It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Whilst the loose morals and superficial machinations of youthful Sixties' 'swinging London' are engagingly handled, it seems an age before someone suggests going to 'the old house' to liven up a tepid evening's entertainment.American singing sensation Frankie Avalon is top-billed Chris, but is more of a supporting character to the excellent Richard O'Sullivan's far more interesting Peter and Mark Wynter's two-timing Gary - at least for the first two thirds of the 92 minute running time. The girls, who are either predatory or naïve, include Sylvia (Gina Warwick), Dorothy (Carol Dilworth) and Madge (Veronica Doran). George Sewell looks menacing as Kellett, and Dennis Price is wasted as the Inspector - a role originally envisaged for Boris Karloff (although given Karloff's health during the late 1960s, it is difficult to imagine him in the role).Director and writer Michael Armstrong fails to inject many scares into this, and typically of Tigon's output at the time, the results could better be described as a fairly routine mystery than a horror (despite the premise).Tigon films were prolific at the time. Their horror output occasionally resulted in some excellent productions, including 'Witchfinder General (1968)', 'Blood on Satan's Claw (1970)' and 'The Creeping Flesh (1973)'. Although the cast try their best, this is fairly standard runaround stuff which, instead of getting more intriguing as things roll on, actually becomes less engaging.

The Haunted House of Horror is set in London during the swinging 60's where Sheila (Jill Haworth) works in a clothes shop, while at a party one night things turn really boring so some bright spark suggest that a large group of them head over to a supposedly haunted house on the outskirts of town for no apparent reason. Once the teen friends get there they tell stories about ghost's & such but things get serious when Gary (Mark Wynter) is stabbed to death & the other's find his dead body. Shocked & scared they are unsure what to do, they decide against calling the police since it must have been one of them responsible for the murder & instead take Gary's body & bury in the woods & agree to keep stum. However Gary's parents report him missing & Inspector Nill Bradley (Dennis Price) is on the case questioning his friends who begin to crack under the pressure...Also known as Horror House in the US this British production was co-written & directed by Michael Armstrong (Gerry Levy did re-shoots according to Armstrong on the British DVD commentary) & made by Tigon Films who were a rival at the time Hommer Studios & specialised in horror, The Haunted House of Horror comes as a big disappointment as it's got no haunting's & not much in the way of horrific content either. The script for The Haunted House of Horror is frighteningly slow, it takes what seems like hours to get to the (not) haunted house although because it's been so slow & so boring when the first gory murder abruptly happens it's a nice jolt & certainly breaks the tedium. Now the writing on The Haunted House of Horror is just way off the mark, instead of calling the police after finding Gary brutally murdered the teens decide to split up, search the house & then not call the police but instead bury the body outside & cover the murder up. I was just left asking what & why? I was then expecting The Haunted House of Horror to play out like an 80's teen slasher with the teens being killed off one-by-one because of their own stupidity but amazingly the script goes back to being an absolute bore as we jump forward three days & Gary is reported missing to the police. Eventually the film finished with all the teens going back to the (not) haunted house for reasons that, again, make no sense before the killer is unmasked in a truly logic defying revelation during which Frankie Avalon is stabbed in the crotch. The mystery aspects of the script are none existent, I don't understand why Armstrong didn't crank up the suspense & throw suspicion on a few of the likely killers. Apart from a couple of gory murders there's no horror either so I don't quite know what The Haunted House of Horror is good for. I also have to mention some of the dialogue which is just so bad it's funny, did people really talk like that back in the late 60's?The Haunted House of Horror is definitely a product of it's time & the whole swinging 60's London set is colourfully represented here with some hideous clothes (just look at the horrible bright yellow kipper tie) & garish decor (the wallpaper, the carpet, everything else) while the actually spooky (not) haunted house barely features. The scenes set in police offices & trendy London apartments all drag badly, they are dull & unintentionally amusing to watch because of the horribly dated set decoration. The (not) haunted house should have been used more & what the hell was that scene before the opening credits all about? Once the killer is revealed that scene no longer makes any sense, does it? The killers motives are really daft, if the moon is the trigger why did he kill Kellett? Why was he even back at the (not) haunted house when Kellett was looking far that lighter which itself is never explained, it's only a lighter after all? Why was he so desperate to get it back from an old house no-one ever goes anywhere near?Filmed in North England around Lancashire & Merseyside as well as London a film such as this is a bit of a time capsule, if nothing else it's amusing just to see how badly dated everything is. Director Armstrong originally wanted David Bowie in it but was told no by AIP, Beach Party star & singer Frankie Avalon was a strange casting choice while most of the teens look well into their thirties. Genre veteran Dennis Price has a small role was originally intended for Boris Karloff until his health problems prevented him accepting.The Haunted House of Horrror is an odd film, it tries to get away from superstition & the supernatural & be a serious psycho thriller but it's too silly & too random for to be a success. Occasionally amusing for the wrong reasons & there are a couple of gory murders bot The haunted House of Horror has little else going for it.

Group of older British kids (and one American, Frankie Avalon!) leave a boring party to chase ghosts at a supposedly haunted abandoned mansion; murders follow. There's an interesting sub-plot in this sub-par slasher--that of a young woman trying to untangle herself from an affair with a married older man--but it is wasted in this hysterical context. Released by Tigon Productions, a British arm of American International (which explains Avalon's appearance), and one in dire need of some macabre imagination. This one substitutes thrills with clichés, bright red blood, deadening teen-nobodys dotting the cast, and a depressing air of pointlessness in the wake of some shock deaths. Watchable for fans of the genre, but hardly satisfying. *1/2 from ****

I watched this movie not expecting much and still think I was short-changed somehow. The film is well photographed and although it sometimes appears to keep changing the time of day between shots in the same scene, the overall art direction is good. The film is never dull to look at with good use of camera, colour, angle and lighting. The music, except that awful pub song at the start, is at least good and sometimes better. I wasn't expecting great acting either but it's generally adequate even though the actors have nothing really to work with - this leads me onto the main problem... The plot, or lack of, as the characters appear to be going through the paces with no internal motivation whatsoever for anything they do, nor does there appear to be any logic to explain or give meaning to other events which occur either. Unfortunately, after a while I was hoping that the killer would just get on with it so I could put this disc away and watch the next movie in the pile. 3.5 stars, I would not recommend this movie for general entertainment.