The House of the Dead (1978)

Directed by

Sharron Miller

Genre

horror film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

PG

Rating

4.8 of 10 from 40 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man caught in a rainstorm seeks shelter in a mortician's home. The mortician tells him four stories about the dead bodies in his care.

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What happens

The House of the Dead (also known as Alien Zone) is a 1978 American anthology horror film directed by Sharron Miller, and the only feature film Miller has directed. The film's ensemble cast includes John Ericson, Ivor Francis, Judith Novgrod, Burr DeBenning, Charles Aidman, Bernard Fox, and Richard Gates, along with Elizabeth MacRae, Linda Gibboney, Leslie Paxton, and John King. It consists of four short stories built into a frame narrative about a man who takes refuge from a rainstorm in the residence of a mortician, with the four stories relating the fates of four corpses in the mortician's care. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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