Campy, goofy, but definitely SCARY!

Like many of the other reviewers, I saw this movie at an impressionable young age and found it to be quite frightening. The movie actually consists of three short films, each one starring Karen Black. In the first, she plays a college professor who is being blackmailed by a student; you feel her pain and then surprise as the situation shifts. In the second story, Black plays twins with opposite personalities, and she does a fine job in both roles. Again, the plot contains a Twilight Zone-like, unexpected twist in the end. Finally, in probably the most famous of the three tales, Black plays a woman who receives a statue of a small Zuni warrior as a gift. In what may have been a foreshadowing for the Gremlins movie that would follow ("don't get them wet!"), the statute includes specific instructions not to remove the chain which encircles the doll's waist. Of course, the chain--which obviously has not been secured very well--falls, the evil spirit inside the warrior comes to life, and Black is terrorized within her apartment. I admit, not only was I extremely frightened by this, but I tortured my little sister with fears of "the little guy under the bed" for years! If watching this movie today, I'm sure it would come across as both campy and goofy, but if you're looking for good, nostalgic, suspenseful horror, you can't go wrong here.

HIGH QUALITY TV-MOVIE-OF-THE-WEEK

The movie is dated by today's standards - with the '70s fashions, the dated music, and the overall length of the film - but that doesn't mean it has lost its punch. All three stories, with Karen Black leading in each of them, are highly suspenseful and well-written and directed. From "JULIE", with Black as a conservative school teacher with a dark side, "MILLICENT AND THERESE" with Black as twin sisters with largely different personalities, and "AMELIA" as a single lady spending a night alone in her apartment with everyone's worst nightmare, this movie has become increasingly hard-to-find and is definitely worth the purchase if you do come across it. They just don't make 'em like this anymore, and that's a shame.

Good movie

This low budget movie turned out to be a horror classic.I saw this movie in the mid 70s when i was 10 or 11.I was not scared but its the sort of movie that you never forget.
I had heard people talking about it but i didnt know its title.
Then i found out the title,and saw it on Amazon and i just had to get it.
The first 2 episodes in this trilogy are sort of ok but its the 3rd one that gets your skin crawling when that little doll starts chasing her(Karen Black) around the place shes at.I shouldnt tell what happens at the end,but id hate to get a hicky from her chompers!