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The House of Seven Corpses (1974)

The House of Seven Corpses poster
Directed by
Paul Harrison
Genre
horror film, zombie film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
18
Rating
4.7 of 10 from 41 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A film crew shoots a horror movie in a house where a family was murdered. After reading from a cursed book, strange and deadly events start happening to the crew.

creepysupernaturalatmosphericslow-burnunsettlinggrimlow-budgetclassic-horror

What happens

The House of Seven Corpses is a 1973 American supernatural horror film directed by Paul Harrison and starring John Ireland, Faith Domergue, and John Carradine. Its plot follows a film crew making a horror film about various members of a family who met violent deaths, which they film on location in the historic home where the events took place. After filming a scene in which a character reads from The Book of the Dead, the crew is plagued by supernatural occurrences. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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