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The House That Would Not Die (1970)

The House That Would Not Die poster
Directed by
John Llewellyn Moxey
Genre
horror fiction
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 14m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 25 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman inherits an old house and moves in with her niece. They discover the house is haunted by a restless spirit from the past.

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What happens

The House That Would Not Die is a 1970 American made-for-television supernatural horror film starring Barbara Stanwyck (in her television film debut), Richard Egan, Michael Anderson Jr. and Kitty Winn. It premiered as the ABC Movie of the Week on October 27, 1970. Henry Farrell, author of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, wrote the teleplay based on the 1968 novel Ammie Come Home by Barbara Michaels, one of several pseudonyms used by author Barbara Mertz. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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