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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA couple inherits a mansion, but when they move in they discover that it is haunted by the murderous spirits of people who have died there.A couple inherits a mansion, but when they move in they discover that it is haunted by the murderous spirits of people who have died there.A couple inherits a mansion, but when they move in they discover that it is haunted by the murderous spirits of people who have died there.
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- Scénario
- Casting principal
George Ardisson
- Casati
- (as Giorgio Ardisson)
Paul Teitcheid
- Housekeeper
- (as Paul Theisheid)
Antonio Campa
- Tony
- (as Tony Campa)
Ileana Fraia
- Sonia
- (as Ileana Fraja)
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A group of heirs to a mysterious old mansion find out that they have to live in it as part of a clause in the will or be disinherited, but they soon find out of its history of everybody whom had lived there before them having either died in weird accidents or having had killed each other.
You've seen it all before, and this one is too low-budget and slow paced to be scary, and doesn't have any real surprises in the climax. No special effects or gore to speak of, in fact the only really amusing thing about the whole film is the quality of the English dubbing, which at times is as bad as a cheap martial arts movie.
3 out of 10, pretty low in the pecking order of 80's haunted house movies.
You've seen it all before, and this one is too low-budget and slow paced to be scary, and doesn't have any real surprises in the climax. No special effects or gore to speak of, in fact the only really amusing thing about the whole film is the quality of the English dubbing, which at times is as bad as a cheap martial arts movie.
3 out of 10, pretty low in the pecking order of 80's haunted house movies.
Horror movie about a cursed house in Turin and the three relatives who inherit it.
Two brothers and their cousin Elisa (who haven't seen each other since childhood) are brought together after their mother's death.
They inherit her house under the condition that they live there together and never divide or sell the property.
It's haunted and after many ghostly nightmares and some murders, Elisa finds a diary in the attic, learning that she is the sole survivor of "the seventh damned generation."
Yikes. That's quite a yard to swallow.
The movie really stinks.
Extraordinarily poor production standards. Bad amateurish music.
Just horrible.
Two brothers and their cousin Elisa (who haven't seen each other since childhood) are brought together after their mother's death.
They inherit her house under the condition that they live there together and never divide or sell the property.
It's haunted and after many ghostly nightmares and some murders, Elisa finds a diary in the attic, learning that she is the sole survivor of "the seventh damned generation."
Yikes. That's quite a yard to swallow.
The movie really stinks.
Extraordinarily poor production standards. Bad amateurish music.
Just horrible.
Now, I LOVE Italian horror films. The cheesier they are, the better. However, this is not cheesy Italian. This is week-old spaghetti sauce with rotting meatballs. It is amateur hour on every level. There is no suspense, no horror, with just a few drops of blood scattered around to remind you that you are in fact watching a horror film. The "special effects" consist of the lights changing to red whenever the ghost (or whatever it was supposed to be) is around, and a string pulling bed sheets up and down. Oooh, can you feel the chills? The DVD quality is that of a VHS transfer (which actually helps the film more than hurts it). The dubbing is below even the lowest "bad Italian movie" standards and I gave it one star just because the dialogue is so hilarious! And what do we discover when she finally DOES look in the attic (in a scene that is daytime one minute and night the next)...well, I won't spoil it for anyone who really wants to see, but let's just say that it isn't very "novel"!
Also known as House of the Damned, Don't Look in the Attic is one of those horror films the title of which explicitly warns somebody not to do something, but they do it anyway. During a seance, a disembodied voice also warns Elisa (Annarita Grapputo) 'Don't go to Turin!', so she books a flight to Turin. After taking her obligatory horror movie shower, Elisa notices words written in the condensation on her bathroom mirror: Don't go to the villa! The property in question is the one that she has inherited along with her cousins Tony (Antonio Campa) and Bruno (Fausto Lombardi), a supposedly accursed villa with a history of mysterious deaths. She moves in. She deserves everything that's coming to her!
While living at the villa (which, judging by the noises that can be heard outside, is in the middle of a jungle), brothers Tony and Bruno come to blows, Elisa unable to prevent them from fighting. Spooky stuff starts to happen, including strange otherworldly lights and a bed sheet that draws back by itself (an amazing special effect achieved by attaching a string to the sheet). After Bruno's wife is hit by a car, he proposes to Elisa so that she can bear him a son (hmm... cousins!). Meanwhile, the family lawyer Ugo (Jean-Pierre Aumont) investigates his business partner Casati (George Ardisson), encouraged by his ex-lover Martha (Beba Loncar), who suspects that all is not right. Other stuff happens, but it's all so incredibly dull and none of it makes much sense. Director Carlo Ausino achieves zero suspense, delivers no scares, and no gore, and the whole affair really drags. A total dud.
