Also creepy sound effects and eerie music help keep up the mood and director John Hough shoots the film from weird angles keeping you off balance. There's no humor and it's beautifully atmospheric.

Next to the 1962 version of 'The Haunting' this is the best haunted house flick ever made. They are given only a week and, in that time, have all the ghosts attack full force. I would, however, say that this is among Michael Gough's best performances-far more subtle and less shrill than most.įour psychic investigators (Roddy McDowall, Pamela Franklin, Clive Revill, Gayle Hunnicutt) are to spend a week in the Mount Everest of haunted houses to see if life does exist after death. The ending you might like-I wasn't all that impresses-especially since I don't know how lead would cause the least bit of difference. Overall, this is worth seeing, as it's creepy as can be. Once inside, weird things start happening-and the malevolent spirits in the house begin to possess various members of the group. It seems that of the last 9 people who investigated this place, only one came out alive! Now, the physicist/parapsychologist will take a team into the bricked out house to determine the secret of this god-forsaken house. He offers the man 100,000 pounds to investigate the most haunted house in the world-a death house nicknamed 'Hell House'. The film begins with a very old rich guy meeting with a physicist and amateur parapsychologist. However, while it is worth watching, the ending did very little for me-as if they'd created this wonderful mood but weren't exactly sure what to do about it. 'The Legend of Hell House' does an exceptional job of setting a scary and haunting mood. Title (Brazil): 'A Casa da Noite Eterna' ('The House of the Eternal Night')

The ghost story is supported in lighting, make-up and camera work and only few special effects and is effective. Will they be successful in their intent? 'The Legend of Hell House' is a creepy and atmospheric horror movie with a good story of haunted house. Barrett brings a machine to drain the energy in the house. Along the days, Florence believes that there are entities in the house, including Belasco's son Daniel Fischer keeps his mind closed expecting only to earn the promised money, and the skeptical Dr. Barrett goes with his wife Ann Barrett (Gayle Hunnicutt). Fischer is the only survival of a previous investigation and the Dr. The house belonged to 'Roaring Giant' Emeric Belasco that promoted orgies in the house and had mysteriously disappeared after a massacre. Lionel Barrett (Clive Revill) to the mental medium Florence Tanner (Pamela Franklin) and to the physical parapsychologist Benjamin Franklin Fischer (Roddy McDowall) to investigate survival after death in the notorious Belasco House, a.k.a. Rudolph Deutsch (Roland Culver) promises a small fortune to the physicist Dr.

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