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Beware the house that comes alive with terror!Plot:
A mysterious, morbid professor who has suffered a number of horrid events in his life tries to help a young troubled man, whose girl friend was killed during an illegal abortion. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Michael York | ... | Professor Ambrose |
 | Andrew Bowen | ... | James Farrow |
 | Jason Cottle | ... | Fletcher |
 | Claudia Christian | ... | Lucy |
| Aideen O'Donnell | ... | Sarah |
 | Brian Glanney | ... | Jenkins |
| Ciaran Davies | ... | Graham |
| Colm O'Maonlai | ... | Reginald (as Colm Lydon) |
| Michael Finn | ... | Lt. Ryan (as Mike Finn) |
| Mitch Marcus | ... | Professor Benest |
| Daniel Rosen | ... | Preacher |
| Eoghan O'Brien | ... | Renter |
| Fred McCluskey | ... | Constable |
| Maeve O'Regan | ... | Barkeeper |
| Brian McGuinness | ... | Tilton |
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I expected more from a story by the author of "Turn of the Screw," but didn't get it here. Unrelieved by any humor whatever the narrative unrolls at a lugubrious pace with interspersed quick cuts of blood dripping from tables, walls, portraits, wherever -- and even more blood rolling in rippling overly crimson waves down a hallway (thank you, Stanley Kubrick). Peter York is okay, given his character, a tormented professor who does everything but shriek, "True, I am very very nervous, but why WILL you call me mad!" The other actors do what they can. The most depressing aspect of the film is in many ways its overall eidos -- the material artifacts and the natural backdrop against which the action takes place. Few movies have so many bare blackish twisted tree limbs dripping with cold rain, so many pale bodies wrapped uncomfortably in wet woolen capes and unbecoming gowns that seem to have been built around internal struts made of wire coat hangers. The interiors are just about as dreary, dim candles and fireplaces that seem to throw little heat or light. Given all of this, I still didn't find the movie so bad as to be unwatchable. It's just that it left me so gloomy, like watching the evening news on a particularly bad day.