The Legacy
Columbia-EMI-Warner | Release Date: September 14, 1979 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
31
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 5 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
2
Negative:
3

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
50
The New York TimesJohn Corry
A horror film that is not so much frightening as it is depressing. It is thin and dopey, which is perfectly O.K., but in place of invention it uses contrivance, and in place of imagination it uses shock. Read full review
40
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
A typically loony English-country-house horror from the pen of Jimmy Sangster, which dumps its statutory American leads (Katharine Ross and Sam Elliott) into a hardly-stirred plot-pot of diabolic conspiracy - and slowly congeals. Read full review
30
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
The Legacy tries for an added dimension of satanic possession, but winds up a tame, suspenseless victim of its own lack of imagination. Read full review
30
Washington PostTom Shales
Unfortunately, even for devotees of the derivative, Legacy has all the scarifyin' power of National Geographic. It is a gross, hollow and hokey joke in which even the red herrings prove anemic. [05 Oct 1979, p.B1]
25
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
Dry, dull, and terribly predictable. Read full review
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