(Richard Marquand/1978/UK & USA)
A wilfully ludicrous horror about
a satanic pact bequeathed through generations via a convoluted ritual, which is
just one of many things in The Legacy that doesn’t quite gel. However, the
amount of narrative loop the looping lends an unintended comedy to the film and
makes it an entertaining diversion. There is a sequence of death scenes, each
more risible than the last, leading to the ‘big reveal’; as vacuous and airy as
the plot holes on show. The scene of Sam
Elliot and Katherine Ross driving down country lanes and ending back at the
house they wish to get away from, a common horror trope of geographical misdirection,
also verges on Carry On horror territory. All in all The Legacy is a great
example of accidental entertainment; it gets about as close to being spooky and
chilling as Wylie Coyote does to catching the Roadrunner.
(2.5/5)
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