Fri 19 Jul 2019
Movie Trailers I’m Watching, Selected by Jonathan Lewis: HORROR HOUSE (1969).
Posted by Steve under Horror movies , Movie & TV Trailers[2] Comments
Horror House aka The Haunted House of Horror is a strange movie that defies easy categorization. Essentially a British giallo film, this Tigon Productions release from 1969 stars a nearly thirty-year old Frankie Avalon as a hip British teen (!!) who becomes embroiled in a murder mystery outside swinging London.
The trailer doesn’t do a particularly effective job in conveying just how stylish the movie is, nor how shockingly gory it is in a few particularly sequences. Apparently both David Bowie and Boris Karloff were considered for roles in the movie, with Dennis Price taking the role meant for the latter. I can’t say that the plot, after it unfolds, is all that coherent. But it isn’t easily forgotten.
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July 19th, 2019 at 1:36 pm
Unfortunately Frankie Avalon couldn’t overcome being Frankie Avalon, not even in a Sumuru movie. He was fine in many films, but the aura of bikini beach movies hung over him even wearing a coonskin hat in THE ALAMO.
July 19th, 2019 at 1:44 pm
Exactly, you half expect Don Rickles to show up