Let's Scare Jessica to Death 4K 1971 Ultra HD 2160p

Jessica has just been released from a psychiatric hospital. Her husband decides that fresh air is necessary for her complete recovery and moves with Jessica and a friend to a recently purchased country house. As they approach the house, Jessica begins to hear voices and see strange visions, but she thinks it's just her imagination and hides it from the others. It turns out that the house is not empty. A charming homeless hippie girl named Emily has taken up residence there. Jessica feels sorry for Emily and begs her to stay. It will be more fun together. And Emily is indeed fun; she is the life of the party and plays the guitar beautifully. But why does she look so much like the girl in the old portrait hanging in the house? Why are all the residents of the neighboring small town behaving so strangely? Perhaps it is just Jessica's sick imagination, or maybe not...

User Review
It seems that horror movie makers will never stray from haunted houses, which is understandable—where else can you come up with so many different scary stories? The story of young Jessica does not stray from the usual plot twists, but nevertheless has a certain inexplicable appeal.

From the very beginning of the film, the viewer understands that Jessica is clearly not of this world. Later, we learn that she underwent rehabilitation in a psychiatric clinic, but medication is much less effective than self-hypnosis, so our heroine often persuades herself to remain calm and not show any signs when she experiences auditory and visual hallucinations. However, she manages to do this quite well, but the fact remains that Jessica is different from everyone else and sees things that no one else can see.

Another interesting character who appears at the very beginning of the film, Emily, almost immediately gives the viewer some rather unpleasant thoughts, especially after she casts unambiguous glances at the men accompanying Jessica, one of whom, incidentally, is her husband. Then events take a very strange turn: Jessica cannot contain her emotions when, walking through a cemetery (also a strange pastime), she notices a girl in a white dress who leads her to the corpse of the owner of a local antique shop. And all that follows—Jessica's husband thinks she's crazy when the corpse disappears without a trace, and he starts to take an interest in Emily, whom Jessica herself asked to stay with them if she had nowhere else to go. The relationships between absolutely all the characters become entangled in a complicated web, and only Emily feels great. That is, until the terrible secret of the house is revealed—a tragedy!

What stands out first and foremost is Jessica's incorruptible straightforwardness and terrifying charm without any extraordinary mystery—she is clearly mentally ill, and no one is going to argue with that. The title fully justifies its content, and, to be honest, this is completely satisfying. Here, the viewer simply watches in amazement, hoping for at least some explanation, but then everything becomes even more complicated, and we, like Jessica herself, simply try to make sense of what is happening: corpses? Ghosts? Vampires? What else will this film bring us?

The atmosphere of horror is created in a simply stunning way: it's been a long time since I've felt this anxious feeling of anticipation of something scary. This is despite the fact that the film is clearly not focused on the visuals, but rather on the self-suggestion of the viewers — as if to say, hold on, it's going to be scary now. And this move works 100%! However, it is worth mentioning some moments that initially escaped the viewer's attention and remained unclear until the very end. For example, what role did the girl in the white dress who met Jessica play?

However, credit must be given to the creators: despite the somewhat strange behavior of the film's characters (especially Jessica's enigmatic smile even in moments of fear, which can only be explained by her unstable psyche), the film turned out to be an excellent horror movie, capable even after so many years of making the viewer not just watch and forget, but also try to understand the essence and answer the questions asked by Jessica in the finale. Overall, it's delightful.

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Codec: HEVC / H.265 (90.6 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1

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#English: FLAC 2.0
#English: Dolby Digital 2.0 (Commentary by director John Hancock and producer Bill Badalato (2019))
#English: Dolby Digital 2.0 (Commentary by director John Hancock; moderated by Justin LaLiberty (2025))
#English: Dolby Digital 2.0 (Commentary by authors Kim Newman and Sean Hogan (2025))
#English: FLAC 2.0 (Commentary by author Kim Newman and filmmaker Prano Bailey-Bond (2021))
#English: FLAC 2.0 (Commentary by film historian Kat Ellinger)

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