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The Legacy
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September 13, 2009 "Please retry" | Fall of Fear Version | — |
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Genre | Horror |
Format | Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC |
Contributor | Richard Marquand, Sam Elliott, Katharine Ross, Roger Daltrey |
Initial release date | 2009-08-30 |
Language | English |
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How far would you go to inherit everlasting life? When an American couple (Katharine Ross and Sam Elliott) have a mysterious car accident in the English countryside, the other driver offers to take them to his lavish country estate to make amends. But once there, the suspense deepens when they learn the other houseguests are expecting them! It's not long before the couple's fear turns to terror when the guests (including rock superstar Roger Daltrey) begin dying in unspeakable ways. Now it's clear the true master of the house is a supernatural force that will stop at nothing to find the rightful heirs for an unimaginably horrible legacy.
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 0.01 ounces
- Item model number : 2220233
- Director : Richard Marquand
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC
- Run time : 1 hour and 40 minutes
- Release date : August 30, 2009
- Actors : Katharine Ross, Sam Elliott, Roger Daltrey
- Subtitles: : Spanish, French
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 2.0)
- Studio : Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B00023P4U6
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #50,333 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #1,785 in Horror (Movies & TV)
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Many have stated that the ending is terrible. I can see their point. In fact every review I've read has stated this point to some degree and if I didn't get the ending and its message the way I do, I would be forced to agree with them but there is something malevolent and clever about the ending that bothers me. It makes me uneasy and I'm convinced that if every viewer saw this ending in the light I see it in, they would probably feel uneasy too. Watch the film. When you're finished, read ahead in this review.
If you have not seen this film...STOP READING...SPOILERS AHEAD.
I believe the female lead character is possessed. Within the space of 24 hours she transforms from a person who cannot live with herself at the idea of being responsible for the deaths of others as well as having a near nervous breakdown at the idea of being part of a Satanic cult (not being able to take the ring off, her obvious discomfort when asking the other guests if they're into witchcraft, & when she's being drawn back into the mansion she says to her man that perhaps she was influenced by magic or a dark force) to becoming someone who brags about having "the power" and fully accepting her role in the service of her dark Lord. Remember there is a clear place in the film where she begins to appear numb from the evil around her. This numbness eventually turns to acceptance. In the final ceremony she takes the dying man's power into her. You can almost see her change from being slightly apprehensive about what she needs to do and be to becoming someone who is in charge, confident, and deeply pleased about the idea of serving Satan. This is a dramatic shift that I cannot discredit or ignore. But this is not my point. My point is this. She gives the ring to her man knowing he now has a 16.67% chance of being murdered by her. She doesn't tell him as that's the rule. She willingly puts him in this position and you can clearly see how she is the one in charge of things now. I get the impression that due to her sudden personality shift which has changed her feelings about everything in her life (including her boyfriend), she knows she may eventually kill him and she's fine with that.
All of these conclusions come from watching her body movements, eyes, gestures, and listening closely to her words. She is not even close to the same woman as she was at the beginning of the film and I wonder if in time he would ever put together who killed the other 5 in that house and begin to feel the noose tightening around his own neck.
When you see the ending in that light, I feel it adds a merciless, quiet brutality to her character. This changes the ending for me as a whole. It makes the male lead character vulnerable and even despite his understandings, helpless to a woman that has changed so cleverly that he may never recognize it. The ending of the movie may depict people smiling, but the true ending for Sam Elliott's character is something else altogether, perhaps bloody.
One final point. One can say that she tries to stop her boyfriend from making the final shot to kill the assassin on the rooftop because if Sam Elliott's character had killed him, Elliott's character may be doomed just like the recent five victims were doomed to die in the same ironical fashions as they had killed. It's possible, even before her final ceremony as she watches her man do battle on the lawn that she's already planned out that he will be one of her 6 captains. It is this point I would be in total agreement. However, the sinister nature of her character at the end is so sudden and heavy I can't help but think that in time, perhaps a great deal of time, once her cruelty has had time to ferment and take shape, if another person comes along who is more promising an heir to "The Legacy", Sam Elliott's character won't last long by her will whether he's killed anyone or not.
After a brief introduction to the other characters, they are slowly bumped off in creatively vicious ways that recall THE OMEN from 2 years earlier. Actually this basic premise is taken from Agatha Christie's TEN LITTLE INDIANS only with the addition of American characters for an American audience. The original script was by Hammer Films veteran Jimmy Sangster but it was amended on several different occasions causing him to quip that he was well paid for a script he didn't write (his name is still on the credits). Universal Pictures who financed and released the film wound up treating THE LEGACY as if it were a glorified TV movie hence the inappropriate soundtrack which would not have been out of place on an episode of McMILLAN & WIFE. Still the film looks gorgeous and the final product was put together by one of England's premiere film editors, Anne V. Coates.
I find THE LEGACY to be a favorite guilty pleasure. Once at the Manor House, the film settles into an effective routine. It's not exactly a mystery as we already know who is doing it, we just don't know why but as with any good mystery, all is revealed in the end. The movie is full of little touches like the disappearing chauffeur or the appearances of the white cat that add to the viewer's enjoyment. It also contains that rarest of rarities, male nudity instead of female nudity although it's handled in a casual, offhand manner typical of the era. Don't think too hard about THE LEGACY, just sit back and enjoy it. Director Richard Marquand would go on to do THE RETURN OF THE JEDI. When asked about the film some years later, Sam Elliot said that he wouldn't stay up late to catch it. Mystery/horror fans and more than a few ladies might disagree. The DVD image is excellent.