This scared the bejesus out of me when I was 11--but then, I was 11, and back then the scary content kids saw was pretty mild. (Nobody then would have thought of taking young children to R-rated horror movies, unlike so many crappy parents now.) But finally seeing it again recently, it was disappointing how tepid it was. This was the first post-"Bewitched" project for Elizabeth Montgomery, who made some of the very finest TV movies but had an inauspicious start with this one. She plays a woman whose sister is trying to separate from her scary husband (George Maharis), and we know early on that sis has been killed by somebody....once Liz arrives at the sibling's isolated country home, a lot of cumbersome plot mechanizations pass before she realizes her sister is dead and her own life is in danger. Montgomery seems too intelligent and common-sensical to be completely at home in this stereotypical woman-in-peril scenario-- other TVM staples of the time like Donna Mills would have been more appropriate. Several of the other posters here seem to be reviewing the film based on their memories from decades ago--if I'd done the same I'd rate it highly. But having seen it again, I can safely say: Your memories seriously flatter what is just not a very good, or even entertainingly bad, movie.
Review of The Victim
