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March 1963 (USA) moreTagline:
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An architect and his wife are staying in an empty castle in California. They are joined by an unhappily married lawyer and his wife... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Neglected curiosity stays in memory. moreCast
(Credited cast) | Ron Foster | ... | Scott Campbell |
| Merry Anders | ... | Nancy Campbell |
| Richard Crane | ... | Joseph Schiller |
| Erika Peters | ... | Loy Schiller |
 | Dal McKennon | ... | Mr. Quinby |
| Georgia Schmidt | ... | Priscilla Rochester |
| Stacey Winters | ... | Nurse |
 | Richard Kiel | ... | The Giant |
| Ayllene Gibbons | ... | The Fat Woman |
| John Gilmore | ... | The Legless Man |
| Frieda Pushnik | ... | The Legless Girl |
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In the sixties, Robert Lippert's Associated Producers scored a contract making black and white 'Scope B movies to run with Fox's big pictures and turned loose house director Maury Dexter on them. The results were uneven but one group - the contemporary thrillers - the Los Angeles films - were more striking than most of the big films that elbowed them out of the advertising space.
Along with WOMAN HUNT, AIR PATROL and the later RAIDERS FROM BENEATH THE SEA, HOUSE OF THE DAMNED spins a thin budget into something surprisingly memorable. It succeeds where the Tod Browning film FREAKS failed in making it's circus performers real rather than monsters. The film's curious gentleness is one of its surprises.
The building of tension is nicely crafted - the unanswered phone, moving shots of the deserted private road, disturbing detail like the broken sculpture, the thirteen keys and the re-appearing sign.
Throw in the winning Merry Anders, anticipating the self reliant seventies woman and the atmospheric Hollywood Hills mansion setting which was once actually a haunt of bootleggers. People I see this with are always surprised that such a film exists.