‘Eight graves! Seven bodies! One killer… and he’s already dead!’
The House of Seven Corpses is a 1973 American supernatural horror film written, produced and directed by Paul Harrison (a writer on children’s TV show H.R. Pufnstuf).
The movie stars John Ireland (Incubus; Satan’s Cheerleaders; Welcome to Arrow Beach), Faith Domergue (So Evil, My Sister; Cult of the Cobra; This Island Earth), John Carradine (The Nesting; Las Vampiras; House of Frankenstein), Carole Wells (Molly and the Ghost), Charles Macaulay (Blacula; Tower of London), Jerry Strickler, Ron Foreman, Dennis Record, Marty Hornstein, Charles Bail, Lucy Doheny, Jo Anne Mower, cinematographer Ronald Víctor García, Jeff Alexander, Wells Bond [as The Ghoul].
Plot:
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…
Previously released via badly cropped, censored and muddy transfers, the film was finally be available in HD by Severin Films on 11th June 2013, transferred from original vault materials and featuring an exclusive archive interview with horror icon John Carradine (a DVD/Blu-Ray first) and an audio commentary with co-producer Gary Kent and film historian Lars Nilsen.
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“As they’re picked off one by one, the production is put on hold, which is a shame since the director of the film-within-the-film gets some great lines as he shouts at his truly rubbish cast: “You’re supposed to be going into a trance, not having an orgasm!” Jamie Russell, Book of the Dead: The Complete History of Zombie Cinema
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Cast and characters:
John Ireland as Eric Hartman
Faith Domergue as Gayle Dorian
John Carradine as Edgar Price
Carole Wells as Anne
Charles Macaulay as Christopher Millan
Jerry Strickler as David
Ron Foreman as Ron
Dennis Record as Tommy [credited as Larry Record]
Charles Bail as Jonathon Anthony Beal/Theodore Beal
Lucy Doheny as Suzanne Beal
Jo Anne Mower as Allison Beal
Ron Garcia as Charles Beal
Jeff Alexander as Russell Beal
Wells Bond as The Ghoul
Filming locations:
Utah Governor’s Mansion in Salt Lake City
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