The Hearse (1980)

The Hearse compares rather unfavorably with The Changeling, a haunted house movie that came out the previous year and also featured Trish Van Devere. Ms. Van Devere here plays a recently divorced school teacher who decides to spend her summer vacation in the country at the house of her late aunt. It turns out the locals in the small town of Blackford are none to friendly, for the most part, and there are odd, clichéd supernatural happenings at the old house as well. In his review of the movie Roger Ebert stated that The Hearse is a great example of 'the idiot plot', which is a plot where everyone has to act like idiots for it work. *1/2