While living at the villa (which, judging by the noises that can be heard outside, is in the middle of a jungle), brothers Tony and Bruno come to blows, Elisa unable to prevent them from fighting. Spooky stuff starts to happen, including strange otherworldly lights and a bed sheet that draws back by itself (an amazing special effect achieved by attaching a string to the sheet). After Bruno's wife is hit by a car, he proposes to Elisa so that she can bear him a son (hmm... cousins!). Meanwhile, the family lawyer Ugo (Jean-Pierre Aumont) investigates his business partner Casati (George Ardisson), encouraged by his ex-lover Martha (Beba Loncar), who suspects that all is not right. Other stuff happens, but it's all so incredibly dull and none of it makes much sense. Director Carlo Ausino achieves zero suspense, delivers no scares, and no gore, and the whole affair really drags. A total dud.
I saw the Mogul Video VHS of this. That's another one of those old 1980s distributors whose catalog I wish I had!
This movie was pretty poor. Though retitled "Don't Look in the Attic," the main admonition that is repeated in this is "Don't go to the villa." Just getting on the grounds of the villa is a bad idea. A character doesn't go into the attic until an hour into the movie, and actually should have done it earlier because of what is learned there.
The movie starts in Turin, Italy in the 1950s. Two men are fighting, and a woman is telling them the villa is making them do it. One man kills the other, then regrets it, and the woman pulls out the knife and stabs him with it. She flees the villa, and after she's left a chair moves by itself (what's the point of that?), but when in the garden a hand comes up through the ground and drags he into the earth.
From there, it's the present day, thirty years later. There's a séance that appears suddenly and doesn't appear to have anything to do with the movie. The children of the woman from the prologue are inheriting the house. The main daughter is played by the same actress who played her mother. At least one of the two men from the prologue seems to reoccur as another character too. She's haunted by some warnings not to go to the villa, but they all do, since if they do not use it, they forfeit it. People die. A lawyer who has won all his cases tries to investigate a little. The ending is pretty poor. Why was the family cursed? An unfortunately boring movie.
There's an amusing small-print disclaimer on the back of the video box that reads "The scenes depicted on this packaging may be an artist's impression and may not necessarily represent actual scenes from the film." In this case, the cover of the box is an illustration that does more or less accurately depict the aforementioned woman dragged underground scene, although there are two hands, and the woman is different. It's true, sometimes the cover art has nothing to do with the movie. I also recall seeing a reviewer who had a bad movie predictor scale, in which movies with illustrations on the cover instead of photos got at least one point for that.
This movie was pretty poor. Though retitled "Don't Look in the Attic," the main admonition that is repeated in this is "Don't go to the villa." Just getting on the grounds of the villa is a bad idea. A character doesn't go into the attic until an hour into the movie, and actually should have done it earlier because of what is learned there.
The movie starts in Turin, Italy in the 1950s. Two men are fighting, and a woman is telling them the villa is making them do it. One man kills the other, then regrets it, and the woman pulls out the knife and stabs him with it. She flees the villa, and after she's left a chair moves by itself (what's the point of that?), but when in the garden a hand comes up through the ground and drags he into the earth.
From there, it's the present day, thirty years later. There's a séance that appears suddenly and doesn't appear to have anything to do with the movie. The children of the woman from the prologue are inheriting the house. The main daughter is played by the same actress who played her mother. At least one of the two men from the prologue seems to reoccur as another character too. She's haunted by some warnings not to go to the villa, but they all do, since if they do not use it, they forfeit it. People die. A lawyer who has won all his cases tries to investigate a little. The ending is pretty poor. Why was the family cursed? An unfortunately boring movie.
There's an amusing small-print disclaimer on the back of the video box that reads "The scenes depicted on this packaging may be an artist's impression and may not necessarily represent actual scenes from the film." In this case, the cover of the box is an illustration that does more or less accurately depict the aforementioned woman dragged underground scene, although there are two hands, and the woman is different. It's true, sometimes the cover art has nothing to do with the movie. I also recall seeing a reviewer who had a bad movie predictor scale, in which movies with illustrations on the cover instead of photos got at least one point for that.
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- AnecdotesDirector Carlo Ausino is credited as "Charles Austin" on English prints but under his real name on Italian ones.
- GaffesWhen praising Francois to Elissa, Lucy seems to have gotten out half the sentence with her lips before the audio kicks in, and her mouth continues to move after the sound stops.
- ConnexionsReferenced in Wacko (1982)
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By what name was House of the Damned (1982) officially released in India in English?
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