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The Reincarnation of Peter Proud

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Professor Peter Proud (Michael Sarrazin) keeps having a nightmare in which he watches a mysterious woman in a rowboat commit murder. He tries his college's dream lab for help, but the real breakthrough comes when he recognizes locations from his dream in a documentary about Massachusetts. He travels there and meets Marcia (Margot Kidder), the woman from his dream, and her daughter, Ann (Jennifer O'Neill), with whom he falls in love. Could he be the reincarnation of Marcia's dead husband?

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Patrick Gibbs Daily Telegraph (UK) Feb 26
Ghost story or thriller? Neither author nor director, J. Lee Thompson, seems to have made up his mind. Go to Full Review
Brian Orndorf Blu-ray.com Mar 12
B-
Thompson is committed to inspecting every square foot of the developing intrigue, even if it means bringing the picture to a full stop, which he does on multiple occasions. Go to Full Review
Russell Davies Observer (UK) Feb 27
People love the idea of coming back, and The Reincarnation of Peter Proud exploits it just well enough to do good business. A moment's reflection, though, reveals it to be nonsense, and J. Lee Thompson's direction leaves plenty of reflecting time. Go to Full Review
Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com 08/25/2020
2/5
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud is unbelievably dated. Despite being handsomely shot by Victor J. Kemper and featuring a moody score by Jerry Goldsmith, Ehrlich's script fails to play to its strengths. Go to Full Review
Jacoba Atlas Los Angeles Free Press 12/04/2019
Put together like a puzzle, the film offers some honest-to-god terror while deftly side-stepping possible larger issues in favor of straight-out entertainment. Go to Full Review
Bernard Drew Gannett News Service 10/05/2019
Things can only end in lurid, turgid claptrap melodrama, and you may rest assured that things do. Go to Full Review
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04/25/2022 Based on the 1973 novel by Max Ehrlich, who adapted it for the screenplay, The Reincarnation of Peter Proud is about, well, Peter Proud (Michael Sarrazin). He's a college professor who keeps dreaming of a man being murdered by Marcia (Margot Kidder), as well as another woman and places that he comes to learn are another life. He's driving his girlfriend Nora nuts with all his ranting of reincarnation, his doctors have no answers and a documentary on TV leads him to Massachusettes, where he begins to travel to the places he has only seen in dreams, meeting an older Marcia and falling in love with her daughter Ann (Jennifer O'Neill, The Psychic), despite everything in the movie leading you to believe that he's her father. In fact, he admits that he is to Marcia, which pretty much seals his fate. But hey -- reincarnation! Director J. Lee Thompson had a long and pretty great career, starting in the 1950s with movies like The Weak and the Wicked and Yield to the Night, which were written by his second wife Joan Henry. He's best known for The Guns of Navarone, Cape Fear, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, The Evil That Men Do and Happy Birthday to Me. He would work for Cannon Films for the last movies of his career, with stand outs like 10 to Midnight, The Ambassador, King Solomon's Mines, Murphy's Law, Firewalker, Death Wish 4: The Crackdown, Messenger of Death and Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects. This was a pretty big movie when released, but isn't that well remembered, at least in America. It was remade as Karz in India, which has been remade several times. Then again, reincarnation always makes more sense in India. See more 02/20/2021 I’ve been rewatching movies from my youth and this was a pleasant surprise. From the moody score to the slowly unveiling mystery, and the true shock of the ending, I enjoyed it. It’s got amazing performances from the leads. The pacing is measured especially in the early going, but it’s worth a watch. Again. See more 11/12/2020 Probably not a movie a deacon in the church should have let his children watch. See more delysid d 05/17/2020 its a far out film about the occult See more 12/23/2019 Great horror! The movie is a total creep-out, albeit with its now-dated (1975) styles, attitudes and ways of doing things without the internet to aid our information-lives. Critics hate it, audiences love it. See! See more 06/28/2017 Boi-oi-oi-oi-oiiiiiing! See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Professor Peter Proud (Michael Sarrazin) keeps having a nightmare in which he watches a mysterious woman in a rowboat commit murder. He tries his college's dream lab for help, but the real breakthrough comes when he recognizes locations from his dream in a documentary about Massachusetts. He travels there and meets Marcia (Margot Kidder), the woman from his dream, and her daughter, Ann (Jennifer O'Neill), with whom he falls in love. Could he be the reincarnation of Marcia's dead husband?
Director
J. Lee Thompson
Production Co
Bing Crosby Productions, Fuqua Industries, Cinerama Productions Corp.
Rating
R
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 44m