My World Dies Screaming (1958)

Directed by

Harold Daniels

Genre

horror film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A newlywed woman named Sheila moves into a Florida mansion with her husband Philip. She discovers the house matches a recurring nightmare she had, and Philip has a secret plan related to his family's past.

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What happens

Terror in the Haunted House (originally titled My World Dies Screaming) is a 1958 American horror film produced by William S. Edwards and directed by Harold Daniels. The movie stars Gerald Mohr, Cathy O'Donnell, William Ching, and John Qualen. Its plot follows newlywed Sheila, who moves with her husband Philp into a rural Florida mansion which she is horrified to discover was the subject of a recurring nightmare for which she sought psychiatric care in Switzerland. The house is the key to events that have haunted her husband's family for a generation, and Philip's intent is to use her mind to unlock the mystery. The film is notable for being one of only two movies shot in Psychorama, a stylistic gimmick which incorporated subliminal imaging onscreen. Psychorama, also known as the Precon Process, is an example of the "pure hype and hucksterism" which was a component of the "effort to (...) cash in on the mid-1950s controversy over subliminal advertising." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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