Wednesday, October 19, 2011

House of the Living Dead (1976)


Directed by Ray Austin
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(VHS, VCI Command Performance)

A plantation owner in South Africa welcomes his bride-to-be to her new home. She soon finds out that the family has numerous skeletons in the attic, literally. Mom rejects her and does her best to convince her to leave. The house servants use voodoo and witchcraft. A mysterious man in a hooded robe is seen killing people. Is it the brother in the attic who is "collecting souls"? Most of the running time of this dreadful film is spent on boring family melodrama. It does pick up in the last 15 minutes or so when true identities are finally revealed. The best scene: a dead body seated at a bloody organ playing some demented music. However, it's a long, slow build-up to reach it.

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