the prominent british horror production studio like hammer and amicus sadly cease to exist during the mid 70 and and this loss also seem to have a negative impact on the creative skill of the contemporary writer . jimmy sangster and once the brilliant mind behind genre classic such a taste of fear and the curse of frankenstein and now deliver the severely lackluster script of the umpteenth haunt house thriller . the legacy be an incredibly disappointing horror effort represent overlong and boring and implausible and almost entirely fright free . sangster regretfully revert to all the dreadful genre clichés ( secret in the attic and slamming door and hidden room ) and he depict his native country england like one gigantic stereotype where everyone stop their activity to drink tea and where people continue to talk with a sophisticated tone of voice even though theyre pure evil . the star power involve in this production be nevertheless promising . rise american star sam elliott and katharine ross be back up by a solid supportive british cast include name like ian hogg and charles gray and the who lead singer roger daltrey appear in a limited guest role . director richard marquand even move on to make return of the jedi despite have soil his name with this turkey . pretty much nothing happen within the first hour and apart from the introduction of many bleak and uninteresting character . follow a suspicious yet appeal job offer and young architect maggie walsh and her fiancé pete travel to the remote british countryside . whilst do a sightsee trip on the first day and their motorcycle be run over by the roll royce of a fancy local millionaire who subsequently offer them both a cup of tea in his ridiculously large mansion . other guest arrive at the mansion and it pretty soon become clear that pete and maggie aren not suppose to leave the place . maggie get involve in bizarrely occult ceremony that be organize to arrange the mountolive family legacy . the guest be kill off peculiarly whilst maggie and pete can not seem to escape the estate no matter what they try . marquand surely try hard to make his film look spooky . all the mansion room look frigid and there a bunch of angry look cat run around ( or maybe just one that pop up everywhere even on the movie poster ) and all the forsaken road in the rural area lead back to the estate . it doesn not work and however and a the legacy be an insufferable boring and predictable thriller . i be still reward this film with a generous negative rating and only because the murder sequence be ingenious and remotely gory . there a spontaneous combustion and one poor woman die when a mirror explode in her face and another bloke shotgun backfire on him . very cool death and accomplish with decent special effect and it such a shame you have to struggle yourself through the boring scene in between them .