Blythe
Danner, Dennis Quaid, Kathleen Beller, Ellen Travolta
Less a horror film than a tame rape-revenge movie, Are You in the
House Alone? nonetheless uses some time-worn horror clichés
to get the job done, notably the 'babysitter alone in the big house getting
scary phonecalls' scenario. Some of these scenes are genuinely creepy, and
the subject matter is handled quite well, although being the seventies there
is still some creepy residual anti-feminist sentiment floating around (mostly
assigning the blame on the victim - not exactly progressive thinking). Blythe
Danner is spectacularly bitchy as the mother, and her handling
of the creepy caller is downright hilarious in a few scenes - this was the
woman for whom Xanex was invented. An early Dennis
Quaid proves as disposable as, well, an older Dennis Quaid. |
