House of Terror

1973 "Step by Diabolical Step, You'll Be Driven to the BRINK of INSANITY!"
House of Terror
4.4| 1h30m| en| More Info
Released: 12 February 1973 Released
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A nurse is hired to take care of a mean, cantankerous woman. It turns out that the nurse and her boyfriend are after the woman's fortune. When the woman turns up dead in a bathtub full of blood the couple begin to search for the money, but they soon begin to suspect that the woman isn't really dead - or her ghost has come back to avenge her.

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Woodyanders Lovely young nurse Jennifer Andrews (ravishing brunette beauty Jennifer Bishop) is hired by nice guy millionaire Emmett Kramer (Mitchell Gregg) to take care of his mean and cranky semi-invalid wife Marsha (an excruciatingly shrill and unpleasant portrayal by Jaquelyn Hyde). After Jennifer's sleazeball boyfriend Mark Alden (an effectively smooth turn by Arell Blanton) kills Marsha in a staged suicide, Mark persuades Jennifer to marry Emmett for his sizable fortune. Complications ensue when Marsha's bitchy and conniving actress sister Dolores (Hyde again gleefully camping it up) shows up to also get get greedy paws on Emmett's money. Sound good? Well, it just ain't. Seriously undermined by Sergei Goncharoff's static direction, further marred by an extremely blah, talky, and by-the-numbers predictable script by Tony Crechales, a painfully slow pace, drab cinematography by Robert Maxwell, a mild PG rating that puts the kibosh on any gratuitous nudity or hardcore sleaze, all the standard insipid clichés (dark and stormy nights, blood dripping from the ceiling, a foul and ugly mute housekeeper, etc.), a generic ominous score by Jaime Mendoza-Nava, and a meandering and uneventful narrative, this dreary dud proves to be a heavy and unenjoyable chore to slog through. Neither the sight of the delectable Bishop in a bikini nor a nasty surprise twist ending can alleviate the severe boredom. A real yawnfest.
HumanoidOfFlesh A nurse and her homicidal boyfriend plot to kill her rich and seriously ill boss while they too are being stalked by some undefined horror.When the woman turns up dead in a bathtub full of blood the couple begin to search for the money,but they soon begin to suspect that the woman isn't really dead.Perhaps her ghost has come back to avenge her death."House of Terror" by Sergei Goncharoff is quite reminiscent in tone to S.F Browrigg's "Don't Look in the Basement",but it's nowhere nearly as effective.The plot is extremely tedious,the action moves at snail's pace and there is not enough horror for my liking.Apart from the beginning where elderly couple is savagely knifed to death there is almost no blood in "House of Terror".Very boring and common talkfest with pretty eerie denouement.4 out of 10.
zeppo-2 Quite a few low budget horror films have a couple of bad actors but how did they manage to fill this one full of them?! Is their a casting school just for crap actors? This movie sent for them...The old guy who the nurse first works for and then marries is an Omar Sharif lookalike with a Frank Zappa tash, just spends his time sat down drinking booze. I don't blame him either. The nurse just gets hysterical now and then, the old guy's wife emotes and chews the scenery. And the nurse's murderous boyfriend has all the charm of week old pizza, although we are supposed to believe he has the charisma to induce his girlfriend to help murder the old guy, now husband.Story tries to be a cross of 'The Postman always rings twice' or 'Body of Evidence,' fails and is strictly very amateur hour.I was losing the will to live when the late wife's identical twin sister turns up to add to the plot. This shock twist didn't help and I was so pleased when the sad sorry mess finally finished. Give this a miss and do something more worthwhile like counting your toenail clippings.
honic not the worst i ever saw but not your cup of tea at all i mean it's not the kinda of movie to spend your evening watching or your weekend for sureeits not phsyco for the great director Alfred Hitchcock , & its not based on a novel for Agatha Cristie either so don't expect much there is not much to talk about in that senseless picture weather in the plot or the acting or the photography or even the directing , the production was poor too so it didn't help in that senseso i'll be short .. if you are bored & need to spend sometime watching an exciting movie, this one had no suspense or excitement guaranteedno luck in that one sorry