The House on Skull Mountain (1974)

User Rating:

4.2/10   

Director:

Ron Honthaner

Writer:

Mildred Pares (writer)

Release Date:

October 1974 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

Every Room Is A Living Tomb in The House On Skull Mountain

Plot:

The heirs to a rich man's fortune are called together for the reading of the will at a creepy mansion outside of Atlanta...

Plot Keywords:

Mansion | Voodoo | Last Will | Blaxploitation | Haunted House

Cast

Victor French	...	Dr. Andrew Cunningham
Janee Michelle	...	Lorena Christophe
Jean Durand	...	Thomas Pettione
Mike Evans	...	Phillippe Wilette
Xernona Clayton	...	Harriet Johnson
Lloyd Nelson	...	The Sheriff
Ella Woods	...	Louette
Mary J. Todd McKenzie	...	Pauline Christophe
Don Devendorf	...	The Priest
Jo Marie	...	The Doctor
Leroy Johnson	...	Mr. Ledoux (as Senator Leroy Johnson)
Ray Bonner	...	Deputy Sheriff
O.J. Harris	...	Voodoo Dancer

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Company:

Chocolate Chip

Movie Connections:

Edited into Out of this World Super Shock Show (2007) (V)

Soundtrack:

Love Has Gently Come This Morning

Cheesy 70's flick is too tame to be scary

"House on Skull Mountain"...we begin with an elderly woman being given last rites by a priest and the woman asks the priest to mail 4 envelopes for her, and each of these goes to a person who must show up at the house to collect an inheritance. Now this old woman was into voodoo, and so is at least one of her house-servants, so you know that will lead to something else later, and of course it does. Now that the "guests" have shown up, one of them is Lionel from "All in the Family/The Jeffersons", and another is Victor French, who yes, someone was related to this woman, although "not exactly the right color". Lots of mildly spooky things happen & there's some apparent hallucinations or something which lead to the deaths of some of the guests. One wonders though, why one woman was killed, as she was rather pleasant and innocuous, whereas I was ROOTING for Lionel Jefferson to be killed, since his character was so obnoxious. At any rate this all finishes off with a big voodoo ritual that goes on forever and then it's the end, huh....not really a lot to it, although it had promise....cool house, cool location, lots of potential with voodoo but this just kind of laid there....ah well. Incidentally, not that anyone will probably care after reading this, but this IS available now on DVD in a collection with "Mephisto Waltz", which, to me, is a far better film....5 out of 10.