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A Review of "The House of Seven Corpses"


This film is a study in how much a bad ending can affect an opinion on what was otherwise a decent film. We will address that later. As The House of Seven Corpses rolled on, I kept telling myself how surprising it was to see it have such a low rating on IMDB (a 3.9 as of this review). It started out with a thrilling and mysterious scene as the opening credits began, the story managed to be interesting and not predictable, and the acting wasn’t half bad. Then came the ending. But first, a recap: John Ireland plays a semi-tyrannical film director who is shooting a movie in a haunted mansion. During the house’s hundred-plus year history, seven people were murdered in various ways (illustrated in the credits). There is a creepy caretaker (John Carradine) who becomes bothersome to the production because he thinks the crew is not sticking closely enough to the true story about what happened there. He warns them to not continue but is just seen as crazy and annoying. By adding scenes of witchcraft and evil conjuring, the film-within-a-film’s cast and crew accidentally conjure up something on set. The cemetery on the grounds has eight graves, but only seven have tombstones. Who is buried in the unnamed plot? We find out during the utterly atrocious ending scenes.

Read the rest of the review at https://gcaggiano.wordpress.com/2015/10/02/halloween-twenty-fifteen-a-review-of-the-house-of-seven-corpses-1974/

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