House on Greenapple Road (1970)

Boring

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

i also saw this movie when younger (around 7 or 8) and like the other user comments, i remember one scene with blood all over the place in a house. it scared me so much at the time that i actually remembered the name of the movie, found it on IMDb and am now writing this comment. over the years i have remembered then forgotten again, but from time to time would search for it out of curiosity, as if to see if the movie was really the one i saw. I don't remember anything else, just that one haunting scene. there was something about the presentation of themovie/scene that was very realistic, unlike many movies today. it was like suburban nightmare behind close doors sort of image.

It's good to know that I'm not the only one who was freaked out by those chilling opening scenes! I too was a very young child when I saw this film, so I can scarcely recall any details...only that infamous kitchen footage. The title alone still gives me the creeps! It is definitely a shame that this movie is not shown on TV, and is apparently not available on VHS or DVD. I'd really love to watch it again to see if it holds up to my childhood memories! Sadly, I have a feeling it can't possibly be as frightening as I remember. Years of slasher film viewing have left me quite jaded. Perhaps I'll just read the book instead.

I probably haven't seen "House on Green Apple Road" (HOGAR) since its release (c. 1970, made-for-TV) but have been watching for it ever since. I saw it probably two or three times and can scarcely remember it in detail, but I have a strong desire to see it again and an even stronger desire to acquire it for my private viewing. (Like that'll happen! Only crap is available today, with some exceptions.) HOGAR has always stuck in my memory because it is so well done. Almost 100 times out of 100, no matter what, I can spot the culprit or the killer or guess the outcome in movies and books, but this was one of the exceptions that had me guessing until the denouemont. ("Sixth Sense" is another one, but it is not nearly as good a movie as HOGAR.) Janet Leigh is still really spectacular looking in this one and gives a first-rate performance -- this movie certainly makes one realize how utterly unappreciated Leigh was during her film hey-day. I can't recommend this movie highly enough. The blood and gore are tame, by today's standards, and nobody uses gratuituous four-letter-words or gratuitiously talks about "making love," ahem! -- but if that is not a priority for you I think you will enjoy it enormously.

I started watching this made for TV film partly because Janet Leigh was in it. I was surprised that it turned out to be a pretty good TV movie. Leigh plays a cheating wife who disappears and the men who she has been having affairs with come into question as her possible abductor/murderer etc. This film spun off into the Dan August TV series. Dan August is the plain clothes police officer assigned to crack the case and find the missing Janet Leigh character. Overall an entertaining picture. Janet Leigh looked good in a white bathing suit by the way.