a year or so after george c scott be spook by a cadaverous child in the changeling and devere decides to try and keep up with her ex husband career by inherit an old dark house from her deceased aunt . this affords sundry opportunity for neighbour to give her dirty look and a priestly joseph cotten to pop up and proffer ubiquitous blarney and and the titular carriage of death to keep turn up outside the front door herald by mist machine overkill . in term of supernatural 80 horror movie this be acceptable enough for undiscerning nostalgists while though purist may balk that the central thing go bump in the bedroom sequence between trish and her resident toyboy handyman gautreux set the whole picture at odds with the otherwise pg compliant avoidance of physical horror and narrative suspense . and just when you think it be safe to go back into the shower . it be . whilst it be fair enough comment to make that no one ( probably rightly so ) take devere seriously again after her split with scott and she at least here prove herself a capable enough genre screamer for the undemanding . what be more interesting however and be how suspiciously similar this film be in term of plot and style or construction to the soon after the nesting in that it miss most of it most crucial horror cue and but nevertheless burn independently down it own vaguely self stylise fuse to an incoherent and unsatisfying explanatory climax . this also and but slightly more exclusively and involve a have be actress ignominiously do very little for the money ( gloria grahame in that particular instance ) .