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The Legend of Hell House

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543013846
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 04, 2001
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 16002
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: June 15, 1973

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Editorial Review:

Description:
In sits there, shrouded in mist and mystery, a nesting place for living evil and terror from the dead. It's Hell House. Roddy McDowall heads the cast of this exciting chiller about four psychic investigators and the dark, brooding mansion they themselves call 'the Mt. Everest of haunted houses.' It's already destroyed one team of researchers. Now this brave quartet ventures in for another try at unraveling its secret. But before they succeed, they must suffer through madness, murder and everything else the spirits that dwell here have in store for them. Yet learning the truth just might drive them all insane. An ingeniously-devised ghost story, THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE will thrill and delight veteran horror fans from the first creaking door to the very last slithering shadow.

Amazon.com:
Four people enter the Belasco Mansion, the so-called 'Everest of haunted houses,' hired by a dying millionaire to investigate the possibility of life after death. Physicist Clive Revill leads the quartet, which includes his wife Gayle Hunnicut and two mediums. Pamela Franklin, young and impulsive, immediately makes contact with what she perceives as a tortured spirit, while Roddy McDowall, the only survivor from the previous investigation 20 years ago, closes himself off completely, deathly afraid of the malevolent forces that crushed his former comrades in body and spirit. Science fiction and horror legend Richard Matheson, responsible for penning such horror classics as The Devil Rides Out and Roger Corman's The Pit and the Pendulum, brings a literate sensibility and a refreshing seriousness to the haunted-house genre with this adaptation of his novel Hell House. Director John Hough follows Matheson's lead with a moody but sober approach, balancing the physical threats of objects lethally leaping to life with the slow, subtle possession of the characters by a truly evil spirit. Parts of the script feel like so much scientific mumbo jumbo, with characters discussing the finer points of supernatural manifestation and ectoplasmic activity, but Hough's deliberate direction gives it the necessary solemnity to take it all seriously. --Sean Axmaker




Rating: - This film is legendary!
I have been wanting this movie for a long time. Pretty much top shelf entertainment of the evil house ... Read More

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Rating: - Over-the-top and dated, but still fun
This is a movie that you'll either love or hate.

It's the usual story: A wealthy and aging ... Read More

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Rating: - A Haunted House Film Worth Seeing
Mr. Rudolph Deutsch has hired Lionel Barrett to investigate a haunted house. This isn't any normal haunted ... Read More

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Rating: - I still cannot watch this movie alone!
The first time I saw this film, I was scared to death. The last time I saw this movie, I was scared to death! ... Read More

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Rating: - A Classic
A more visceral tale than Wise's adaption of THE HAUNTING, this big screen version of Richard Matheson's novel ... Read More

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