The House in Marsh Road – US TV title: Invisible Creature – is a 1960 British supernatural horror film directed by Montgomery Tully (The Electronic Monster; The Terrornauts) from a screenplay by producer Maurice J. Wilson, based on the story The House on Marsh Road by Laurence Meynell.
The film stars Tony Wright (The Man Who Haunted Himself; The Creeping Flesh), Patricia Dainton, Sandra Dorne (Devil Doll; The Playbirds), Derek Aylward, Sam Kydd (Island of Terror; The Projected Man), Llewellyn Rees, Anita Sharp-Bolster (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, TV series; The Hands of Orlac).
Plot teaser:
When his young wife (Dainton) inherits ‘Four Winds’, an old house in the countryside, a bored alcoholic writer (Wright) plots to murder her so he can inherit the property and marry a curvaceous blonde divorcee (Dorne) instead. However, the resident poltergeist intervenes…
Reviews:
‘ …entertaining and atmospheric low-budget feature rises above the standard expected from the much-maligned B-movie.’ BritMovie.co.uk
‘This is a rather tame supernatural thriller…’ Phil Hardy (editor), The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror
Choice dialogue:
“Everything and everybody in this town’s gone supernatural!”
Cast:
- Tony Wright – David Linton
- Patricia Dainton – Jean Linton
- Sandra Dorne – Valerie Stockley
- Derek Aylward – Richard Foster
- Sam Kydd – Morris Lumley
- Llewellyn Rees – Webster
- Anita Sharp-Bolster – Mrs. O’Brien
- Roddy Hughes – Daniels
- Harry Hutchinson – Landlord
- Olive Sloane – Mrs. Morris
- Geoffrey Denton – Police Inspector
- Olga Dickie – Hotel Proprietress
