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A Name for Evil (1973)
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Bernard Girard (writer)
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The dream house that becomes a nightmare.
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Dissatisfied with the family architectural business, a man and his wife pack up and move out to his great-grandfather's old house in the country...
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What a mess!!!!
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(Complete credited cast) | Robert Culp | ... | John Blake |
 | Samantha Eggar | ... | Joanna Blake |
| Sheila Sullivan | ... | Luanna Baxter |
| Mike Lane | ... | Fats |
| Sue Hathaway | ... | Mary |
| Ted Greenhalgh | ... | Hugh |
| Clarence 'Big' Miller | ... | Jimmy |
| Barbara Tremain | ... | Mrs. Olson |
| Reg McReynolds | ... | Mr. Olson |
| Walter Marsh | ... | Minister |
| D. Goldrick | ... | Secretary |
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74 min
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Mountain Woman
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Like so many movies I've seen recently, A NAME FOR EVIL starts off promisingly but it quickly, and I mean QUICKLY, degenerates into a stunning mess. Once Robert Culp rides that horse and accidentally joins a a bunch of partying hippies who all shed their clothes and have an orgy all over the forest, the film self-destructs, literally. BOOM!!! The whole thing becomes stultifyingly, inexplicably bad. What were they thinking? The ending is the weirdest looking one I've ever seen (the whole moment of Samantha Eggar falling towards the ground). And the scene when Culp makes love under water has to be the worst conceived scene ever put on film. It's 100% fake looking. The film is very short (thank god), which only points out how the folks behind the camera had no idea what they were doing and wanted to end the whole thing fast.
But the odd thing about this seldom seen movie is that the cinematography is stunning. I love this kind of photography. As bad as everything else is in this disaster, I have to give credit to the DP. Had the cinematography been average or just bad, then I think I would qualify A NAME FOR EVIL as one of the worst films ever made.