The House Where Evil Dwells

1982 "An ancient curse has turned their lives into a nightmare of lust and revenge."
4.5| 1h28m| R| en| More Info
Released: 14 May 1982 Released
Producted By: Toei Company
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At the prompting of his diplomat friend, Alex, writer Ted Fletcher takes his wife, Laura, and daughter, Amy, on an extended working holiday. Alex finds a house for them in Kyoto, Japan, and the Fletchers move in, laughing off rumors that the place is haunted. But the ghost of 19th-century samurai Shigero turns out to be very real, and is intent on making the family re-enact an ancient murder-suicide.

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Horror

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Director

Kevin Connor

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Toei Company

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Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever
Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?
Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.
Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
gavin6942 A young American family moves to a House in Kyoto, Japan. It turns out to be haunted by the ghosts of a woman and her lover, who were killed by the woman's husband, as well as the ghost of the husband, who killed himself afterward.All I can say about this film is that it is a poor attempt at a haunting movie, ghost story or horror film. It is not particularly scary, it does not make much sense and the little blood that it has is outweighed by the nudity. I learned more about Japanese culture watching this than I was entertained.Which is not to say that it is all bad... but it certainly is not all good. The people who made this, who shall remain nameless, threw together a goofy plot and executed it without style or pizazz.
Tornadoes28 This was a surprisingly good film for a 70s style B movie with an awesome ending, and I mean awesome. The movie begins set in the mid 19th century with a samurai who discover his wife cheating with another man. The husband flies into a rage and slaughters them before committing seppuku. This all took place in the small house that later in the 20th century would be rented to the American family. And that's when all the crazy stuff begins. The family starts experiencing more and more odd events in the home including giant crabs that terrorize the daughter. For some reason all three ghosts work together to manipulate the wife and husband leading them down a path to destruction involving the family friend. Inexplicably, rather than just getting the hell out of that freak house, the couple decide to seek the assistance of a local odd Buddhist monk. But the monks efforts were not enough to hold off the manipulative ghosts. All this manipulation from the three ghosts eventually leads to the awesome final scene.This is absolutely a corny and humorous movie because of the 70s style, the goofy low tech translucent blue ghosts, and giant crabs, but it was also a very entertaining film even before the kick ass ending. One of the other positives of this film is that it included one or two good nude scenes along with the entertaining 70s aspects, a couple of good bloody sword scenes and the killer ending makes this a highly recommended movie to see.
steveklein I saw this film at a pre-release screening at the Writers Guild theater in Beverly Hills. As I recall, the film's producers and director were in attendance, presumably to gage our reaction.Many scenes evoked gales of laughter from the audience, which would have been fine if it had been a comedy, but it was supposed to be a horror film.If the audience wasn't scared, it seems the filmmakers were. They delayed release for over a year. Out of curiosity I saw it again to see if they'd re-cut it; as far as I can tell, they hadn't. It was the same lousy movie, just a year older.It almost qualifies as "so bad, it's good," but it's slow-paced and boring.
TheVampyreSyndicateCom After watching this movie I had to ask myself was this a rip-off of the shining? They are too similar in content. Here we have a couple with a child he's a writer, and they move into a new place (a house in Japan that was gotten cheaply due to it supposedly being haunted) where the fun begins (Sound Familiar?) The house IS haunted and the spirits like to posess the occupants. With all thats going on the husband won't leave the house until he finishes his writing (Talk about putting work ahead of the family). I imagine if your into "any" haunted movie this will be a pleasure for you, but their are no scares to be had in this in my opinion. Although I wont go into detail I will say the ending was un-expected.