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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 0012236143147 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC Label: Live / Artisan Manufacturer: Live / Artisan Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Live / Artisan Release Date: August 19, 2003 Running Time: 96 minutes Sales Rank: 49414 Studio: Live / Artisan Theatrical Release Date: May 24, 1984
Rating: - Another old one from Craven.
Matt Winslow(Robert Urich) takes his family and move to California after landing a high position for a big corporation. They end up meeting a woman named Miss Jones(Susan Lucci) who owns a country club resort. Matt notices the changes in everyone who has joined the club and is very cautious of it. His wife on her own joins the club and Matt soon feels like a stranger in his own home.
I actually enjoyed this one. This isn't one of Craven's usual slashers that we know him so well for today. "Invitation to Hell" is a character driven movie that explores the depths of ones desires and ... Read More
Rating: - Immersive emotional family movie
Invitation to Hell is an unknown and clearly underrated movie, done with very little budget but yet so strong emotionally. IMO a master piece.
It basically evolves around family bounds and how it feels to see the ones you love becoming strangers to you.
About the score, another great composition from Sylvester Levay (author of AirWolf main theme TV series) very simple and very emotional, that contributes a lot in creating the atmosphere of the movie.
Hope you will enjoy this movie as much as I did.
A-Lin
Rating: - Robert Ulrich as Rosemary Woodhouse?
A true howler: "Invitation to Hell"; is an 80's shocker from Wes Craven before he hit it big with " A Nightmare on Elm Street". A mish-mash of "The Stepford Wives" and "Rosemary's Baby", it features Robert Urich and Joanna Cassidy as a couple who move into the the house seen previously in "Poltergeist" with their two kids so he can work on a new space suit that will be used by NASA to visit the superheated surface of Venus. It can also shoot lasers and has a built in flame-thrower, as well as have the ability to detect non-human life forms. For those of you who have never seen a movie before this ... Read More
Rating: - Decent and Different
This was not a typical slasher, or supernatural movie of the 80's. Wes Craven does a nice job with the creativity on this one. The story revoloves around a country club in california. The new family joining the club, is eluded into thinking that the "secret" part of the club is only for a select few, who are admired most amoung all the other club members. Susan Lucchi from the "All my children" is in this one, as the evil main characters, who may just be satan him/herself...
Rating: - morality tale - told through ice cold computer early 80's atmosphere
I find Invitation To Hell to be a strange and wonderful little flick. I remember the first time I watched it. It really sucked me into that cold, detached, materialistic atmosphere very well. Not like that's a place you want to visit other than with escapism.
And even though it was just Tv movie from 1984, the acting was very good (IMO) Even TV flicks from 20 years ago, carry way better acting than anything you'd see of similar ilk these days. I credit Wes Craven for his excellent directing skills and love of true, effective creepiness. Also credit Joanna Cassidy for an excellent turn ... Read More
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