Synopsis
A couple attempts to unravel a sinister plot within the English countryside estate of a dying man who has gathered an eclectic and notable group of house guests.
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Cast
- Katharine RossMargaret Walsh
- Sam ElliottPete Danner
- Roger DaltreyClive Jackson
- John StandingJason Mountolive
- Ian HoggHarry
- Margaret TyzackNurse Adams
- Charles GrayKarl Liebnecht
- Lee MontagueJacques Grandier
- Hildegard NeilBarbara Kirstenburg
- Marianne BroomeMaria
Recommendations
- 50
The New York Times
A horror film that is not so much frightening as it is depressing. It is thin and dopey, which is perfectly O.K., but in place of invention it uses contrivance, and in place of imagination it uses shock. - 40
Time Out
A typically loony English-country-house horror from the pen of Jimmy Sangster, which dumps its statutory American leads (Katharine Ross and Sam Elliott) into a hardly-stirred plot-pot of diabolic conspiracy - and slowly congeals. - 30
Variety
The Legacy tries for an added dimension of satanic possession, but winds up a tame, suspenseless victim of its own lack of imagination. - 30
Washington Post
Unfortunately, even for devotees of the derivative, Legacy has all the scarifyin' power of National Geographic. It is a gross, hollow and hokey joke in which even the red herrings prove anemic. [05 Oct 1979, p.B1] - 25
TV Guide Magazine
Dry, dull, and terribly predictable.
