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The Ghosts of Hanley House
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Wikipedia article
'The Ghosts of Hanley House' is a 1968 American horror film written and directed by Louise Sherrill.
Plot
A young man accepts a bet to stay in a house, with some friends, where several murders occurred. But the house may be haunted, or the original murderer may still be around.
Cast
* Elsie Baker as Lucy
* Barbara Chase as Sheila
* Roberta Reeves as Gabby
Release
Home media
The film was released for the first time on DVD by Alpha Video on March 23, 2004.Critical response
'The Ghosts of Hanley House' was not reviewed by mainstream critics. Reviews that exist of the film have been mostly negative.
On his website 'Fantastic 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. Wes R. from 'Oh, the Horror!' called the film "extremely bland", also writing, "A film like this would have been understandable in the 50s, but by 1968, youd think that the filmmakers couldve at least tried a little bit harder to make a halfway interesting and watchable film." Steve Langton from 'The Spinning Image' gave the film 1/10 stars, writing, "Louise Sherrills regional horror film is so inept it turns Edward D. Wood Jr into Stanley 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 to 'The Haunting' in search of any vestige of credibility."
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