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The Legend of Hell House
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543013846
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 MonoFrench (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglish (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
MPN: D2001384D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 04, 2001
Running Time: 95 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: June 15, 1973
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Editorial Review:
Four people enter the Belasco Mansion, the so-called "Everest of haunted houses," hired by a dying millionaire to investigate the possibility of life after death. Physicist Clive Revill leads the quartet, which includes his wife Gayle Hunnicut and two mediums. Pamela Franklin, young and impulsive, immediately makes contact with what she perceives as a tortured spirit, while Roddy McDowall, the only survivor from the previous investigation 20 years ago, closes himself off completely, deathly afraid of the malevolent forces that crushed his former comrades in body and spirit. Science fiction and horror legend Richard Matheson, responsible for penning such horror classics as The Devil Rides Out and Roger Corman's The Pit and the Pendulum, brings a literate sensibility and a refreshing seriousness to the haunted-house genre with this adaptation of his novel Hell House. Director John Hough follows Matheson's lead with a moody but sober approach, balancing the physical threats of objects lethally leaping to life with the slow, subtle possession of the characters by a truly evil spirit. Parts of the script feel like so much scientific mumbo jumbo, with characters discussing the finer points of supernatural manifestation and ectoplasmic activity, but Hough's deliberate direction gives it the necessary solemnity to take it all seriously. --Sean Axmaker
In sits there, shrouded in mist and mystery, a nesting place for living evil and terror from the dead. It's Hell House. Roddy McDowall heads the cast of this exciting chiller about four psychic investigators and the dark, brooding mansion they themselves call "the Mt. Everest of haunted houses." It's already destroyed one team of researchers. Now this brave quartet ventures in for another try at unraveling its secret. But before they succeed, they must suffer through madness, murder and everything else the spirits that dwell here have in store for them. Yet learning the truth just might drive them all insane. An ingeniously-devised ghost story, THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE will thrill and delight veteran horror fans from the first creaking door to the very last slithering shadow.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Is it...?
Is it bloody?
I love that The Haunting is frightening without blood.
Rating:  - How Horror Should Be
I think this movie is a great horror film. There are no special effects as we have today but they created some of the creepiest sceens without digital enhancement. They are British actors who sometimes have a tendency to over act but asll the parts are played very well. Eluding you to a true evil haunted house. I also love Roddy McDowall, he has always been one of my favorite actors.
Rating: - A great 70's haunted house movie
Saw this for the first time in the 70's when I was about 13 - my mom dropped off my little sister and me at the theater. Very scary to us then. Not so scary now, but just so damn cool to watch. Roddy McDowall did an excellent job playing the psychic Fischer. Very cool background music and synthesizer. Some great shots too. And look at that wrought iron gate when the movie title comes on screen. That gate itself is pure evil! The acting can be a little cheesy at times, but I think the movie is very ... Read More
Rating: - Great Film!!
If you ever happen to get your hands on this gem, please by all means..watch it!, You won't be sorry!. I love this film, it has OK acting, a decent story line and atmosphere that a lot of today's horror films are missing today..a great ghost story film. Recommended!!!
Rating:  - Haunted house movies sure are hard to make...as convincing horror movies that is.
Haunted house movies are some of the hardest movies to make in the horror genre. As I have said before many times, the movie does not have to be realistic per se, but it does have to be convincing in its depiction of a haunted house story. While this can be accomplished, it is very difficult to do, and most of these movies do not quite reach the threshold of being a convincing yet effective horror movie. Such is the case with "The Legend of Hell House" starring Roddy McDowell.
"The ... Read More
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