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A girl moves to a small town with her mom, only to be compared to a legendary witch with the same name.A girl moves to a small town with her mom, only to be compared to a legendary witch with the same name.A girl moves to a small town with her mom, only to be compared to a legendary witch with the same name.
Ron Sauvé
- Gas Station Attendant
- (as Ron Sauve)
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Did you know
- TriviaSarah Chalke and Markie Post would later play mother and daughter again on Sarah's show Scrubs.
- Quotes
Eric Garrett: Speaking of parties, I'm having one and we'd like to invite you as the official guest of honor.
Sarah Zoltanne: Why? So you and your little "descendants club" can burn me at the stake and roast marshmallows by the fire?
- ConnectionsReferences Backdraft (1991)
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Passable, but extremely tame horror film is best for younger genre fans.
Single mom Rosemary Zoltanne (Markie Post) and her smart-ass teen daughter Sarah (Sarah Chalke) move from L.A. to a big house in Massachusetts where a witch was burned at the stake 300 years earlier. Sarah makes friends with a geeky outsider (Ben Foster) but also attracts the attention of teen members of the "Descendant's Club"-- obnoxious jocks (led by Christian Campbell, brother of Neve) and the high school bitch queens (led by Soleil Moon Frye) who think she's the reincarnation of the dead witch. Sarah gets harassing phone calls ("I've been waiting for you!") and a masked killer with a steel claw lurks around.
This is resolutely typical post SCREAM/I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER fare (supposedly from the "author" of the latter) with offscreen violence, but the performances are surprisingly good and it's watchable, though it all seems like a big build-up to nothing by the end.
I didn't know it at the time when I rented the video, but frequent fade-outs to black and someone credited with the teleplay soon made me realize I'd rented a TV movie that was inexplicably (and erroneously!) rated R to bulk up it's distribution value. Don't be expecting to find gore, nudity or four-letter words in this film.
This is resolutely typical post SCREAM/I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER fare (supposedly from the "author" of the latter) with offscreen violence, but the performances are surprisingly good and it's watchable, though it all seems like a big build-up to nothing by the end.
I didn't know it at the time when I rented the video, but frequent fade-outs to black and someone credited with the teleplay soon made me realize I'd rented a TV movie that was inexplicably (and erroneously!) rated R to bulk up it's distribution value. Don't be expecting to find gore, nudity or four-letter words in this film.
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- capkronos
- Jul 9, 2003
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By what name was I've Been Waiting for You (1998) officially released in Canada in English?
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