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The Legend of Hell House is a British film of genre Fantastic directed by John Hough released in USA on 15 june 1973 with Pamela Franklin
The Legend of Hell House (1973)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 15 june 1973
Length 1h30
Directed by John Hough
OriginUnited-kingdom
Themes Ghost films
Rating66%
The Legend of Hell House is a 1973 British horror film directed by John Hough and based on the American novel Hell House by Richard Matheson, who also wrote the screenplay. The film stars Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill, and Gayle Hunnicutt as a group of physicists and parapsychologists who spend a week in a purportedly haunted English manor in which previous investigators were killed while doing research.
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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 twisted and sadistic desires.Actors
Pamela Franklin
(Florence Tanner)
Roddy McDowall
(Benjamin Franklin Fischer)
Clive Revill
(Dr. Lionel Barrett)
Gayle Hunnicutt
(Ann Barrett)
Roland Culver
(Mr. Rudolph Deutsch)
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