Name: LET’S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH (1971)
Start: 2025-10-05T15:00:00-05:00
Location: 5228 Gravois Ave, St Louis, MO 63116-2310, United States, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63116

$LET\u2019S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH (1971)$

“THE PERFECT MOOD. Eeriness that bathes in a transient vampire lake of surreal dread, deliberately paced, and oozing with psychological macabre madness.” – Ian West
Inspired by Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, John D. Hancock’s LET’S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH is the ultimate early-70s slow-horror jam. This moody, dreamlike tale of a woman recently released from a mental institution who finds herself haunted either by a woodland vampire or her own madness is drenched in floral-patterned dread. Featuring a twitchy, deeply felt performance by Zohra Lampert and an eerily spare synthesizer score, JESSICA upends so many clichés of horror filmmaking, finding terror in small moments: an enigmatic smile, a farmhouse obscured by mist, the reflection of the sun on a lake. With its quietly feminist depiction of mental illness and its jaded embodiment of post-hippie malaise, JESSICA is at once a time capsule of early-70s America and a timeless tale of terror.

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5228 Gravois Ave, St Louis, MO 63116-2310, United States, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63116, 5228 Gravois Ave, St Louis, MO 63116-2310, United States, Southhampton

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