Synopsis
A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove/disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House.
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Cast
- Pamela FranklinFlorence Tanner
- Roddy McDowallBenjamin Franklin Fischer
- Clive RevillDr. Lionel Barrett
- Gayle HunnicuttAnn Barrett
- Roland CulverMr. Rudolph Deutsch
- Peter BowlesHanley
- Michael GoughEmeric Belasco (uncredited)
- Miles Jonn-DaltonRoyal Duke (uncredited)
Recommendations
- 80
Variety
Richard Matheson's scripting of his novel Hell House builds into an exceptionally realistic and suspenseful tale of psychic phenomena. - 70
Los Angeles Times
Visually, by today's standards, The Legend of Hell House is pretty tame, but what it may lack in visual acuity is more than made up for in atmosphere and sheer creepiness. [29 Oct 1992, p.30] - 63
Slant Magazine
The Legend of Hell House is a regrettably just-competent adaptation of a great American horror novel. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
While director John Hough (Twins of Evil) does a fine job with the things-that-go-bump-in-the-night aspects of the material, he fails to breathe any life into Richard Matheson's woefully underdeveloped screenplay, which he adapted from his own novel. - 40
The New York Times
If John Hough, the director, and his small, willing cast maintain mild tension during their harried visit to this haunted "hell house," the few chills they provide are of little help. - 40
Time Out
Trivialising the theme, saddled with some terrible dialogue, needlessly tricked out with a lot of countdown-style dates, it founders into innocuous routine.
