An architect and his wife encounter bizarre occurrences as they survey a mansion built by an eccentric heiress.An architect and his wife encounter bizarre occurrences as they survey a mansion built by an eccentric heiress.An architect and his wife encounter bizarre occurrences as they survey a mansion built by an eccentric heiress.
Felix Locher
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Did you know
- TriviaRochester Castle, built by the "crazy" heiress Priscilla Rochester, is a clear reference to the Winchester House in San Jose, CA. Sarah Winchester was the main heir to the Winchester Repeating Arms fortune. She continuously built onto her house until her death, rumor had it to pacify the spirits of people killed by Winchester guns.
- GoofsWhen 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.
- Quotes
Scott Campbell: I'd feel better if we had a gun.
Joseph Schiller: Lawyers don't carry guns, their clients do.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Win Win (2011)
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Neglected curiosity stays in memory.
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.
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.
- Mozjoukine
- Dec 16, 2002
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- Runtime1 hour 2 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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