{"id":14614,"date":"2021-11-11T20:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T01:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14614"},"modified":"2021-11-11T18:07:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T23:07:06","slug":"the-legend-of-hell-house-1973-john-hough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14614","title":{"rendered":"The Legend of Hell House (1973, John Hough)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good house and one good character: Roddy McDowall as a jaded, buttoned-up medium refusing to let the spirits in.  He and some others are sent by a rich guy to live in the definitely haunted house to prove the existence of an afterlife.  Arrogant scientist Clive Revill (<em>CHUD II: Bud the Chud<\/em>) almost sinks the movie, but fortunately the house wins, and Roddy outlives Clive.  Roddy&#8217;s fellow medium is Pamela Franklin (<em>Food of the Gods<\/em>, <em>The Nanny<\/em>), the first to die, and Clive&#8217;s long-suffering wife Gayle Hunnicutt (<em>Eye of the Cat<\/em>) is allowed to live.  Roddy defeats the ghost by taunting it relentlessly, which seems a bad strategy, but don&#8217;t underestimate the British weakness against taunting.  Written by <em>Twilight Zone<\/em> vet Richard Matheson.  Hough has made his share of cult faves, and also a <em>Howling<\/em> sequel, which I&#8217;ve probably seen but the sequels were all so shitty I&#8217;ve never tried to straighten out which movie was which.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good house and one good character: Roddy McDowall as a jaded, buttoned-up medium refusing to let the spirits in. He and some others are sent by a rich guy to live in the definitely haunted house to prove the existence of an afterlife. Arrogant scientist Clive Revill (CHUD II: Bud the Chud) almost sinks the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,102,110,310,2946],"class_list":["post-14614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-britain","tag-ghosts","tag-haunted-house","tag-john-hough"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14638,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14614\/revisions\/14638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}