exellent script, great acting, outstanding thriller for its era. You have to remember this was a time when there were no fx tech like computer graphics, digital editing, etc. Worth watching.

I'm keeping in mind that I first saw this movie back in the 1970's and found it scary. With that perspective in mind I bump up my rating. I tend to rate old movies keeping in mind the time period they came from. If I was to rate some older movies by today's standards I might rate unfairly. However I've seen movies today that are not as good as movies from the past. I have a love/hate thing for CGI and think that Hollywood and TV shows are way too addicted to it as a crutch. You know fantastic visuals but lacking in writing and/or the visuals take focus off the point of the movie. Also all too often the cut between realality and cgi looks fake and cartoonish. In the old days props and costumes may have looked fake or cheap but at least everything in the show as made out of real material. All too often today when they introduces a CGI character into a real life background it looks even more fake than some old rubber mask would in the old days. Anyway, I give this movie a 4 star though I think that even back then they could have toned down the loud shock sounds.