The Hearse
- Trish Van Devere: Jane Hardy
- Joseph Cotten: Walter Pritchard
- David Gautreaux: Robert Thomas Sullivan
- Donald Hotton: Reverend Winston
- Med Flory: Sheriff Denton
- Donald Petrie: Luke
- Christopher McDonald: Pete
- Perry Lang: Paul Gordon
The Hearse (Original: The Hearse ) is an American horror film directed by George Bowers of 1980 The screenplay for the film comes from Bill bleach. .
Action
The newly divorced and of a nervous breakdown convalescent teacher Jane Hardy, whose mother died recently, looking for relaxation from the stresses of everyday life far from civilization and therefore drives her small car into well-earned summer vacation. The goal of the mentally battered woman is the remote small village of Blackford in the countryside, where they will seek an inherited from her aunt's house, which is uninhabited for years. The house is considered since the strange disappearance of the corpse of her aunt as a haunted house.
To have been brought by the fierceness estate administrator Walter Pritchard, who believes his inheritance, Jane receives the keys to their property. The vacationer looks in her house but soon strange things that they can not initially agree. Because she sees her deceased aunt confusingly similar, it is shunned by the long-established residents, and even punished with contempt, as you once did her aunt Rebecca together with her lover, Robert, in conjunction with Satan. To make matters worse, that they will since their arrival in Blackford stalked and pursued by a sinister, black hearse. The teacher seems to feel quite uncomfortable in this position, but it tries undeterred settle in.. A little solace she finds in the acquaintance of the charming Tom Sullivan, a polite gentleman who begins to care for Jane and invites them frequently for various recreational activities.
The frightened and intimidated Jane will always haunted by visions of her deceased aunt 30 years ago, the then immortal fell in love with a man who was close to the forces of evil and urged them to join him. In addition, Jane has repeatedly uncanny clashes with the hearse. At first she accused Pritchard of intimidation to drive them, but at the latest by reading the diary of her ancestor, she discovers the true relationships. Her lover Tom turns out to be more powerful immortal villain who already once pulled her grandmother into the spell and now holds the lookout for a partner, which he believes to have found Jane. In addition, he reveals himself as the driver of that bizarre hearse.
At the end of the film succeeds in fleeing Jane, Tom push away along with his car off the road. The hearse then catches fire and burns out. However, what exactly happened with Tom and whether he survives, but the film as a whole remains guilty.
Reviews
"If you look really loses in this film [ ... ] can be a very fine, sometimes even a bit confusing [ ... ] mystery thriller discover who has mastered the fine art of goose bumps. Horror effects, there are almost none, but if you do not get paranoid of this movie, then you have not looked at it properly. The story is well constructed and of good piano soundtrack does its added the rest. "
" All the characters - and the props - behave as if they were going to play in a horror movie."