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Alien Zone

Titre original : The House of the Dead
  • 1978
  • PG
  • 1h 19min
NOTE IMDb
4,8/10
1,3 k
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Alien Zone (1978)
ComédieCriminalitéHorreurMystèreThrillerComédie noire

Au cours d'une convention un homme s'égare en tentant de retrouver son hôtel et arrive chez un embaumeur qui l'invite à s'abriter chez lui. Il raconte les histoires des personnes qui ont att... Tout lireAu cours d'une convention un homme s'égare en tentant de retrouver son hôtel et arrive chez un embaumeur qui l'invite à s'abriter chez lui. Il raconte les histoires des personnes qui ont atterri dans son établissement.Au cours d'une convention un homme s'égare en tentant de retrouver son hôtel et arrive chez un embaumeur qui l'invite à s'abriter chez lui. Il raconte les histoires des personnes qui ont atterri dans son établissement.

  • Réalisation
    • Sharron Miller
  • Scénario
    • David O'Malley
  • Casting principal
    • John Ericson
    • Ivor Francis
    • Judith Novgrod
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  • NOTE IMDb
    4,8/10
    1,3 k
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    • Réalisation
      • Sharron Miller
    • Scénario
      • David O'Malley
    • Casting principal
      • John Ericson
      • Ivor Francis
      • Judith Novgrod
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    Rôles principaux22

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    John Ericson
    John Ericson
    • Talmudge
    Ivor Francis
    Ivor Francis
    • The Mortician
    Judith Novgrod
    • Miss Sibiler
    Burr DeBenning
    Burr DeBenning
    • Growski
    Charles Aidman
    Charles Aidman
    • Detective Malcolm Toliver
    Bernard Fox
    Bernard Fox
    • Inspector McDowal
    Richard Gates
    • Cantwell
    Elizabeth MacRae
    Elizabeth MacRae
    • Mrs. Lumquist
    Linda Gibboney
    • Julie
    • (as Kathie Gibboney)
    Leslie Paxton
    • Marie
    John King III
    • Marie's Husband
    • (as John King)
    Bo Byers
    • Growski Detective #1
    David O'Malley
    David O'Malley
    • Detective #2
    Robert Telford
    • Maitre'd
    Michael Colley
    • Stan
    Gary Willis
    • Magazine Store Owner
    Robert J. Mildfelt
    • Cantwell Businessman
    Ben Smalley
    • Hanging Man
    • Réalisation
      • Sharron Miller
    • Scénario
      • David O'Malley
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    4BaronBl00d

    Come in from the Rain and REST

    John Ericson ventures out in the rain after having been left off by a cab at the wrong street. Soon he finds refuge in an old building with a friendly mortician that gives him tea and shows him some of his "clients." There are some easy clues early in the wrap-around story for this anthology to tell you where that story is going, especially after having just seen the man prior to getting in the cab have an adulterous pleasure period with someone else's wife. But the frame story is really just a means to allow mortician Ivor Francis to tell his stories about his clients. I always liked Francis for his calm presence and subtle humour, yet here he is given some really bad dialog but does manage to put some life into this otherwise drab little film. The problem with this, also known for some inexplicable reason as Alien Zone(I saw House of the Dead copy), is that the budget here is really minuscule and the stories, what special effects there are, and acting quality are all directly affected. Nothing is shown. I was shocked that we never even got to see the faces of the dead corpses in the coffins - now that is low budget! The first story deals with a teacher who it seems dislikes children - based on one scene of her walking from her car scowling. She then goes home and the supernatural effects of red tinting children wearing masks and wearing what appear as shark teeth begins. Truly terrifying. (Yawn.) The second story has some real bad actor lure women into his apartment so he can film them being killed. It's done in an almost comedic fashion and has virtually no substance at all. Then there is the one story that I did really like and does have a bit of budget and real actors. The third story has Charles Aidman and Bernard Fox as two great detectives out to outwit the other and become the leading criminologist in the world. This episode has some humor and clever dialog and of course both Aidman and especially Fox have acting ability. You get an idea where it is going but should enjoy it nonetheless. It ends way too abruptly though. The last story is pretty decent too as we see a man who seems to be a person that doesn't care about the society around him get locked into an abandoned building and fed on booze until he becomes a boozer like the one he snubbed earlier. Despite its ridiculous story, the effects of despair are not all that bad. Then of course there is the obvious conclusion to the frame story. This movie was cheaply made and has that real cheap feel to it, but it isn't that bad and a couple of the stories are relatively interesting and none so bad as they are not watchable.
    6Coventry

