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unclefred		#41	[-]
Dec 21 09 3:47 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I hope Tom likes your grammar and syntax.
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Joe Karlosi		#42	[-]
Jan 12 11 11:52 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	This felt very much in the spirit of the superior CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS, I thought. And like that film we have to sit through a lot of exposition until we get to the ghoulish mayhem at the very end. There isn't much to recommend for most of the first three quarters, unless you like watching people shoot movies. But I always get a kick out of seeing Carradine wandering about in any horror film. Also starring in this movie is an older Faith Domergue (50's sci-fi beauty) which is interesting. And it's funny watching John Ireland playing the part of the most insufferably arrogant director any underpaid actor would ever want to work for.
evilskippy		#43	[-]
Jan 12 11 7:36 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	House has a nice late night vibe to it that I always enjoy. It would be a good double feature with Children Shouldn't Play. "The world's going to change tonight, doctor, I'm glad you'll be able to watch it. And... happy Halloween."
Spoiler II		#44	[-]
Jan 12 11 8:44 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Joe Karlosi wrote: This felt very much in the spirit of the superior CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS, I thought. And like that film we have to sit through a lot of exposition until we get to the ghoulish mayhem at the very end. There isn't much to recommend for most of the first three quarters, unless you like watching people shoot movies. But I always get a kick out of seeing Carradine wandering about in any horror film. Also starring in this movie is an older Faith Domergue (50's sci-fi beauty) which is interesting. And it's funny watching John Ireland playing the part of the most insufferably arrogant director any underpaid actor would ever want to work for. In an interview in NIGHTMARE USA claimed that on the set of this film, Ireland liked his "smoke" haha .Guess it didn't mellow the character out at all.
Rick		#45	[-]
May 27 12 1:59 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	This is the ad for the very engagement I saw of this double-feature.
jamesbrummel		#46	[-]
May 28 12 12:18 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	"Corpses Thirsty". There's a title. Now lets get a poster together. I just love the CORPSES 1poster. I have like 5 of them. That, SHOCK WAVES and RETURN OF COUNT YORGA are my favorite 1970s posters, big bold but simple graphics. Even though the first half or two are slow I like it. I like the intercutting of the zombie Sllllowwwwwly walking like 10 feet, adds to the 3am feel. And I have a hunch some of the "making movie" footage is not staged which is kind of cool.
YouPayMEAAminsOrGetNada.filmnet		#47	[-]
Sep 8 12 2:10 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Slow moving (no pun intended), but worth it. The "slow creep" of the ending just got creepier and creepier. And if anyone ever had to deal with any "half ass wannabees" in the film world, the last 15 minutes of the flick became oddly warm and resonant.
kochillt		#48	[-]
Jan 27 13 7:57 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	TCM's print was identical to my old Congress VHS (copyright 1985), right down to the opening blurb 'A Presentation of MOTION PICTURE HOLDING' (which was nearly obliterated on the VHS). The final sequence with the girl's corpse floating underneath the footpath is also identical, her naked crotch clearly seen, yet the opposite side features the same obscuring of her breasts as the camera's focus shifts in jarring fashion to her eyes (no doubt done during the editing process). As was usually the case, John Carradine remains the best thing about the film, and typically, is the first to go.
Godziwolf		#49	[-]
Jan 29 13 12:09 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Joe Karlosi wrote: This felt very much in the spirit of the superior CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS, I thought. And like that film we have to sit through a lot of exposition until we get to the ghoulish mayhem at the very end. There isn't much to recommend for most of the first three quarters, unless you like watching people shoot movies. But I always get a kick out of seeing Carradine wandering about in any horror film. Also starring in this movie is an older Faith Domergue (50's sci-fi beauty) which is interesting. And it's funny watching John Ireland playing the part of the most insufferably arrogant director any underpaid actor would ever want to work for. Can anyone explain just what in the hell is going on in that last 15 minutes?
