Five people are spending the night in a haunted house. Things get dicey when some of them start turning up decapitated.
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Title: Ghosts of Hanley House (1968)
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| Elsie Baker | ... | Lucy | |
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Barbara Chase | ... | Sheila |
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Wilkie de Martel | ||
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Roberta Reeves | ... | Gabby |
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Cliff Scott | ||
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Leonard Shoemaker | ... | Hank |
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Carl Grzybowski | ||
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Rubye Holmes | ||
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Frieda Kennedy-Jones | ||
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Len Luniewski | ||
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Jim Ward | ||
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Marc Bizard | ||
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Rena Scott | ||
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Eileen Baxley | ||
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Nosmo King | ||
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Five people are spending the night in a haunted house. Things get dicey when some of them start turning up decapitated.
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishFilming Locations:
4100 Lankershim Blvd, Sun Valley, California, USACompany Credits
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This mediocre ghost story is made viable and creepy by a few subtle touches. The special effects are a mix of dry ice and what appears to be more dry ice, but the lighting is at times interesting. The cast members have stark and/or dark features, and the B&W medium in combination with dramatic lighting for scenes within the haunted mansion make for a very good effect. You usually come to 'like' a character in a movie, and in this movie there isn't anyone to like. It seems that everyone is a dumb creep with some kind of motive. Just how much that works to the film's advantage, however, is difficult to say because it might be lost on a more casual viewer, but I think that it makes the story interesting. There are a few sidelines to the plot which were either never developed or lost to editing, but they are minor enough to not affect the continuity of the film. The screams are great. Hollywood just doesn't have screamers like it used to. I would recommend this movie, if you can find it.