The House of the Seven Corpses Reviews

This cheapie horror movie stars Ireland as the director of a cheapie horror movie being filmed in the haunted mansion where the murder on which the script is based actually took place. During the shoot a secret room full of black magic paraphernalia is found. Then the star of the film within the film, Domergue (THIS ISLAND EARTH; IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA), reads a passage from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, inadvertently summoning up a ghoul that begins killing off cast and crew. Carradine is on hand as the proprietor of the mansion (which, in real life, was once the official residence of the governor of Utah). A decent script, a better-than-usual cast for this sort of thing, and some impressive direction from low-budget auteur Harrison (writer of the long-defunct "H.R. Puf `n' Stuff" children's show) help make this a fairly watchable effort. Too bad the color on most prints in atrocious.