| The Ghosts of Hanley House | |
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| Directed by | Louise Sherrill |
| Written by | Louise Sherrill (writer) |
| Produced by | Joseph Durkin Jr. (producer) |
| Starring | Elsie Baker Barbara Chase Wilkie de Martel Roberta Reeves Cliff Scott Leonard Shoemaker |
| Cinematography | Claude Fullerton |
| Edited by | Frances Durkin |
| Music by | David C. Parsons |
Production company | Victoria Productions |
| Distributed by | Sinister Cinema (VHS) |
Release date |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Ghosts of Hanley House is a 1968 Americanhorror film written and directed by Louise Sherrill.
A young man accepts a bet to stay in a house with some friends, where several murders have occurred. However, the house may be haunted, or the original murderer could still be lurking nearby.
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The film was released for the first time onDVD byAlpha Video on March 23, 2004.[1][2]
The Ghosts of Hanley House was not reviewed by mainstream critics. Reviews that exist of the film have been mostly negative.
On his websiteFantastic Movie Musings and Ramblings, Dave Sindelar criticized the film's acting and direction as abysmal, and also criticized the inconsistent sound and lighting, as well as the slow pacing.[3] Wes R. fromOh, the Horror! called the film "extremely bland", also writing, "A film like this would have been understandable in the 50s, but by 1968, you’d think that the filmmakers could’ve at least tried a little bit harder to make a halfway interesting and watchable film."[4] Steve Langton fromThe Spinning Image gave the film 1/10 stars, writing, "Louise Sherrill’s ‘regional’ horror film (...) is so inept it turnsEdward D. Wood Jr intoStanley Kubrick. The acting, photography and lighting are wretched in the extreme, with talking heads gazing uneasily past the camera, uttering inane lines of dialogue while the plot lurches from the sublime to the painfully ridiculous, using visual references toThe Haunting in search of any vestige of credibility."[5]
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