The Legend of Hell House
The Legend of Hell House
PG | 15 June 1973 (USA)
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A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove/disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House.

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Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Gutsycurene

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

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Neive Bellamy

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

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Scarlet

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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McCool2112

One of the best haunted house films, sure its a bit dated but so are many of the classic horror films, it also manages to get good few scares in as well considering when it was made. The acting is great, especially Roddy McDowall as Fischer. John Hough seemed to have a clear vision and direction and you can really see this through the shots he uses, they really help in creating the creepy atmosphere that he managed to conjure. This film also came out the same year as The Exorcist and The Wicker Man, maybe its not as well known or as acclaimed as them but I believe it can stand amongst them as one of the best horror films, it has definitely become one of my favourite horror films.

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Jade Victoria Battle

Okay so the main guy is an annoying brute who really doesn't care if anyone else dies as long as he can keep preaching his all mighty opinion. The other guy is an annoying constant "philosophy of the matter" spouting idiot who shouldn't even be there because everyone died during his last visit and the other medium knows she could be killed in this house but insists on slowly accepting and naively succumbing to its evil... even going so low as to have sex with a demon in her guest bedroom. The smartest person in this movie is the wife and she is just in the house supporting her husband with no knowledge of the supernatural at all like the others.. yet and still with all of that being said they just do not make many good, original haunted house films so the setting and unique sequences in the movie alone make it a must watch and an unforgettable experience... the question is was it really a good one.

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Edgar Allan Pooh

. . . THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE postulates. The characters in this movie toss around a lot of big words such as "sadism" and "necrophilia," but it's a classic case of "bait and switch." When push comes to shove, an audience propelled onto the edge of their seats by an effectively creepy music score and multiple "fog machines" is left with no bigger thrill than the sticky gross-out of the mummified used gum of yesteryear lurking at their fingertips on the bottom of their theater pews. The nudity here is always implied, never real. Violent deaths may occur by the dozen in HELL HOUSE, but they're all off-camera, usually described in exposition of long-ago events. When the curtain is finally pulled away to reveal HELL HOUSE's Wizrd of Ahhhs, we get a hapless stiff instead of what should be an eerily spry 94-year-old (after all, that's the age someone born in 1879 such as "Emerick Belasco" would actually be in 1973, when this flick is set). Talk about a let-down. Had Emerick simply wriggled his little finger, it would have out-weighed all the pseudo-scientific Mumbo Jumbo thrown at us in this DULL HOUSE.

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SanteeFats

This was filmed in the UK and consciously done so in black and white. I think it was a good choice. The directing is well done, the acting is very good, and the special effects are kept to a minimum and are basic. Two psychics, one the only survivor of a previous attempt to find out about the house, the other young woman. There is also a scientist and his wife. The scientist has brought a machine that is suppose to remove any ghostly presence. As things progress the evil of the house manifests itself in various ways. It attacks the woman psychic a couple of times and goes after the wife. They find a shackled, dessicated body at one point. The malevolent spirit fools them into believing it is the ghost of his son. The scientist eventually runs his machine and it doesn't work. The scientist is killed in a bizarre ethereal attack. Roddy McDowall is the survivor from the first time and he finally has it figured out. He turned the on again and this time it gets rid of the badness.

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