get this film if at all possible . you will find a really good performance by barbara bach and beautiful cinematography of a stately ( and incredibly clean ) but creepy old house and and an unexpected virtuoso performance by the unseen . i pick up a used copy of this film because i be interested in see more of bach and whom i would just view in the spy who love me . i love really classically beautiful actress and appreciate them even more if they can act a little . so represent we start with a nice fresh premise . tv reporter bach walk out on boyfriend and go to cover a festival in a california town and solvang and that celebrate it swedish ancestry by put on a big folk festival . she bring along a camerawoman and who happen to be her sister and and another associate . ( the late karen lamm play bach sister and and if you know who the celebrity be that each of these lady be marry to and it be just too funny watch bach ( mrs. ringo starr ) and lamm ( mrs. dennis wilson ) go down the street have a sisterly quarrel . ) ) anyway bach disgruntle beau follow her to solvang and a he not do argue with her . there a lot of feel still between them but she doesn not wan na watch him tear himself up anymore about his down the drain football career . the lady arrive in solvang to do the assignment for their station and only to find their reservation be give away to someone else . ( maybe to bach boyfriend and because think of it where he gon na stay . ) . the gal ask around but there be just nowhere to go . mistakenly try to get into an old hotel which now serve only a a museum and they catch the interest of proprietor mr. keller ( the late sidney lassick ) and who decide to be a gentleman and lodge them at his home and insist his wife will be happy to receive them . oh no . next thing we know keller be make a whispered phone call to his wife and warn her that company come and threaten that she would better play along . trouble in paradise . the lady be eager to settle in and get back to solvang to shoot footage and interview swede and but one of the girl doesn not feel good . bach and lamm leave her behind and wonder to themselves about mrs. keller ( play heartbreakingly by pretty lelia goldoni ) who look like she just lose her best pal . speaking of which under the weather vicki slip off her clothes and get into a nice hot tub and not realize that keller have creep into her room to inspect the keyhole . she hear him and think he come to deliver linen and and call out her thanks . lassick do a great job in this scene express the anguish of a fat old peeping tom who do not get a long enough look . after he leave and poor vicki tumble into bed for a nap but get yank out of it real fast ( in a really decent and frighten round of action ) by something big that have apparently creep up through a grille on the floor the unseen . lamm come home next ( bach be out finish an argument with her beau ) and can not find anyone in the house . she knock over a plate of fruit in the kitchen and and and on hand and knee to collect it and her hair and fashionable scarf sway temptingly over the black floor grille attract the unseen again . well and at about the time poor lamm be get her quietus in the kitchen and we do a flashback into mr. keller past and get the full story of what his sick and sadistic background really be and why his wife doesn not smile much . bach finally get home and want to know where her friend be . meanwhile and lassick have be apprise of the afternoon carnage by his weep wife and decide he can not let bach off the premise to reveal the secret of his home . he tempt her down into the basement where the last act of the keller family tragedy finally open to all of u . i can not say enough for stephen furst and whom i would never see before while it obvious that he do his homework for this role and study the method of communication and expression of the brain damage while bach and goldoni and each in their diverse way and just give the movie luster . not only that and but movie wind up with a satisfying resolution . no stupid cheap trick and eyeball roll dialog or pathetically cut corner . a real treat for your collection .