by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Richard Matheson adapted the screenplay of The Legend of Hell House from his own novel. In the tradition of Shirley Jackson's Haunting of Hill House, four people with alleged extrasensory powers are called upon to spend a weekend in a supposedly haunted house, to either prove or disprove the presence of ghosts. Roddy McDowall has been in the house before, and refuses to treat the possibility of paranormal activity lightly; scientist Clive Revill believes that he can trace the happenings to rational explanations involving electric current; Pamela Franklin is convinced that, if spirits exists, she will be able to communicate with them; and Gayle Hunnicutt plays Revill's young wife, ripe for "possession."
characteristics
themes
keywords
haunted-house
research
investigation
house
ghost
paranormal
occult
medium [psychic]
mansion
scientist
supernatural-forces
mystery [unexplained phenomenon]
millionaire
sadist
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