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Ron Foster | ... | Scott Campbell |
| Merry Anders | ... | Nancy Campbell | |
| Richard Crane | ... | Joseph Schiller | |
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Dal McKennon | ... | Mr. Quinby |
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Georgia Schmidt | ... | Priscilla Rochester |
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Stacey Winters | ... | Nurse |
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Ayllene Gibbons | ... | The Fat Woman |
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An architect and his wife are staying in an empty castle in California. They are joined by an unhappily married lawyer and his wife. Things start getting strange when they spot a half man/half beast prowling around the house and keep seeing a headless woman wandering the grounds. Written by frankfob2@yahoo.com
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dysfunctional marriage | taming of the shrew | possessive wife | manipulative wife | female jealousy |Taglines:
13 keys to unleash the living dead. See more »Parents Guide:
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When Ron Foster and Merry Anders set out on their journey to the House they are in a Chrysler, but arrive in a Plymouth. When they go to the estate agent to collect the keys the Chrysler is parked outside, but they return to the house in the Plymouth. See more »Quotes
Loy Schiller: America is the only country where you have to worry about eating too much instead of not enough.See more »
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In the sixties, Robert Lippert's Associated Producers scored a contract making black and white 'Scope B movies to run with Fox's big pictures and turned loose house director Maury Dexter on them. The results were uneven but one group - the contemporary thrillers - the Los Angeles films - were more striking than most of the big films that elbowed them out of the advertising space.
Along with WOMAN HUNT, AIR PATROL and the later RAIDERS FROM BENEATH THE SEA, HOUSE OF THE DAMNED spins a thin budget into something surprisingly memorable. It succeeds where the Tod Browning film FREAKS failed in making it's circus performers real rather than monsters. The film's curious gentleness is one of its surprises.
The building of tension is nicely crafted - the unanswered phone, moving shots of the deserted private road, disturbing detail like the broken sculpture, the thirteen keys and the re-appearing sign.
Throw in the winning Merry Anders, anticipating the self reliant seventies woman and the atmospheric Hollywood Hills mansion setting which was once actually a haunt of bootleggers. People I see this with are always surprised that such a film exists.