Legend of Hell House
| release date | June 15 1973 |
| studio | 20th Century Fox |
| director | John Hough |
| writer | Richard Metheson |
| starring | Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall |
| rating | R |
| tagline | For the sake of your sanity, pray it isn't true! |
| site | amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005LIRD |
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Fantastic creepy movie thats aged well considering the year it was made, I wish they made more like this these days.
Ghost movie that actually works.
“Another very positive factor about the film is that the actors know how, and when to look and act scared.” Yeah! Wait, what?
“The Legend of Hell House” is a very stylish movie with excellent performances, but in the end too derivative of 1963′s “The Haunting”. Still, it’s very much worth your time.
Pretty good “Haunted House” flick. Very well made for its time. The house itself had a very dark & sinister quality about it. Good acting for the most part. I first learned of this film when I watched the classic documentary, “Hollywood Ghost Stories”. Pretty good watch overall. If you’re a fan of 70′s horror, you’ll like it.
An interesting but quite flawed and horribly overrated haunted house flick. Starts out creepy and suspenseful in the first half but sadly, it gets quite tedious and unspectacular in the second half. The plot is silly and the script is badly written, mainly because of various silly plot lines and a super-disappointing ending. Large parts of the dialogue are annoying (especially the over-use of the term ‘Belasco’s son’) and I totally hate the constant time-and-date inserts.
The acting is quite good, especially Roddy McDowall, Pamela Franklin and Roland Culver’s performances. The Hell House (not to confuse with the ‘Hill House’ from “The Haunting”) looks terrifically creepy, most of the camera work and the soundtrack are cool and effective, and the scary scenes are all just amazing, most notably the fabulous dinner scene with the brutal Poltergeist attack, the very first sitting with the possessed girl and the awesome scene with the dead cat in the shower, a scene that could have been from some Italian giallo.
Overall, an ok 70s horror flick. No more, no less.
in my top 100 fav horror movies
Horrible. It MAY have been better than watching grass grow in 1973, but nearly 40 years later, it’s a snorefest.
Good haunted house flick.