Lee Eisenberg One of the lesser known British horror flicks from the '60s depicts a husband and wife going to a house where mysterious things start happening. A big difference is that this one is set in the US, and Oliver Reed affects a US accent for his character. The movie itself is nothing special, although the end is a bit of a surprise. Carol Lynley is certainly a babe. The version that I saw had the edges cut off, so the opening sequence was confusing.Basically, it's no Peter Cushing or Christopher Lee movie, but it's enjoyable enough for its run time. The British horror flick from 1967 that I recommend, though, is "It!", starring Roddy McDowall as a man who comes into possession of a golem.

aristotle61 This movie makes me want to track down the people who made it and make them watch their own movie. Virtually everything about this movie is terrible. The noise, I mean music, you hear at the beginning of the movie is just the beginning of your suffering if you continue to watch the movie. The music isn't even music, it's just fingers scratching a chalkboard. The acting is lousy. Oliver Reed, and Gig Young must have been desperate for money when they made this garbage. It fits Carol Lynley because she never could act.The story is beyond absurd. H.P. Lovecraft must be spinning in his grave. Just read the story because if you are a fan of HP Lovecraft, you will not be happy seeing what they have done with "The Shuttered Room." The setting for the story is all wrong. It's based in the sixties but they still act like it's the eighteen hundreds.I really resent having to give this movie one star.

HumanoidOfFlesh "The Shuttered Room" is a Lovecraftian classic based on one of the 'joint' stories that August Derleth wrote from Lovecraft's unfinished notes after his death.It certainly uses 'Dunwich' and 'Whately' pretty often.The action takes place on a remote island.The old mill hides deadly secret in the attic.Sarah(Carol Lynley)brings her husband to visit her childhood home,but the community of the island is hostile and not very welcoming."The Shuttered Room" reminded me Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs" with its central theme of sexual assault in a remote village.The air of menace is well-captured,the acting is impressive and several scenes have a strange,almost ethereal quality.The 'Old Mill' was an actual mill near Norwich in south-east England.On 30th May 1966 the mill was burnt to the ground for the film "The Shuttered Room".I can't believe that the filmmakers did this to such unique fantastic-looking watermill.9 out of 10.

LCShackley The problem with SHUTTERED ROOM is that the writer and director seem to be making two films side by side.The first is a standard "haunted house" flick, where an innocent couple come to claim an old mill house that everyone in the neighborhood seems afraid of. That plot, with its prologue and resolution, would have made a decent TV episode.But there's also a sort of backwoods British "Deliverance" film happening at the same time, where some slack-jawed character actors (doing pretty good American accents), led by the always menacing Oliver Reed, try to lure the lovely Carol Lynley away from her seemingly clueless husband, Gig Young. You'd think that Gig would catch on earlier and keep his wife on a short leash (for her own safety). But no...she's always putting herself at risk and even Gig's silly karate skills can't always save her.HP Lovecraft fans will look in vain for the touch of "the master," since this film is based loosely on a story clapped together by August Derleth, best known for picking the literary bones of the Lovecraft estate.This film could have fallen in the same category as WICKER MAN; even the look of the film shares some similarities. But it's nowhere near as eerie, and without the visceral punch.