    The non-pathetic House of the Dead

    Whenever the title "House of the Dead" is mentioned nowadays, people – and horror fanatics in particular – automatically link it to that hag Uwe Boll's AWFUL video game horror adaptation about UN-frightening looking CGI zombies on an island. Another movie with the same title existed already since the late 1970's, though it's also known under the completely irrelevant title "Alien Zone", and that one is a lot better! It's a low-budget exploitation attempt to create a horror anthology similar to the contemporary successful British films, like "Tales that Witness Madness" or "Asylum", complete with a detailed wraparound story and a sinister host. Whilst on a business trip in an unknown city, a guy named Talmudge cheats on his wife and gets lost on his way back to the hotel. Since there's a heavy thunderstorm going on, a seemly friendly mortician invites him in and informs him abut the background stories of four "clients" of his. None of these horror mini-tales is groundbreaking or particularly shocking, but they all feature an admirably dark atmosphere and revolve on rather inventive topics. The first story is extremely short and introduces a lonely female schoolteacher with a clear aversion towards children. When she goes home one night, she senses a strange presence in her house and subsequently gets attacked by a large collection of eerily deformed and mask-wearing children. I'm not quite sure what the deeper meaning of this short story was, but those kids sure looked creepy! The second story is – once again – a very short reworking of the classic film "Peeping Tom", with a perverted man inviting girls to his apartment and murdering them for the eye of the camera. The tone of this segment is definitely disturbing, but it has no satisfying ending, since it just cuts back to the mortician who explains the culprit got executed for his crimes. Huh? What's the point? Then comes the third and unquestionably best chapter of "House of the Dead", about an intellectual criminologist competing with his overseas colleague of Scotland Yard for the honor of most deductive police investigator in the world. This segment has an incredibly predictable climax, but it's very enjoyable thanks to the wit dialogs and convincing on screen chemistry between actors Charles Aidman and Bernard Fox. The fourth and final segment hints at some really horrific themes, but unfortunately the elaboration is poor. It's about an egocentric man who gets terrorized by unseen forces and eventually becomes everything he detests himself. Namely a needy and filthy individual who blindly gets passed by on the streets. It's a curious little tale that definitely deserved some more plotting and perhaps a slightly longer playtime. Naturally the film ends with an unmerciful fate for Talmudge (adultery, remember…). The late 70's definitely brought forward better horror films than this, but "House of the Dead" is nonetheless a worthwhile and entertaining little chiller that offers a handful of frights and delightful genre clichés. It's a film for undemanding trash-fans.
    5Zeegrade

    Where the hell did they get Alien Zone from?

    A decent no-frills horror anthology that begins with a cheating husband know only as Talmudge trying to locate his hotel in a taxi during a downpour. When the driver drops him off on a darkly lit street that apparently is not the correct address he drives off leaving Talmudge to fend for himself on a very wet evening. Stumbling upon a residence he encounters an elderly individual who invites him in from the rain which Talmudge nervously excepts. He learns that the old man is a mortician who seems interested in showing him some of his "clients" along with a little backstory on how they met with their respective demises. With an apprehensive Talmudge as his witness the mortician begins. The first story is a short one about a teacher that hates children (I had quite a few of them). When she arrives home she is harassed by what seem to be small children in Halloween masks who turn out to be anything but. The second story is also short and is by far the weakest of the four, concerning a man who likes to videotape himself murdering women. This story literally goes nowhere. Next is a pleasantly engaging number about two of the world's best criminologists, one from New York the other from England, engaged in a spirited investigation when one of them receives a rather cryptic note concerning murder. The ending, though no surprise, is still quite satisfying. Last is sort of an early and gore-free "Saw" as a pompous office worker who has no time for anyone else gets himself trapped in an abandoned store that has been turned into a trap complete with a wall of nails as he is held captive with only a bottle of wine occasionally rolled into his prison by a faceless person. Upon his mysterious release he is transformed into the very blight on society that he himself so loathed. When the stories are finished it is time for Talmudge's come-uppance as this is about punishing people for their sins and he is after all an adulterer to which the mortician has his coffin at the ready.

