Burnt Offerings
Winner: Scariest Face
Burnt Offerings. Written by Dan Curtis, William F. Nolan & Robert Marasco (novel). Directed by Dan Curtis. Dan Curtis, 1976 [1978].
Burnt Offerings
VIEW CONTEXT: WCKT Channel 7 (Miami) • NBC
VIEW DATE: Sep 23, 1978 [verified]
AWARDS:
- Most Menacing Face — The grinning hearse driver was the most menacing face in TV movie history. Pale, pock-marked, sleazy-oily, worldly-evil, and spiffy. He’s the angry carny or service industry ruffian working a kid-friendly job in order to terrorize, rape, and kill gifted and anxious boys.
- Scariest Ending — The dead-angry pale face of Mrs. Allardyce who is actually Marian comprised the scariest ending in TV movie history.
Shocking Fun Fact
- The 1973 Robert Marasco novel was the basis for Stephen King’s The Shining (1977).