Let's Scare Jessica to Death

Let's Scare Jessica to Death
Credits
Title:	Let's Scare Jessica to Death
Directed by:	John Hancock
Written by:	Ralph Rose Norman Jonas
Produced by:	Charles B. Moss, Jr. William Badalato
Music by:	Orville Stoeber
Cinematography:	Bob Baldwin
Edited by:	Murray Solomon
Production
Distributors:	Paramount Pictures
Released:	August 27th, 1971
Rating:	PG
Running time:	89 min.
Country:	USA
Language:	English
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Let's Scare Jessica to Death is an American feature film of the psychological thriller genre. It was directed by John Hancock with a screenplay written by Ralph Rose and Norman Jonas. It was produced by Paramount Pictures and released theatrically in the United States on August 27th, 1971. The movie stars Zohra Lampert as Jessica - a mental patient who has just been released from a mental institution. Her husband Duncan, played by Barton Heyman, brings her to a farmhouse in Connecticut, but mysterious things begin occurring resulting in Jessica questioning her sanity once again. The movie co-stars Kevin O'Connor as Woody, Gretchen Corbett as "The Girl", Alan Manson as Sam Dorker, and Mariclare Costello as Emily.

Cast

Actor	Role
Zohra Lampert	Jessica
Barton Heyman	Duncan
Kevin O'Connor	Woody
Gretchen Corbett	The Girl
Alan Manson	Sam Dorker
Mariclare Costello	Emily

Notes & Trivia

• Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971) redirects to this page.

• The tagline for this film is "Something is after Jessica. Something very cold, very wet... and very dead..."

• Production on Let's Scare Jessica to Death began on October 16th, 1970.
• There are only six credited cast members in this movie.

• Director John D. Hancock is credited as John Hancock and Ralph Rose in this film.

• Screenwriter Lee Kalcheim is credited as Norman Jones in this film.

• Producer Bill Badalato is credited as William Badalato in this film.

• Director of photography Robert M. Baldwin is credited as Bob Baldwin in this film.

• The central setting for this film is Connecticut. The movie was shot primarily in the city of Chester. The exterior of the farmhouse was filmed in Old Saybrook. The interior of the house was filmed at the Dickinson Estate in Essex.

• This film references the 1968 horror movie classic Night of the Living Dead by director George Romero.

• Although the legend of a vampire is chronicled in this film, there are no actual vampires in the movie.

• Actors Barton Heyman and Zohra Lampert have both appeared in movies in the Exorcist film series. Baron appeared in The Exorcist and Lampert appeared in The Exorcist III.

• Actor Barton Heyman also appeared in the 1987 drama Weeds which was written and directed by John D. Hancock.

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See also

• Psycho-Thriller films category

External Links

• Let's Scare Jessica to Death at AMG
• Let's Scare Jessica to Death at TCM
• Let's Scare Jessica to Death at IMDB
• Let's Scare Jessica to Death at Wikipedia
• Let's Scare Jessica to Death at Rotten Tomatoes

References

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