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"The House of the Dead" is a 1978 horror anthology movie with "The Mortician" introducing each scary tale."The House of the Dead" is a 1978 horror anthology movie with "The Mortician" introducing each scary tale."The House of the Dead" is a 1978 horror anthology movie with "The Mortician" introducing each scary tale.
Linda Gibboney
- Julie
- (as Kathie Gibboney)
John King III
- Marie's Husband
- (as John King)
- Director
- Writer
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- TriviaThe screenplay was originally entitled "Five Faces", and then changed to "Five Faces of Terror" during production. Prior to release, the film's title was changed to "Alien Zone" by the distributor, for unknown reasons, and then changed again to "House of the Dead."
- GoofsHanged man in the third story sometimes changes his position throughout the scene.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Elvira's Movie Macabre: House of the Dead (1984)
- SoundtracksThe Sound of Goodbye
Music by Stan Worth (as Stan V. Worth)
Lyrics by Ayn Robbins
Performed by Steve March
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Stopping By The Mortician On A Rainy Evening
After a quick night of kanoodling with mistress Leslie Paxton, John Ericson is caught out in the rain, but kindly old mortician Ivor Francis allows him to get out of the cold and wet while he tells him job stories. And for Francis, being a mortician is a job he relishes.
The title Alien Zone is quite the misnomer because there are no creatures from another planet in this film. Unless you consider the perceptive Francis from another world. Because what Francis does is show him four coffins with bodies inside and tells him about how all of them got there. Apparently no one who is a client at the Francis Funeral Home ever died a really natural death.
The stories are of an uneven quality, the best being the third one which involves a couple of vain police inspectors, Charles Aidman and Bernard Fox, each thinking he's the world's best detective. The dialog is really good in that story. The others involve Judith Novgrod as a reclusive school teacher who hates kids, Burr DeBenning as a psychotic murderer, and Richard Gates as a selfish yuppie. They all get a good comeuppance in the end.
Despite a misleading title Alien Zone is not a bad anthology film and how does Ericson and his story fit into all this. Not really hard to figure out even if you don't see the film.
The title Alien Zone is quite the misnomer because there are no creatures from another planet in this film. Unless you consider the perceptive Francis from another world. Because what Francis does is show him four coffins with bodies inside and tells him about how all of them got there. Apparently no one who is a client at the Francis Funeral Home ever died a really natural death.
The stories are of an uneven quality, the best being the third one which involves a couple of vain police inspectors, Charles Aidman and Bernard Fox, each thinking he's the world's best detective. The dialog is really good in that story. The others involve Judith Novgrod as a reclusive school teacher who hates kids, Burr DeBenning as a psychotic murderer, and Richard Gates as a selfish yuppie. They all get a good comeuppance in the end.
Despite a misleading title Alien Zone is not a bad anthology film and how does Ericson and his story fit into all this. Not really hard to figure out even if you don't see the film.
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- Alien Zone
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- Ponca City, Oklahoma, USA(Detective Toliver & Inspector McDowal dinner, Cantwell on the streets, film's final sequence)
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- $350,000 (estimated)
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