lab while he dissects a body, Stevey finds a stranger in the forest. Wanting to brag, Stevey tells the man all sorts of falsehoods, which he believes; But Stevey soon learns a secret about the stranger he doesn’t expect to discover.” It was written by William Gaines and Al Feldstein and drawn by Jack Kamen.

You can download all of the episodes here or watch this episode on YouTube.

CBS LATE MOVIE: The Cartier Affair (1984)

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EDITOR’S NOTE: The Cartier Affair was on the CBS Late Movie on May 5, 1988.

Curt Taylor (David Hasselhoff) is released from California State Prison, and to settle a debt to Phillip Drexler (Telly Savalas), he pretends that he’s gay and becomes the secretary for soap opera star Cartier Rand (Joan Collins). The goal? Steal her jewelry. But then he falls in love.

Rod Holcomb only made two theatrical films: Stitches, for which he used the pseudonym Alan Smithee instead of his name, and Chains of Gold, the only thing that John Travolta ever wrote. The rest of his career was spent in TV. The writer crew included Scarecrow & King creators Eugenie Ross-Leming and Brad Buckner, who wrote the script from a story by Michael Devereaux.

What a guest cast! Ed Lauter, Randi Brooks as the Hoff’s girlfriend, Rita Taggart as the maid who wants to basically sodomize Hasselhoff, Charles Napier and Harry Reems as a cop! As for the film, well, it’s as good as a 1984 TV movie with Hasselhoff and Joan Collins should be. There’s one great scene where the Hoff is trying to run from mob henchman David (John Bloom, The Reaper from The Hills Have Eyes Part II, The Dark from The Dark, Frankenstein’s Monster in Al Adamson’s Dracula vs. Frankenstein). He keeps trying to talk his way out of it, while the hitman keeps telling him that he has to shoot him. Bloom was more than seven feet tall but had some great comic timing.

You can watch this on Tubi.

CBS LATE MOVIE: All the Kind Strangers (1974)

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EDITOR’S NOTE: All the Kind Strangers was on the CBS Late Movie on October 9, 1979 and November 25, 1980.

Let’s not judge Burt Kennedy for directing the Hulk Hogan vehicle Suburban Commando. Let’s remember him for something much better — All the Kind Strangers.

Written by Clyde Ware — a writer/director/producer who worked on shows like Airwolf and Gunsmoke, as well as TV movies like The Hatfields and the McCoys and The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd — this film reeks of backwoods menace. No wonder — Ware was born in West Virginia and his second novel, The Eden Tree, was a semi-biographical read which scandalized his hometown.

Jimmy Wheeler (Stacy Keach, Butterfly, Mountain of the Cannibal God) is a photojournalist traveling by car to Los Angeles. He runs through a small Southern town where he sees Gilbert, an adorable child, walking on the side of the road. Seeing that the kid is hefting some heavy groceries, Jimmy offers him a ride. As the road goes deeper into the woods, the rain increases. Soon, he realizes he’s trapped in a house of seven children.

The oldest, Peter (John Savage, Hair, The Deer Hunter), has hidden the fate of his mother and father from the town, using various resources to keep their power on and training vicious dogs to protect the children. Their father was a bootlegger and their mother a schoolteacher (what a match!); when she died, he drank until he fell from the roof.

The rest of the children — John (Robby Benson, who sings two songs on the soundtrack), Martha, Rita, James and Baby (named because their mother died before they could name him) — need guidance, so Peter sends the younger ones out to lure people to their home. Then, they evaluate whether or not they’ll be good parents. If they’re fit, they stay. If not, they’re free to go. Or that’s what the kids think. Evidence points to another, more grisly fate.

There’s a new mother already in the house. Carol Ann (Samantha Eggar, The Brood, Demonoid, Curtains) has been taking care of the children for some time. She has seen plenty of other father figures, and while she asks for help, she also knows that everything seems pointless.

Jimmy has to convince the kids that he’d make a good dad while trying to find a way to escape. But between the multitude of kids and dogs, as well as his car being sunk in the swamp, he starts losing hope as well.

I have two issues with this film. Things get wrapped up with way too neat of a bow. Jimmy gives a speech to the kids, which saves his life, and Peter asks him to walk him into town so that they can get some help. Jimmy doesn’t even talk about the police, and when you know that these kids have murdered numerous “kind strangers,” you have to wonder if he traded his freedom in for some complicity in the crimes. Second, as a photojournalist, Jimmy’s only camera is a Polaroid, which would not be good enough to be printed in the 1970s. I know that it makes good theater to have him show Gilbert the photo as it develops, but it’s a stretch.

All the Kind Strangers is a small-screen Deliverance, yet it has some fine acting from Keach and Eggar. It’s restrained, but there is more not seen than seen that makes this movie slightly scary.

You can watch this on Tubi.