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Written by James M. Tate / 8/10/2025 / No comments / christopher mcdonald , crown international , david gautreaux , donald petrie , eighties , haunted house , horror , joseph cotten , med flory , perry lang , trish van devere

TRISH VAN DEVERE AND DAVID GAUTREAUX DRIVE 'THE HEARSE'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMQluNBbemqmopQn-KLB5LMfzfYiARYTjN46OSs-G0SfbpYbmhhyphenhyphen6nuQJBWPt7L-Ra91KMdXpNibqHo9Ce0vgkZQO_YJVZ2RSy4HEK8VALMPlkDFZtHIIPQ6e_Ktfg1wetus7lYUD1gWD1t5nwRddNjSy0-ibZBDA9wW3BV_P7CUux0Gz7nWSkfrfHi_U5/s1424/Screen%20Shot%202025-08-10%20at%201.21.52%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="888" data-original-width="1424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMQluNBbemqmopQn-KLB5LMfzfYiARYTjN46OSs-G0SfbpYbmhhyphenhyphen6nuQJBWPt7L-Ra91KMdXpNibqHo9Ce0vgkZQO_YJVZ2RSy4HEK8VALMPlkDFZtHIIPQ6e_Ktfg1wetus7lYUD1gWD1t5nwRddNjSy0-ibZBDA9wW3BV_P7CUux0Gz7nWSkfrfHi_U5/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-08-10%20at%201.21.52%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE HEARSE Year: 1980 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Crown International Pictures was the place for 1970's teenage-hangout sex-comedies, and in 1980 their crowning achievement was basically a hangout vintage ghost story/horror that went beyond just the suspense-filled haunted house, or that titular HEARSE stalking Trish Van Devere's Jane Hardy the minute she goes from the big city (as a schoolteacher) to a rural town... <br><br>Where half of the movie has her completely unwelcome, ranging from the sheriff to goading children to handymen to veteran icon Joseph Cotten as a curmudgeon realtor, who, providing the paperwork for a newly inherited manor, personally remembered her departed aunt as a Satan-worshiper in a doomed relationship...  <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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TRISH VAN DEVERE AND DAVID GAUTREAUX DRIVE 'THE HEARSE'

Title: THE HEARSE Year: 1980 Rating: **** Crown International Pictures was the place for 1970's teenage-hangout sex-comedies, and in 198...

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