The House of Seven Corpses is a 1971 (released 1973) U.S. horror film written, produced and directed by Paul Harrison. It stars John Ireland (Incubus), Faith Domergue, John Carradine (The Nesting), and Carole Wells.
A director is filming on location in a house where seven murders were committed. The caretaker warns them not to mess with things they do not understand (the murders were occult related), but the director wants to be as authentic as possible and has his cast re-enact rituals that took place in the house thus summoning a ghoul from the nearby cemetery to bump the whole film crew off one by one…
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Previously released with badly cropped, censored and muddy transfers, the film was finally be available in HD by Severin Films on 11th June 2013, transferred from original vault materials and featuring an exclusive archive interview with horror icon John Carradine (a DVD/Blu-Ray first) and an audio commentary with co-producer Gary Kent and film historian Lars Nilsen.
“The movie is slow moving and doesn’t really pick up to the latter half. The dialogue is pretty good and the characters are amusing. There is an eerie atmosphere, downright creepy scenes and excellent death sequences. It’s a film which at times captivates the attention and keeps one interested enough not to shut off the movie. Overall, I would definitely give this one a go but I encourage lowered expectations prior to watching.” Scared Stiff Reviews
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“Occasionally intriguing but ultimately shoddy schlock-horror. The film generates a modicum of atmosphere in the middle, in its resolutely low-tech fashion, but it suffers from a fatal lack of internal sense, both in its story and its opportunistic scene constructions. One shot of a zombie crossing a clearing is repeated three times. Ed Wood would have laughed at that one.” This Island Rod
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