    You won't recognize anybody in this movie nor will the made-for-t.v. feel instill any genuine fear while watching it. However, I do think that for the most part the stories were pretty interesting considering this was made before both "Creepshow" and "Twilight Zone the Movie" which had bigger budgets. Sadly, when one thinks of "House of the Dead" they more than likely associate it with the Uwe Boll abomination based on the video game rather than this film which is tragic. Why anyone would name this "Alien Zone" is a mystery to me as there isn't a hint of aliens to speak of. I did see the heavily edited 74 minute version as the running time on the DVD jacket said it was 100 minutes long. Twenty six minutes is a lot to cut out so who knows maybe there are aliens in that one. Might be a little too light for hard core horror fans but never the less I recommend giving this flick a shot.
    jeff-728

    4 story shocker has mortician explain the deaths of his clients

    A mortician explains to a man seeking shelter from the rain how the corpses in his mortuary came to be there. There are 4 coffins and as he opens the lid of each one the movie cuts to a short story about how that person died. The first is about a teacher who hates kids. The second about a man who lures women into his home and murders them while capturing it all on film. The second has two top shelf detectives in a battle of wits to see who is the worlds leading criminologist. The fourth is about a man how doesn't give a damn about anyone but himself and is tortured by unseen forces. The man seeking shelter has unknowingly been lured to this place by his own indiscretions. Quite good though the title Alien Zone is somewhat confusing. I bought this movie under the title of House of the Dead which is much more appropriate.
    5bkoganbing

    Stopping By The Mortician On A Rainy Evening

    After a quick night of kanoodling with mistress Leslie Paxton, John Ericson is caught out in the rain, but kindly old mortician Ivor Francis allows him to get out of the cold and wet while he tells him job stories. And for Francis, being a mortician is a job he relishes.

    The title Alien Zone is quite the misnomer because there are no creatures from another planet in this film. Unless you consider the perceptive Francis from another world. Because what Francis does is show him four coffins with bodies inside and tells him about how all of them got there. Apparently no one who is a client at the Francis Funeral Home ever died a really natural death.

    The stories are of an uneven quality, the best being the third one which involves a couple of vain police inspectors, Charles Aidman and Bernard Fox, each thinking he's the world's best detective. The dialog is really good in that story. The others involve Judith Novgrod as a reclusive school teacher who hates kids, Burr DeBenning as a psychotic murderer, and Richard Gates as a selfish yuppie. They all get a good comeuppance in the end.

    Despite a misleading title Alien Zone is not a bad anthology film and how does Ericson and his story fit into all this. Not really hard to figure out even if you don't see the film.

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    • Anecdotes
      The screenplay was originally entitled "Five Faces", and then changed to "Five Faces of Terror" during production. Prior to release, the film's title was changed to "Alien Zone" by the distributor, for unknown reasons, and the film would have its world premiere under this title. The title was later changed again to "House of the Dead" for its wide release.
    • Gaffes
      Hanged man in the third story sometimes changes his position throughout the scene.
    • Citations

      Growski: After strangling Julie -Voila! Your life is gone. It's disappeared

    • Connexions
      Featured in Movie Macabre: House of the Dead (1984)
    • Bandes originales
      The Sound of Goodbye
      Music by Stan Worth (as Stan V. Worth)

      Lyrics by Ayn Robbins

      Performed by Steve March

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    • Date de sortie
      • 14 novembre 1978 (États-Unis)
    • Pays d’origine
      • États-Unis
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • The House of the Dead
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Ponca City, Oklahoma, États-Unis(Detective Toliver & Inspector McDowal dinner, Cantwell on the streets, film's final sequence)
    • Société de production
      • Myriad Cinema International
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      • 685 000 $US (estimé)
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    • Durée
      • 1h 19min(79 min)
    • Couleur
      • Color
    • Mixage
      • Mono
    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.85 : 1

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