

“Up the ancient stairs, behind the locked door, something lives, something evil, from which no one has ever returned.”
A family moves into a large old mansion in the countryside which seems to have a mysterious and sinister power over its new residents.
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$2,000,000
Revenue
$1,560,000

It took Peggy Heller a long time to recover from the trauma of a brutal physical assault, suffered in her youth. When she married Robert, he provided her with the love and reassurance she craved for and the two settled down in a pretty house in the grounds of the public school where Robert was a master. But the headmaster of the school is not what he seems and Peggy is convinced he means to harm her - is her fear a figment of her tortured imagination or are there forces at work that intend to manipulate her anxieties with fatal consequences?

Roz Allardyce
Burnt Offerings (1976)
Trailer
When Keira Woods' daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house in the country, she soon discovers there is an ancient and powerful entity controlling their home that she will have to face or risk losing her family's souls forever.