Reegs		#50	[-]
Jan 29 13 7:46 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	DVRd it, then tried watching it the other day. Saw the first half hour or so (everyone was still alive), picked it up at the end (body floating under the footbridge), drifted off again, then erased it. What did I miss? Don't know how old Faith was at the time, but she was still a good lookin' woman.
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John Bernhard		#51	[-]
Jan 29 13 8:34 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'd guess Faith was 50, give or take a year. As to the film, it is seriously muddled and fails to connect the dots . If you watch closely, David is revealed to be a Beal and the owner of the open grave. But this fails to explain who the other ghoul is or how Anne gets from the house to floating in the water. Or what the pint of everything is. The script could nto have been that confused, so I am guessing they ran out of time or $$ and had to cobble the end together.
Godziwolf		#52	[-]
Jan 29 13 10:27 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	John Bernhard wrote: I'd guess Faith was 50, give or take a year. As to the film, it is seriously muddled and fails to connect the dots . If you watch closely, David is revealed to be a Beal and the owner of the open grave. But this fails to explain who the other ghoul is or how Anne gets from the house to floating in the water. Or what the pint of everything is. The script could nto have been that confused, so I am guessing they ran out of time or $$ and had to cobble the end together. The film has three points going for it: 1. The house itself is amazing. And it's clearly a real house -- sets, even on expensive movies, don't go to the lengths to get period authenticity of what an expensive 19th century house would look like in 1973 -- down to the mismatched arts&crafts fixtures, the obviously retrofit electrical system, and what are very expensive burled panels on the wainscoting. 2. It's got a pretty good cast. 3. It's dark. The script makes absolutely no sense. It's got little creepy moments, but they don't make sense in context. Where did Price go? What was his connection to the Beals? How did he not notice the empty graves, given his sub-basement room? Why in god's name did the house not have power -- it's clearly wired for electric. How did a house with no electrical connection have hot running water on the 3rd floor? Who is the second ghoul? Why are the dead such terrible fighters? How did the director not notice the giant gaping empty grave, or the 6'4" dead man? Just how big are the drains in this house, anyway? It's not terrible, but the ending almost seems to come from a different film, and maintains little logical continuity with the first 70 minutes. Which is kind of a shame -- I regret cheap films which are let down by the script -- the part of the film that likely cost the least.
Dr Acula		#53	[-]
Jan 29 13 9:44 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	For me, "who" the ghoul at the end was didn't have the import of "why"... I think that somebody doctored the script (in the film) to create a living zombie/ghoul creature, which brought it to life. I think the cat was killed by the creature as it gained strength, or was part of a ritual to help raise it by Carradine. Not sure if their was a final trigger for it to kill, or if it finally was brought to it's full strength on that final night. Another thing that I like about it is the speed of the end. Once the creature starts killing, it kills and kills again, grabs a cute naked chick, and runs off for parts unknown. It's a great weird end to a strange, fun little film. And the "house', if I recall correctly, was the Governor's house of whatever state it was filmed in. My God, what's Bond doing?... I think he's attempting re-entry, sir. http://www.eccentric-cinema.com/ Cole's Comics: All About Jack Cole http://colescomics.blogspot.com/
kochillt		#54	[-]
Jan 31 13 5:23 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The Utah Governors mansion outside Salt Lake City. The opening scenes featuring the entire cast roaming around all three stories gives a great overview of why it was such a spooky location. David was picking scripture from the Tibetan Book of the Dead to help raise the zombie, yet he himself was already (un)dead. No, it doesn't make any sense.
Spoiler II		#55	[-]
Feb 1 13 10:02 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	All this talk of HOUSE makes me want to revisit it again as i posted previously,i have only seen it once and waayy back in the 80's. I'm a huge fan of CHILDREN SHOULDN'T even despite it's slow pace so i might have to give this one a go soon.
