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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: 14139
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: June 15, 1973
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
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! It may be vintage horror, but it is not your typical "haunted house" flick. It may not have all of those glitzy, Hollywood special effects, but it still manages to chill me to the bone. For good, old-fashioned horror movie fans, this is a MUST have!
Rating: - A Classic
A more visceral tale than Wise's adaption of THE HAUNTING, this big screen version of Richard Matheson's novel HELL HOUSE is still all these years later, one spooky film. A fine cast that includes Clive Revill, Gayle Hunnicutt, Roddy McDowell and Pamela Franklin, it comes really close to capturing the power of Matheson's book. Some chilling moments and a brief cameo by Michael Gough.
Rating: - Is it...?
Is it bloody?
I love that The Haunting is frightening without blood.
Rating: - How Horror Should Be
I think this movie is a great horror film. There are no special effects as we have today but they created some of the creepiest sceens without digital enhancement. They are British actors who sometimes have a tendency to over act but asll the parts are played very well. Eluding you to a true evil haunted house. I also love Roddy McDowall, he has always been one of my favorite actors.
Rating: - A great 70's haunted house movie
Saw this for the first time in the 70's when I was about 13 - my mom dropped off my little sister and me at the theater. Very scary to us then. Not so scary now, but just so damn cool to watch. Roddy McDowall did an excellent job playing the psychic Fischer. Very cool background music and synthesizer. Some great shots too. And look at that wrought iron gate when the movie title comes on screen. That gate itself is pure evil! The acting can be a little cheesy at times, but I think the movie is very ... Read More
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