A distraught mother must cope with her embittered daughter who has the ability to cause "accidents" to happen.
Acting
Lee Grant gives prestige-TV energy to bottom-shelf material.
Practical Effects
Charming low-budget telekinesis via obvious wirework.
Writing
Somehow released two years BEFORE Carrie—suspicious.
Director
Lee Phillips
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released November 1977, just months after De Palma's Carrie hit theatres—making this either prescient or embarrassingly rushed to capitalize.
Helen Hunt's film debut at 14—she survives the movie while playing the 'popular girl,' already defying horror conventions.
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