Count Waldemar		#56	[-]
Feb 2 13 3:31 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	atommo wrote: Or when the director is about to get it on with the actress but she loses the mood when she discovers her cat is gone. It sends him into a rage, "Oh...FRITZ the cat!" So that alone would make a guy want to half the cat! That was Faith Domergue, who played the female lead in the 50's sci-fi classic This Island Earth. Aside from that, I pretty much fall in line with the rest of the posters who hold this strange little movie in high regard. As to the nude scene with the final victim (floating under the bridge face up with full frontal nudity) I remember seeing it uncut on WOR 9's Fright Night many, many years ago. The zombie drags her by the hair in one scene prior to that if I remember right. I also remember being somewhat disturbed by it too.
Count Waldemar		#57	[-]
Feb 2 13 3:56 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Joe Karlosi wrote: This felt very much in the spirit of the superior CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS, I thought. And like that film we have to sit through a lot of exposition until we get to the ghoulish mayhem at the very end. There isn't much to recommend for most of the first three quarters, unless you like watching people shoot movies. But I always get a kick out of seeing Carradine wandering about in any horror film. Also starring in this movie is an older Faith Domergue (50's sci-fi beauty) which is interesting. And it's funny watching John Ireland playing the part of the most insufferably arrogant director any underpaid actor would ever want to work for. Good call, Joe. One thing though...Children resorted to a lot of unintentional and black humor, while HOT7C, despite it's faults, had a very uneasy feeling to it, perhaps due to the slow buildup and the atmosphere of the mansion (both inside and out). HOT7C also slowly but steadily made it obvious what was happening each time the book was read from, and that made the feeling a bit more uneasy overall. And, the ending soundtrack and the ghoul dragging the body of the dead girl thru the water made for some truly chilling moments. Not a bad movie overall. I think I'd like to see it again now.
Camps		#58	[-]
Feb 2 13 9:03 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	doctor kiss wrote: Reviews of this film always seem to have commented on the 'choppy' nature of the ending, so it seems probable that any tinkering occurred prior to the film's release. This is certainly conceivable, not least as the movie was partly financed by a Mormon group (the Utah equivalent of Ed Wood's baptists, evidently) who took an active role in overseeing the production. Faith Domergue going from being Howard Hughes's girlfriend (OK, maybe one of many at the time...) a couple decades prior, to being in a no-budget horror flick financed by Mormons. Priceless (no pun intended... for those thinking of the name of Carradine's character...) Anyway, always kinda liked this movie after seeing it on NYC's channel 9 back in the late '70s.
horrorfilmx		#59	[-]
Feb 2 13 11:16 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Joe Karlosi wrote: And it's funny watching John Ireland playing the part of the most insufferably arrogant director any underpaid actor would ever want to work for. I've met worse. Really. Actually one of the things I liked about this movie was the way it captured what it feels like to be working on a low-budget location shoot. Pretty close to the real thing. Aside from that --- well, it tried hard, I certainly give it points for that.
Rob		#60	[-]
Feb 7 13 12:37 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Man, but I love this film. Here's part of a short writeup I did after the last time that I watched it: The House of Seven Corpses is definitely low-budget, and it certainly has its flaws, but it also has an indefinable atmosphere about it that really, really works for me. It's somewhat akin in atmosphere to Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, which I also love dearly. Of all the films that I'd love to see get a special edition released, this would have to be at the top of the list. I'd love to know more about its inception, its critical reception, and why it went from theaters to TV so quickly. (A lot of people mistakenly believe that this was a made-for-TV film, but I've got an original release one sheet poster that proves them wrong.) It was the only feature directed by Paul Harrison, who spent most of his career writing for television. In fact, most of the cast and crew came from television. If I ever make it to Utah, I'm going to visit the former Governor's Mansion where this was shot. Lastly, I must note that, contrary to the title, Rob Zombie's film is NOT approximately 143 times better than this. Okay, back to now. Although the ending is rushed, the ultra-creepy score combined with the brief shots of the reanimated corpse going back to his grave just works for me. I can forgive the film for all of its logically-challenged moments when it pays off in atmosphere of that magnitude. Reading some of the above comments also caused me to think that Ho7C and Roger Corman et al.'s The Terror really aren't too far apart on the horror movie spectrum. Neither of them really makes any sense at all, but they have their moments, and I love them both for the mongrels that they are.
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