The House That Screamed Movie Download

5 / 10

“…I must run this establishment with a firm hand!”
When I read the superlatives thrown around for this movie by the viewers who rated it a ‘ten’, I have to wonder if I watched the same story. The set up for the film is okay, but considering that it’s intent is to go for horror, the tension and paranoia that should have resulted within the walls of the boarding school remain absent when it’s assumed that the girls we see murdered have simply run away. There seems to be a problem with editing as well, though I concede that might have been a problem with the version I watched. Chief among them was the claustrophobic scene in which young Luis (John Moulder Brown) gets trapped in the shaft overlooking the girls shower room. One minute he’s there, and next we see him conversing with one of the students. Well excuse me, but how the heck did he get out? Someone had to free him, thereby letting in a key player on to his dirty little secret. And speaking of that shower scene, it might have been a good idea for the young ladies to remove their gowns while lathering up. That was just a major puzzlement for this viewer. And correct me if I’m wrong, but it seemed to me like that precocious and horny young Luis aged about five years between the time we first met him and the final scene in which he throws the long bomb to his Mom (Lilli Palmer), an effect I haven’t seen before in a movie that runs about an hour and a half.Read More