The House of Seven Corpses

1974
The House of Seven Corpses
4.2| 1h30m| en| More Info
Released: 01 February 1974 Released
Producted By: Television Corporation of America
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A director is filming on location in a house where seven murders were committed. The caretaker warns them not to mess with things they do not understand (the murders were occult related), but the director wants to be as authentic as possible and has his cast re-enact rituals that took place in the house thus summoning a ghoul from the nearby cemetery to bump the whole film crew off one by one.

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Rainey Dawn I liked this film - it's got the idea of a spooky haunted house, the occult incantations and a ghoul that has been resurrected. The idea of a film crew in a place supposedly haunted is nothing new to the 1970s - take a look at Boris Karloff's "Frankenstein 1970 (1958 film)". But both movies are different just the film crew and the fact both are horror films are the only similarities between them. Speaking of ghouls and Boris Karloff, check out Karloff's "The Ghoul (1933)".This film, "House of Seven Corpses", is not all that bad of a film - if you like the 1970s style of horror and films that pay homage to (or throwbacks to) the earlier films. Sure this film is a bit slow, that I will admit, but it does build to a pretty good last 25 minutes. The one disappointment with the ending is they do not give us a final scene where things are sorta summoned up and explained a bit more to the viewer, otherwise it's just a pretty good silly horror film - nonsense to enjoy.7/10
LeonLouisRicci For Horror Completest only, this is not an awful attempt at making a low-budget Horror Movie about the making of a low-budget Horror Movie. But it is too confusing in Plot development and is an erratic and disjointed delivery of an incoherent Storyline.This does have a few ironic Scenes but the Movie within the Movie contains the best Violent and disturbing Horror Movie turns and since it is known that these are being filmed there is a total lack of scariness.There are elements of a good First-Draft Script here that seems abandon and rushed. The layers are thin and the in-comprehensiveness is just too much to make this an enjoyable Entertainment. Not enough incompetence to make it a Good Bad Movie and not enough Professionalism to make it anything more than a lifeless look inside the backside of B-Movie Making.
GL84 Attempting to shoot a horror movie on a cursed location where the real life murders they're emulating occurred, a film crew accidentally conjures a deformed being that slowly begins killing them off one-by-one.A slightly disappointing but overall quite creepy effort, this one really could've been great with the fixing of a few minor details. The main issue at hand here is the remarkably slow-paced offering, as there's just hardly anything going on but the movie shoot for the entire running time in the first hour, leaving this to rely on it's other efforts to work but basically doesn't even get started with it's killing until the hour mark or even making any mention of the killer until then and it causes the film to go along quite slowly. This is the most disturbing feature since the rest of the film is quite nice, with a large Victorian house serving as the basis for both the film and the movie being shot there giving off an incredible atmosphere, the slow-building set-up making for a chilly time and the rampage by the decomposing corpse being quite bloody and enjoyable, but overall it's just really hurt by it's slow set-up.Rated R: Violence and Language.
bkoganbing John Carradine, John Ireland, and Faith Domergue who as players all saw better days in better films got together for this Grade G horror film about life imitating art in a mysterious mansion.For Carradine it was in those last two decades of his career that he appeared in anything on the theory it was better to keep working no matter what you did and get those paychecks coming in. With that magnificent sonorous voice of his, Carradine was always in great demand for horror pictures and the man did not discriminate in the least in what he appeared in.He plays the caretaker of an old Gothic mansion who movie director John Ireland has rented for his latest low budget slasher film. It's even got a graveyard, but with a missing occupant. Faith Domergue is Ireland's aging star and Carole Wells is the young ingenue.In the last twenty minutes or so most of the cast winds up dead that aren't dead already. The script is so incoherent I'm still trying to figure out the point. I won't waste any more gray matter on it.