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.
The Legacy
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- United Kingdom,
- United States
- 1978
- · 102m
Director
Richard Marquand
Cast
Katharine Ross,
Sam Elliott,
Roger Daltrey,
John Standing,
Ian Hogg,
Margaret Tyzack
Genre
Horror
Sam Elliott and Katharine Ross star as architects brought to a secluded estate by an eccentric millionaire. They and other guests become trapped, leading to a series of grisly deaths which point to a supernatural…
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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 by Tom Shales
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.
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