THE HAUNTED HOUSE OF HORROR ’60s proto-slasher. Free to observe on YouTube
‘Behind its forbidden doorways an evil secret hides’
The Haunted Home of Horror aka Horror Home is a 1969 British-American proto-slasher horror movie written and directed by Michael Armstrong (Home of the Lengthy Shadows (script); The Black Panther; Mark of the Satan).
The Tigon-AIP manufacturing stars Frankie Avalon, Jill Haworth, Dennis Value, George Sewell and Mark Wynter.
American Worldwide Photos producer Louis ‘Deke’ Heyward re-wrote the script throughout manufacturing and line producer Gerry Levy (The Physique Stealers) additionally penned and shot new scenes with a subplot involving a ‘pink herring’.
In 1993, Michael Armstrong informed The Darkside journal: “After I first noticed all of it put collectively I practically died. The silly subplot is badly shot and so boring … I actually wept.”
Screenbound Photos launched a remastered model of The Haunted Home of Horror within the UK on Blu-ray on April 15, 2019.
Extras embrace:
Commentary and a brand new interview with director Michael Armstrong
Interview clips with Michael Armstrong (director/screenwriter), Ross Carver (hairdresser), James Devis (digital camera operator), Carol Dilworth (lead actress), Veronica Doran (lead actress), Jeanette Ferber (manufacturing secretary), Howard Lanning (dubbing editor), Peter Pitt (editor), Mark Wynter (lead actor)
Plot:
Whereas trying to enliven their night after a uninteresting celebration, a gaggle of Londoners and their American pal, Chris (Frankie Avalon), resolve to pay a go to to a supposedly haunted mansion. They lock themselves in, and, following a seance, considered one of them is brutally killed.
Realising the killer should be one of manyir personal, unofficial ringleader Chris prevails on everybody to bury the physique and, bizarrely – cowl up the homicide on account of previous drug points. Nevertheless, the police examine so reluctantly, the group resolve to establish the killer…
E-book critiques:
” …the movie is depressingly facile for a lot of its size, however the bits shot by Armstrong – the graphically bloody homicide scenes and the following hysteria among the many survivors – are completed with a disquieting relish.” Jonathan Rigby, British Gothic, Reynolds & Hearn, 2004
“Though tame by fashionable gore requirements, the restrained tone of the re-shot scenes and Armstrong’s unique pacing (stretched out to nearly painful lengths by later inserts) produce a movie that has an uneasy tone.” Andy Boot, Fragments of Concern, Creation Books, 1996
“Disagreeable with out being attention-grabbing in any side. The forged look as bored because the viewers.” Alan Frank, The Horror Movie Handbook, Batsford, 1982
” …makes efficient use of its creepy backdrop – all foreboding candlelit rooms and creaking doorways – and the murders (together with a staircase stabbing) are startling for his or her time. The climactic assault on Avalon, as an illustration, is especially bloody and incorporates a graphic groin knifing.” Steven West, The Shrieking Sixties, Midnight Marquee Press, 2010
Selection dialogue:
Sylvia: I’m not scared, I’m simply bored. The celebration won’t have been a raving success, however that is ridiculous.”
Solid and characters:
Frankie Avalon … Chris; Jill Haworth … Sheila
Dennis Value … Inspector; Mark Wynter … Gary; George Sewell … Kellett; Gina Warwick … Sylvia; Richard O’Sullivan … Peter; Carol Dilworth … Dorothy; Julian Barnes … Richard; Veronica Doran … Madge; Robin Stewart … Henry; Jan Holden … Peggy; Clifford Earl … Police Sergeant; Robert Raglan … Bradley; Nicholas Younger … Celebration Visitor
Filming areas:
Financial institution Corridor, Bretherton, Lancashire, England
Birkdale Palace Resort, Southport, England
Carnaby Road, London, England
Nice Marlborough Road, London, England
Grim’s Dyke, Previous Redding, Harrow Weald, London (reshoots)
Enjoyable info:
The unique title was The Darkish
Boris Karloff was supposed to play the position of the Inspector however was too in poor health.
Though portraying a youngster, Frankie Avalon was practically thirty years outdated on the time of filming.
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