Burnt Offerings (film)

Burnt Offerings
Theatrical release poster by Tom Jung
Directed by	Dan Curtis
Written by	Dan Curtis William F. Nolan
Based on	Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco
Produced by	Dan Curtis Robert Singer
Starring	Karen Black Oliver Reed Burgess Meredith Eileen Heckart Lee H. Montgomery Dub Taylor Bette Davis
Cinematography	Jacques R. Marquette
Edited by	Dennis Virkler
Music by	Bob Cobert
Production companies	Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA) Dan Curtis Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	August 25, 1976 (1976-08-25)[1]
Running time	116 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2 million[2]
Box office	$1.56 million[3]

Burnt Offerings is a 1976 American supernatural horror film co-written and directed by Dan Curtis and starring Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Bette Davis, and Lee H. Montgomery, with Eileen Heckart, Burgess Meredith and Anthony James in supporting roles. It is based on the 1973 novel of the same name by Robert Marasco.^[4] The plot follows a family who begins to interpersonally dissolve under supernatural forces in a large estate they have rented for the summer.

Produced by Alberto Grimaldi's Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA), Burnt Offerings was filmed on location at the historic Dunsmuir House in Oakland, California. It was given a domestic limited theatrical release through United Artists in August 1976, which expanded later that fall. While the film received mixed reviews from critics, it won several awards in 1977. In the years since its release, the film has been analyzed by film scholars as a commentary on materialism and the dissolution of the American family.