By: Erick Hart

Erick Hart — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 08:41:52 +0000

The film is compromised by the studio tinkering but I still feel it has a lot to offer.The murders (commited with a Nepalese Kuhkri knife,nasty looking blade ! )ARE quite shocking and the first death scene was among the nastiest shown in a British film up to that time.The scenes at the haunted house have great atmosphere and even the opening credits are disturbing.Warts and all I think it’s an intriguing film and it would make a nice double bill with the underrated Brit proto slasher TOWER OF EVIL,a VERY violent but very atmospheric pic.

HORROR HOUSE director Micheal Armstrong would later head to Germany and shoot the infamous (and very profitable) MARK OF THE DEVIL,a film famous at the time for issuing patrons with airline style “barf bags”,to prevent those with nervous stomach’s from ditying the theater (I guess drive-in’s didn’t care !).It was likely influenced by the Vincent Price hit THE WITCHFINDER GENERAL (aka THE CONQUERER WORM).It predates the recent so called “torture porn” cycle by decades.

By: glenn

glenn — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:57:49 +0000

Thanks Thomas.
I always wondered what felt wrong bout this film. Personally. Y think Britain never took to slashers in a big way because it produced a lot of its psycho thrillers and proto slasers in the 60s and early 70s.

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 23:46:33 +0000

I saw this on a late night horror show 20 years ago. No wonder why the film has such a boring middle half! And your right, the murders were nasty. The only thing I hated was the last scene at the end.

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