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  • 1979
  • R
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 1979
  • R
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 42 m

Summary A millionaire, a million-dollar prostitute, a star-maker, a nation-killer, a woman whose lusts are as cold as graveyard snow. Five of the most powerful people in the world, and Maggie (Katharine Ross) makes six, gather in an ancient mansion to inherit a Legacy of bloodsome horror.

Directed By: Richard Marquand

Written By: Jimmy Sangster, Patrick Tilley, Paul Wheeler

  • 1979
  • R
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 1979
  • R
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 42 m

The Legacy

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Summary A millionaire, a million-dollar prostitute, a star-maker, a nation-killer, a woman whose lusts are as cold as graveyard snow. Five of the most powerful people in the world, and Maggie (Katharine Ross) makes six, gather in an ancient mansion to inherit a Legacy of bloodsome horror.

Directed By: Richard Marquand

Written By: Jimmy Sangster, Patrick Tilley, Paul Wheeler

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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50
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.
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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.
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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]
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The Legacy tries for an added dimension of satanic possession, but winds up a tame, suspenseless victim of its own lack of imagination.
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25
Dry, dull, and terribly predictable.
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Production Company David Foster Productions, Pethurst Ltd., Turman-Foster Company
Release Date Sep 14, 1979
Duration 1 h 42 m
Rating R
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Tagline There is horror...there is terror...beyond them, there is THE LEGACY.
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