Burnt Offerings

The Rolf (spelled "Rolfe" in the novel) family, who live in a cramped apartment in Queens, New York, takes a bargain-priced summer-long vacation at a large, shabby, remote neo-classical 19th-century mansion. The family consists of housewife Marian (Karen Black), her teacher husband Ben (Oliver Reed), their twelve-year-old son Davey (Lee H. Montgomery) and Ben's elderly Aunt Elizabeth (Bette Davis) join them. The Allardyce siblings inform the Rolfs of a particularly odd requirement for their rental: