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Terror House
"Fresh meat, maybe a little hard. Luxurious location, good service, but
a little creepy”. This could be the Tripadvisor review of the Red
Wolf Inn where this story is set. But since we are talking about cinema
and not catering, the review changes like this: "nice idea, but could
have been done better ". We find ourselves in a horror film, which
speaks of cannibalism, of sinister families and anticipates in some
things the well-known and celebrated "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", with
which it shares the bad ideas of the translators of the title. So many
strange titles that makes it look more like "Arsenic and old lace" than
a dark horror that probably takes its cue from famous news. The
director is Bud Townsend that two years later gives us the precious
"Alice in Wonderland" and here he directs a high quality cast with
Arthur Space, an expert character, as well as Dr.Weaver of "Lassie", a
young Linda Gillen who later became a known face of cinema, TV and
theatre, Mary Jackson, protagonist of "The Waltons" and especially
Margaret Avery, an Oscar nominated as "Best Actress in a Supporting
Role" for "The Color Purple" in 1985. The beginning of "Terror House"
is really interesting. Regina (Linda Gillen) wins a holiday at the Red
Wolf Inn, a luxurious villa in the countryside. The place is run by an
elderly and very kind couple (Space and Jackson) and their strange
nephew. A great place, where the food is good and the guests try in
every way to make you eat, because in reality they hide a terrible
secret. When one of the young women present in the place disappears,
Regina understands that something is wrong and is that the nice old
couple loves to make them fat and kill their guests. A beautiful story
that, however, remains too restrained without exploding either in
tension or in horror. Too bad, it could really be a succulent film.
