A Name for Evil is a 1973 American horror film starring Samantha Eggar

Samantha Eggar

Samantha Eggar is an English film, television and voice actress.-Early life:She was born Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar in Hampstead, London to an Anglo-Irish father and a mother of Dutch and Portuguese descent...

 and Robert Culp

Robert Culp

Robert Martin Culp was an American actor, scriptwriter, voice actor and director, widely known for his work in television. Culp first earned an international reputation for his role as Kelly Robinson on I Spy , the espionage series in which he and co-star Bill Cosby played a pair of secret agents...

.

Plot

Dissatisfied with the family architectural business, a man and his wife pack up and move out to his great-grandfather's old house in the country. While trying to patch it up, the house starts to make it clear to him that it doesn't want him there, but the local church (with some off-kilter practices of their own) seems to take a shine to him...

Cast

• Samantha Eggar
  Samantha Eggar
  Samantha Eggar is an English film, television and voice actress.-Early life:She was born Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar in Hampstead, London to an Anglo-Irish father and a mother of Dutch and Portuguese descent...
  
   as Joanna Blake
• Robert Culp
  Robert Culp
  Robert Martin Culp was an American actor, scriptwriter, voice actor and director, widely known for his work in television. Culp first earned an international reputation for his role as Kelly Robinson on I Spy , the espionage series in which he and co-star Bill Cosby played a pair of secret agents...
  
   as John Blake
• Sheila Sullivan as Luanna Baxter
• Mike Lane
  Mike Lane
  Mike Lane born Michael Lane January 6 1933 in Washington DC is an American professional wrestler and actor.-Biography:Lane's formidable height of 6'8"/ 2.03200 meters and 275lbs/125kg led him to work in the King Bros. Circus boxing tent and wrestling tent where he would take on all comers...
  
   as Fats
• Sue Hathaway as Mary
• Ted Greenhalgh as Hugh

Release

The film was released theatrically in the United States

United States

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 by Cinerama Releasing Corporation

Cinerama Releasing Corporation

Cinerama Releasing Corporation, or CRC, is a defunct motion picture company established in 1952 that originally released films produced by its namesake parent company for major Hollywood studios Cinerama Releasing Corporation, or CRC, is a defunct motion picture company established in 1952 that...

 in 1973.

The film was released on VHS

VHS

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 in the U.S. by Paragon Video Productions in the 1984.