The Legend of Hell House
A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic and the only survivor of the previous…
- Director:John Hough
- Genre:Horror | Mystery
- Runtime:95 minutes
Cast
Pamela Franklin : Florence Tanner
Roddy McDowall : Benjamin Franklin Fischer
Clive Revill : Mr. (Lionel) Barrett
Gayle Hunnicutt : Ann Barrett
Roland Culver : Mr. (Rudolph) Deutsch
Physicist Lionel Barrett is enlisted by an eccentric millionaire, Mr Deutsch, to make an investigation into “survival after death” in “the one place where it has yet to be refuted”. This is the Belasco House: the “Mount Everest of haunted houses,” originally owned by the notorious “Roaring Giant” Emeric Belasco, a six-foot-five perverted millionaire and supposed murderer, who disappeared soon after a massacre at his home. The house is believed to be haunted by numerous spirits; the victims of Belasco’s strange desires.
Accompanying Barrett are his wife, Ann, as well as two mediums: a mental medium and Spiritualist minister, Florence Tanner, and a physical medium, Ben Fischer, who is also the sole survivor of an earlier investigation. The rationalist Barrett is rudely skeptical of Tanner’s Christian faith and spiritual beliefs, asserting that there is nothing but unfocused electromagnetic energy in the house. Barrett brings a machine he has developed, which he believes will rid the house of any paranormal presence or force.
Though not a physical medium, Tanner begins to manifest physical phenomena inside the house. When, after a quarrel with Tanner, Barrett is attacked by an invisible force, he suspects that Tanner may be using the house’s energy against him. Meanwhile Fischer remains aloof, with his mind closed to the house’s influence, and is only there to collect the generous pay offered him to return.
Ann Barrett is subjected to erotic visions late at night, which seem linked to her lackluster sex life. She goes downstairs and, in a seeming trance, disrobes and demands sex from Fischer. He instead strikes her, snapping her out of the trance, and she returns to herself, horrified and ashamed. Her husband arrives a moment later, and is resentful. Read more
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