- Actors: Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Jonathan Fuller, Massimo Sarchielli
- Directors: Stuart Gordon
- Format: PAL
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 18
- Studio: film 2000
- DVD Release Date: 20 Oct 2008
- Run Time: 104 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B001HRPXCA
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 43,652 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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Stuart Gordon classic. Contains strong bloody violence, some sexual scenes.
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Jeffrey Combs/ Reanimator series House on the Haunted Hill From Beyond
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Director Stuart Gordon (he of Re-Animator, From Beyond and Dagon fame) does it again - getting himself all down and dirty with a neat little brutal horror flick that looks like it cost twenty dollars - but his sheer expertise behind the camera ensures he makes that low budget count in every scene.
The screenplay (by longtime Gordon alumnus Dennis Paoli) is a strictly by the numbers exercise - (freak locked up in castle, gets loose and terrorises mild-mannered family), but the sheer verbosity that is displayed and the dedication to its ghoulish thrills help elevate this movie ahead of the pack - the gloomy cinematography and the authentic italian gothic setting propel this monster along. Yet again, Re-animator favorites Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton turn in great performances, but it is the Freak who is the showstopper. Beautifully designed and wonderfully portrayed - a great tragic monster in the old horror movie style.
Well worth a look if you missed it on its initial late 90s release. Worth re-discovering if you did. Recommended.
The screenplay (by longtime Gordon alumnus Dennis Paoli) is a strictly by the numbers exercise - (freak locked up in castle, gets loose and terrorises mild-mannered family), but the sheer verbosity that is displayed and the dedication to its ghoulish thrills help elevate this movie ahead of the pack - the gloomy cinematography and the authentic italian gothic setting propel this monster along. Yet again, Re-animator favorites Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton turn in great performances, but it is the Freak who is the showstopper. Beautifully designed and wonderfully portrayed - a great tragic monster in the old horror movie style.
Well worth a look if you missed it on its initial late 90s release. Worth re-discovering if you did. Recommended.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Stuart Gordon redressed his pointless attempt at the vampire genre from 1987 with 'The Pit And The Pendulum' and this 90s horror-it would stay the best horror of the 90s alongside Wes Craven's 'People Under The Stairs' until his 'Scream' appeared. And while this is not as grand as the Stu's perfect 80s horror trilogy of 'Re-Animator', 'From Beyond' and 'Dolls', this creepy, claustrophobic nerve-tingler frays the nerves, pounds the stomach and delivers atmopshere, shocks and horror with pleasing reliability.
Gordon's stalwarts Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton are a married couple on permanent edge due to his drinking and a car accident that took their young son away and blinded their daughter. These three inherit a castle in Italy-and sadly something comes with it...something crazily angry, brutalised, savage, strong and with a taste for freedom-and flesh.
It's lovely to have this transfered to DVD-especially as the old VHS copy I had had several key scenes of delightful nastiness spliced-how rude! When a film is as intense as a Stuart Gordon one, you know you are not going to get a happy ending but the ride will be a worthy one. There's even a little bit of chit-chat and FX leftover for an extras gift on the disc-this will come up on the menu; there is no mention of it on the back of the DVD case.
This is a good price and a decent movie with a cool monster and a nice wallow in proper horror when it meant so much more than the stanglehold of neverending non-horror slashers, cannibals, A-listers being dead-and-not-knowing-it, remakes and biopics of serial killers masquerading as terror today!
Gordon's stalwarts Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton are a married couple on permanent edge due to his drinking and a car accident that took their young son away and blinded their daughter. These three inherit a castle in Italy-and sadly something comes with it...something crazily angry, brutalised, savage, strong and with a taste for freedom-and flesh.
It's lovely to have this transfered to DVD-especially as the old VHS copy I had had several key scenes of delightful nastiness spliced-how rude! When a film is as intense as a Stuart Gordon one, you know you are not going to get a happy ending but the ride will be a worthy one. There's even a little bit of chit-chat and FX leftover for an extras gift on the disc-this will come up on the menu; there is no mention of it on the back of the DVD case.
This is a good price and a decent movie with a cool monster and a nice wallow in proper horror when it meant so much more than the stanglehold of neverending non-horror slashers, cannibals, A-listers being dead-and-not-knowing-it, remakes and biopics of serial killers masquerading as terror today!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
A really nice b-horror movie by Reanimator's and many other cult films director Stuart Gordon, starring Jeffrey Combs as in that very same debut film. Man no wonder I'd never seen this on the telly before. I'm a veteran gore/horror film connaisseur and thought nothing could surprise me anymore, but this puppy did ! Lots of revulsive gore/nudity/cruelty/explicit sex combined will make you send your children to bed early. Seriously, this film deserves an X rating at the very least (and I'm no moralist ! ). Cruel as few other films, the plot is solid and develops to a tragic and impressive grand finale in the style of the big classics (no I'm not telling you the argument) . Good if somewhat poor special effects more than made up for by the aforementioned characteristics. The dvd trasnfer, on the other side, deserves a separate commentary. 4:3, direct-from-vhs transfer with many a dropout and a picture that's veiled with a white mist, with no blacks to speak of, poor definition and little color, but all of this flaws can be corrected quite satisfactorily with the TV controls. The sound is 2.0 and OK if you just bother to switch you loudness control on. Highly recommendable !!!! 1995 - 93'.
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>>>WIDESCREEN<<< YES PLEASE!!!
This movie is directed by awesome man Stuart Gordon who also directed Re-Animator, Pit and the Pendulum and From Beyond! Read more
Published 7 days ago by DiscoJames
"..CLASSIC RETRO HORROR.."
This is a pretty awesome Stuart Gordon horror movie, certainly one of his best after Re-animator, this was made in 1995 and stars the brilliant Jeffrey Combs who is in most of... Read more
Published 12 days ago by S. Drury
Probably Gordon's best 90's film
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Published 11 months ago by West25
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Very Good release: a lot of additional materials and the picture has a 4:3 transfer Open Matte. Thanks for the release FILM2000!
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