Summer of Fear

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Summer of Fear ★★ Stranger in Our House 1978

A happy young woman (Blair) must overcome evil forces when her cousin (a teenage witch not akin to Sabrina) comes to live with—and control—her family. Based on a novel by Lois Duncan, who also wrote the source novel for 1997's “I Know What You Did Last Summer.” Pretty scary if ordinary, made-for-TV horror from later-famous Craven. 94m/C VHS, DVD . Linda Blair, Lee Purcell, Jeremy Slate, Carol Lawrence, MacDonald Carey, Jeff McCracken, Jeff East, Fran Drescher; D: Wes Craven; M: Tom D'Andrea. TV