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Doesn’t feel fully like a Ken Russell film — it’s his first Hollywood film and he was brought in as a last-minute replacement. But at the same time, it feels like a film that could only have been made by Ken Russell. It’s a daft, druggy story that could have been so silly in lesser hands, but Russell is in full flight here and navigates the trippy stuff perfectly.
Watching it now, I realise how much Poltergiest parallels with this film, except in this film the haunted house is William Hurt himself.