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The Hearse - Movie Poster Print Style A - 27" x 40" (approx.)
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The Hearse (1980)Dircted by George Bowers
Not only has Jane Hardy recently got divorced, but her mother has just died too. Times have been hard for the school teacher and so it is little wonder that she has had a few mental problems. It is also probably not surprising that she feels like getting away from things for a while and she decides to take a vacation at her aunt's house. Jane's aunt died over thirty years ago and since then the house has stood empty. The house is situated in the small back-water town of Blackford and even after driving all day it is dark before she arrives there. As she is approaching the town, however, Jane has an encounter with a creepy, old hearse that nearly runs her off the road. The house remains pretty much just as Jane's aunt left it and her portrait still hangs on the wall. She looks an awful lot like Jane as it happens. She also seems to be haunting her old home and at one point, while Jane is cleaning an upstairs window, she looks into the room and sees her aunt starring back at her. Poor Jane gets such a shock that she very nearly falls off her ladder and, watching this, I very nearly had an accident of my own.
The local townsfolk seem less than friendly towards the new arrival and the fact that she looks so much like her aunt probably doesn't help matters. Jane does not know the full story about her aunt though and it is only when she finds an old diary and starts to read it that she begins to get a picture of her aunt's life and discovers that she was involved in Satanism.
Jane has other things to worry her though, apart from the
contents of her aunt's diary. She has had several encounters with the
hearse, it even pays late-night visits to her home and the hearse's driver
is one creepy-looking dude. I, for one, would not like to meet him in any
dark alleyways. Scary! At one point the hearse actually does succeed in
running Jane off the road and her car gets stuck in the soft soil.
Fortunately though, another car comes around the corner and the driver, a
man named Tom, stops and gives her a lift home. He even drops by the
next day to return her car to her. Jane is very attracted to her
knight in shining armour and a romance develops between them, which seems
to mirror her aunt's romance, as described in the diary. I enjoyed watching The Hearse and found myself jumping in my seat more than once. There is no blood or gore, nor is there a lot in the way of special effects either, but it really is quite a scary film, if a little predictable in places. My main problem with the film is the way that it ends and I felt really let down (oh, is that it!). It is one of those endings where it almost looks like the producers have run out of ideas or just had no idea whatsoever of where they were meant to be going with the story in the first place. Even though the ending is so poor though, The Hearse is still a film that I would quite happily watch again sometime because it is so creepy that it is hard for me not to love it.
CAST Trish Van Devere ... Jane
Hardy David Gautreaux ... Tom
Sullivan Christopher McDonald ...
Pete Al Hansen ... Bo Rehnquist Allison Balson ... Alice
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