Horror House (1969)
5/10
Average horror movie with chills , thrills and ghastly happenings at a mysterious haunted house
25 January 2022
This run-of-the-mill chilling terror movie in low budget contains heart-pounding horror , suspense , thriller , chills , grisly stabbing and lots of blood and gore . The Haunted House of Horror (1969) is plenty of twisted mysteries , intrigue , suspenseful and being regularly directed . The movie opens with a a group of young people in the swinging London in the late Sixties . Bored with the noisy party they're at drive out to a lonely haunted mansion . Dealing with an old house surrounded by heavy fog , at a creepy night , there they attempt to find out what happened time ago when a ghost committed murders , that's why various characters arrive in the bizarre mansion , then they're dying one by one . They flee from the sinister location ; but shortly after , the leader of the group persuades the rest that they should go back to solve the killings themselves rather than go to the police , opening the way to further slaughter . The survivors must find out who among them is the murderer before he finishes off everybody . Behind its forbidden doors an evil secret hides !. The dead are restless tonight at...

Ordinary slasher terror flick , it contains thrills , chills , gory effects , and high body-count . Routine stabbing pic concerning usual plot in which some bored teens decide to go into a mysterious , deserted house to investigate grisly events long time ago and when they're gathered in the old mansion being killed one by one . As unfortunate victims and other disconcerting visitors submitted to extremely brutal assaults , terrifying situations , frenzied knife attacks , slashing , chases and anything else . The picture starts slowly with overtalking and dull parties in which teanagers dancing and speaking nonsense dialogues ; later on , it takes accent on tension at the eerie house by means of a well-knit script full of twists , turns and an unexpected final . The film was heavily re-written, edited and re-filmed by Gerry Levy due to its American premiere in order to get better box office . It packs scary images-shock , slick mountage and nail-biting pace at times . The movie is a fair murder mystery at a wild week in which a group retread at an isolated location and a killer goes around and carrying out a relentless carnage . The cast of visitors is interchangeable and they keep straight and in some cases more easily identifiable by their interpretations in previous or subsequent films . It displays some surprising images , colorful scenarios and adequate atmosphere . Despite being dismissed critically and really panned by reviewers , the movie has some positive aspects as the attractive cast , such as : the famous American singer Frankie Avalon , Richard O'Sullivan : a popular TV star thanks to successful sitcom ¨Robin's nest¨ , the veterans : Dennis Price, George Sewell , and the the young Jill Haworth who starred other better considered terror movies as : ¨It!¨ , ¨The Mutations¨ and ¨Tower of Evil¨ .

The motion picture was middlingly directed by Michael Armstrong , as it has a lot of flaws , gaps , failures and shortfalls . However , at the insistence of one of the US producers it was drastically edited and re-shot again so that its US exhibition to get more commerciality . Armstrong is a craftsman who worked as an assistant in ¨Witchfinder General¨, he has directed a few films, such as : ¨The haunted house of horror¨ and ¨Screamtime¨. He's usually a movie writer , such as : ¨Black panther¨, ¨The sex thief¨, ¨Shoestring¨, ¨Adventures of a private eye¨. His biggest hit was ¨Mark of the Devil¨ 1970 (at the time considered to be a video nasty , banned in many countries) co-directed by Michael Reeves and Adrian Hoven , though Michael Reeves was first hired, as he was set to shoot it , but Reeves passed away before filming was to start . The Haunted House of Horror (1969) rating : 4.5/10. Mediocre . Only for British horror fans .
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