help me ID this 70's ghost story movie

THIS IS IT. "Lets Scare Jessica to Death" -- that is IT! Many thanks
buddy! My glee has quickly been replaced with sadness, however, as
this apparently is not available on DVD (yet.) Were you able to
actually find the movie? Was it released to VHS only?
Thanks again !!!
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"cruciverbalist" wrote in message

> wrote:
>
>>I've done extensive searches for this movie can't seem to figure out
>>what it is. I saw it multiple times in the 1970s -- basically I
>>remember a group of friends staying in an old house next to a lake.
>>There was a ghost/spirit in the lake, I believe of a drowning victim.
>>I know the "main character" seemed to be one of the girls staying in
>>the house, at one point she's out on a boat and sees terrifying images
>>or shadows in the water. Ideas anyone?
>
> Sounds like "Ghost Story" (1981)

Not the right timeframe, but what you describe mimics the plot of the
fine little chiller 'Haunted' (1995) with Aidan Quinn & Kate Beckinsale
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> Tony, I'd really be interested in hearing about the list of OTHER
> movies that you came up with and thought were "creepy". (You said you
> hunted some down at some point?) I really think it would be cool to
> have a website somewhere out there in cyberspace where people simply
> compared what they liked, and people found new titles that they had
> never seen before simply by comparing lists from other people who liked
> some of the same things.

People do that on this newsgroup quite frequently. I've gotten alot of good
titles here.

Another good way to find movies is to go to Amazon.com with a title, look it
up, and then look at Amazon's sections called "Customers who bought this
video also bought:" and "Customers who viewed this video also viewed". IIRC,
that's how I found "Let's Scare Jessica to Death". For the last 3 or 4
years, I've been seeking out abstract movies that reuquire viewer
interpretation to make sense, and also creepy and/or mysterious movies, and
movies with twist endings. Here are some of my more obscure favorites:

"The Other" with Uta Hagen (a masterpiece, and it's a crime that it isn't
readily available on DVD [or VHS for that matter]).
"Santa Sangre" and "Fando y Lis" by Alejandro Jodorowski (also a
masterpieces).
"Performance" by Cammel and Roeg
"The Reflecting Skin"
"Hour of the Wolf" and "Persona" by Ingmar Bergman.
"The House with Laughing Windows" (super-scary and creepy Italian movie)
"Innocents with Dirty Hands" by Claude Chabrol
"Images" by Robert Altman

Here are some I like a little less but are still worth watching IMHO:
"Eyes Without a Face"
"Sisters" by Brian de Palma
"Kissed"
"Short Night of Glass Dolls"
"Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice"
"Who Saw Her Die?" (creepy Italian giallo)
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