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Released
1976 · FILM

Burnt Offerings

A desperate family rents an isolated manor for a summer retreat, only to battle a malevolent presence that slowly consumes their sanity and threatens to claim them forever.

“Up the ancient stairs, behind the locked door, something lives, something evil, from which no one has ever returned.”

Directed by
Dan Curtis
Written by
Robert Marasco, William F Nolan
Runtime
116 min
HorrorMysteryThriller
Streaming on
  • MGM+

Synopsis

A family relocates to a large, old mansion in the countryside, which appears to exert a mysterious and sinister influence over its new inhabitants.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Dennis VirklerShot by Jacques R MarquetteScored by Bob CobertDesigned by Eugene Lourie

Box Office

1976 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$1.6M

Budget$2.0M
Worldwide gross$1.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Das Landhaus der toten Seelende
  • Landhaus der toten Seelende
  • Pesadilla diabólicaes
  • Traumafr
  • Ballata macabrait

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