Deborah B
I read the book and saw the movie back in the 70's, enjoyed the movie and the acting so much that I watched again in the 80's and now want to see it again. Even though it is old, I believe the storyline will still hold up in this 21st century. I never saw it as a horror film, more like a thriller.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
03/06/23
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Charlton H
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud is a great movie. I love the way the movie uses dreams to flash back to the past and remind Peter of his former life. The movie shows the dilemma of trying to get people to believe you if you, and the dilemma of proving it to yourself that you had a former life. There are parts of the movie, with implications I think some might find objectionable, (I won't spoil it) but I found the overall movie about reincarnation interesting along with it's plot twists. It reminded me a little of how sci fi movies have to deal with the paradoxes of time travel and how no one would believe you if you told them your were a time traveler.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
09/12/22
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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.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
02/06/23
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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.
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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
02/20/21
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Probably not a movie a deacon in the church should have let his children watch.
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
01/12/23
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delysid d
its a far out film about the occult
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
05/17/20
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