Wow!! I found this in a "special features" section of an Edgar Wallace
Mystery set - and it is pretty special!! Combining the scientific with
mysticism, it's the story of a haunted house and it's tenant history.
An eager young married couple feel they have found their dream house
but when they press the mysterious caretaker for an explanation as
to why the house is so cheap she tells them the history. Beginning with
the previous tenants, another bright eyed married couple Joan and
Henry Trevor (Natalie Newman was absolutely luminous - a combination
of Audrey Hepburn and Jean Simmons). The sitting room light begins
to have a life of it's own, switching on and off and then Joan sees a man
over by the windows. Henry is quite skeptical but takes a completely
British, unhysterical, systematic approach to things - by mending the
fuseboxes but all to no avail. They then both see the same man appear
on TV and after ringing the station and their neighbours and finding
the phenomena was exclusively shown to them, a TV repair man is
called!! Joan, as a last resort, brings in a "ghost buster" - a gentleman
with a number of electronic gadgets at his fingertips, he then calls in
a medium (Molly Urquhart who plays her completely straight) who
senses evilness and there is another flashback to the original tenants.
The Lemmings, a scientist (Peter Dyneley) and his bored wife (Jane
Hylton) who is having an affair!! So far there have been ghostly
caretakers, metaphysical happenings, now the science starts!! Lemming
knows about his wife's affair and he has rigged up the same sitting room
so that anything the couple touch means instant electrocution. The
scene fades to the present as they await death....
Jane Hylton was able to give her role so much depth that she grabbed your attention instantly - she was a graduate of the Rank Charm School but was more than just a pretty face. Unfortunately the film supposedly her breakout role was "It Started in Paradise" a romantic melodrama of the fashion world that just wasn't that good. The last scene in "House of Mystery" is a shocker, very scary!!
Very Recommended.
Jane Hylton was able to give her role so much depth that she grabbed your attention instantly - she was a graduate of the Rank Charm School but was more than just a pretty face. Unfortunately the film supposedly her breakout role was "It Started in Paradise" a romantic melodrama of the fashion world that just wasn't that good. The last scene in "House of Mystery" is a shocker, very scary!!
Very Recommended.