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The House Where Evil Dwells (1982)

The House Where Evil Dwells poster
Directed by
Kevin Connor
Genre
horror film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 28m
Rated
R
Rating
4.1 of 10 from 41 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An American family moves into a house in Kyoto, Japan that is rumored to be haunted. The house has a violent history involving a samurai murder-suicide from 1840.

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What happens

The House Where Evil Dwells is a 1982 supernatural horror film directed by Kevin Connor and starring Edward Albert, Susan George, and Doug McClure. It follows an American family that moves into a reputed haunted house in the hills of Kyoto, Japan, where a samurai committed a murder-suicide in 1840. It was based on a novel by James Hardiman and turned into a screenplay by Robert Suhosky. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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