The previous reviewer is correct. This is an intelligent, short movie that unfortunately sports the 'generic' title 'House of Mystery', which tells you absolutely nothing. This is the type of clever story that Rod Serling wished he could have aired on his 'Twilight Zone' hour format. I mention this because the running time is about an hour, and it struck me that this film had all of the hallmarks of a really good 'Twilight Zone', and frankly, the hour long stories in that series were 'padded'...the action was stalled often to fill up a fifty minute run time.
What you get is a screenplay that anticipates the hauntings in 'Poltergeist'. A strange woman introduced at the beginning of the film becomes an incidental 'narrator' and we are led up the garden path with a strange story of an electric engineer and his faithless wife.
I don't think this film rises to the magnificence of 'The Innocents', another very 'wise' ghost story. But frankly, the film is helped by its short length. Modern audiences won't appreciate the black and white film nor the movies 'talkiness' in parts. And the piece sports no dramatic 'special effects'. Tough. They'll just miss yet another fine film.
It was an added bonus to gaze on the young beauty of Nanette Newman at the beginning of her career. Fans of Serling's 'Twilight Zone' would much appreciate the story told here.
What you get is a screenplay that anticipates the hauntings in 'Poltergeist'. A strange woman introduced at the beginning of the film becomes an incidental 'narrator' and we are led up the garden path with a strange story of an electric engineer and his faithless wife.
I don't think this film rises to the magnificence of 'The Innocents', another very 'wise' ghost story. But frankly, the film is helped by its short length. Modern audiences won't appreciate the black and white film nor the movies 'talkiness' in parts. And the piece sports no dramatic 'special effects'. Tough. They'll just miss yet another fine film.
It was an added bonus to gaze on the young beauty of Nanette Newman at the beginning of her career. Fans of Serling's 'Twilight Zone' would much appreciate the story told here.