Blind, incredibly wealthy Tom Simcox keeps getting phone calls from his mother. She has been dead for some time, but possessed of a fear of being entombed while still alive, had a phone installed in her crypt. Simcox's wife, Diane Baker, seeks out architect and skeptical ghost hunter Martin Landau to find out what is going on. Does this link to an earlier case of murder-by-ghost that turned out to be poisoning?
It's a very well cast and run little spooky movie, originally intended as a pilot for a TV anthology series. Landau's intelligence and low-affect performance serve it well, and writer-director Joseph Stefano has a good arc of what starts out as atmosphere, and bursts into something more disquieting. With Judith Anderson and Nellie Burt.
It's a very well cast and run little spooky movie, originally intended as a pilot for a TV anthology series. Landau's intelligence and low-affect performance serve it well, and writer-director Joseph Stefano has a good arc of what starts out as atmosphere, and bursts into something more disquieting. With Judith Anderson and Nellie Burt.