Leave your insanity at the door…
Falling somewhere in the vicinity of films like
Carnival of Souls and Jacob’s Ladder,
LET’S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH
doesn’t reach the heights those two films arrive at,
but it is aiming for those same things.
Dreamy, creepy, reality-bending sequences.
A sense of paranoia and persecution
mixed with reality-warping.
You get the idea.
Jessica is a woman who has been released from a psychiatric facility into the care of her husband and friend and in order to help her recuperate they move to a remote farm. A young woman named Emily is living there when they arrive and they invite her to stay if she wishes.
Soon, Jessica thinks she sees a body below the surface when she goes for a swim in the nearby pond. She also sees other strange things among the townspeople and in the local graveyard. When they interact with the villagers, they learn that a woman named Abigail Bishop drowned in the pond and her body was never recovered. Local lore also has it that the Bishop woman is now a vampire who roams the countryside.
It isn’t long before Jessica and her friends wonder if she isn’t losing her mind. And the audience gets put in the same state of mind. In fact, the whole feel of the picture lends itself to that.
Another thing this one put me in the mind of was a lot of the 70s Italian and French trippy horror hippy films of the same ilk. It may be just a 70s thing, a low budget thing, a gonzo filmmaking thing, a sexual revolution thing. But, yeah, definitely one of those things.
It's a fun trip to the movies, here's the trailer for your edification...
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