The Legend of Hell House

The Legend of Hell House

By John Hough

  • Genre: Horror
  • Release Date: 2001-09-04
  • Advisory Rating: 15
  • Runtime: 1h 33min
  • Director: John Hough
  • Production Company: Academy Pictures
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • iTunes Price: GBP 7.99
  • iTunes Rent Price: GBP 3.49
6.7/10
6.7
From 253 Ratings

Description

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. 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.

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  • Great Book

    2
    By MightyA
    Whilst Hell House is a great book, the film (with a screenplay by the author Richard Matheson) fails to deliver adequate chills for a modern audience. The techniques for delivering scares amounts to spinning camera's and the like, whilst this might have something to do with age of the movie it also indicates a film trying to take its subject matter (parapsychology & the paranormal) seriously. Perhaps a bit too seriously- as the only tangible demonic force we get to see is a black cat, which may have been due to budget restrictions (it's also shot in the UK as opposed to its US setting) but the book really offers us very real ghosts and terrors, not just the idea of them. All in all, sadly rather dull. Though almost worth the entrance fee to see how beautiful Gayle Hunnicutt is in it. Roddy McDowell is purely paying the rent.
  • The red and the black...

    4
    By Surak
    Similar in plot to Robert Wise's classic chiller "The Haunting", with its gathering of psychics and scientists in a reputedly haunted house, this has a genuinely convincing flavour of the paranormal. The set design are painted in rich reds and blacks, and the storyline enjoys subverting your expectations of what the characters are up to. For fans of ghostly thrillers this is well worth seeking out.

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