Advantages: Genuinely creepy, spiced with nice dialogue & atmospherics Disadvantages: Laughable conclusion spoils all the good work
In the early 70s a clutch of young directors and talent threatened to pump new life and indeed blood into the British horror film. Peter Sasdy, Peter Sykes, Alan Gibson and John Hough appeared the most promising and the ones most likely to wrestle the reins from elder statesmen such as Terence Fisher and Freddie Francis. As gothic horror faltered at the box office, studios opened up to the idea of younger imaginations as they sought to recapture ... ...television, and who had directed the spirited if typically flawed Hammer outing 'Twins of Evil'. Armed with a talky but atmospheric script, Richard Matheson adapted his own novel 'Hell House' , the film was already on solid ground. Add faces like Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill and Pamela Franklin to the mix. Alan Hume was employed to light and shoot the picture, while Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop were contracted ...
dadmancat 03.05.2004
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Production Year: 2000 - Horror - Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Carmen Electra, Anna Faris, Kurt Fuller, James Van Der Beek, Keenen Ivory Wayans
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