Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

mark.waltz A few modern actresses come close, but nobody has come along that remotely looks or sounds like Barbara Stanwyck. That gorgeous silver hair, that smooth skin that only required minimal work and that voice of laryngitis which, as Richard Chamberlain called it, was worth a million dollars. After 40 years a star, she wasn't resting on her laurels, and had no problem working in T.V. movies of the week which were considered the new equivalent of the B secondary "bottom of the bill" feature. Add on Richard Egan, a wonderfully rugged but tender leading man, ingénue Kitty Winn, and a beautiful old house filled with evil, and you had the recipe for what made the T.V. movie of the week so much fun.In my opinion, Stanwyck is by far the best aged of the 1930's to still be working in the early '70s. Certainly of the other three (Crawford, Davis, Hepburn), she looked the most natural and even sexy. Here, she inherits a house from a distant relative, and finds nothing but terror there. It is even worse for niece Kitty Winn who seems to become possessed by it. Neighbor Richard Egan has a strange reaction to a portrait that Winn buys, and later begins to romance Stanwyck, at one point kissing her rather violently. The 70's had a series of horror movies made for TV, all seemingly rip-offs of "Rosemary's Baby". Some are better than others, but this one has many chilling moments that rank it above the few I've seen. As produced by the not yet famous Aaron Spelling, this manages to have the gloss of his future nighttime soaps, one of which would feature the legendary Stanwyck. This is featured on the DVD collection of five made for TV films, and from what I have seen the only one of interest to me. Stanwyck would appear in one other T.V. horror movie, "A Taste of Evil", but that has not been released as of yet to DVD.

ebeckstr-1 Within the context of 1970s made for TV horror (a category unto itself among horror fans), The House That Would Not Die has never attained the status of "classic," as have Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark (a classic among horror movies as a whole, whether TV or theatrical) and The Night Stalker; nor the cult following of Gargoyles (1972); nor even the minimal honor of a DVD release, as bestowed upon of one of the lesser-known 70s TV supernatural thrillers, Horror At 30,000 Feet (a comparably good, overlooked TB horror in its own right). Nonetheless, House That Would Not Die is a decent little TV ghost story which happened to air before any of the aforementioned. It does not pretend to have a complex plot, and the story is anything but original. That's not the point, though. The movies goes for a comfortable, familiar kind of supernatural suspense and achieves it. The actors are solid and earnest, all of them taking their tasks seriously, and the production design includes liberal use of ghost- induced wind effects, all of which elevates the simple story. But because it is not as compelling as the other movies noted above, nor the 1981 made for TV classic, The Dark Night Of The Scarecrow, which perhaps marked the end of the cycle of greats TV horrors of the decade prior, House That Would Not Die usually goes unmentioned even among fans of that period. You can find House That Would Not Die streaming online, or as of 2015, included in DVD multi-paks of otherwise sub-par horror movies sold on Amazon.

jimmerp123 I just bought this movie since not seeing it for many years, and I must say that it still holds my attention and is an excellent old-fashioned ghost story. I love Barbara Stanwyck in anything she does so I might be prejudice, but she is supported by an excellent cast and the story holds up even today. In this age of graphic violence and blood in movies, it is so refreshing to revisit one of my favorite horror films. The film itself is very atmospheric with genuine thrills and chills. My favorite horror film is the original "The Haunting," but this ranks in my top ten. I did read the book by Barbara Michaels(Elizabeth Peters) and enjoyed it thoroughly - and I must say that I wish the film had stuck more to the book's storyline - but all in all I was pleasantly surprised that I still like "The House That Would Not Die."

derekjager I remember seeing this on TV when it was first broadcast back in the `70s. I remember a "big, bold" haunted house movie with a great mystery and climax. Sadly, when I finally got a copy, I found this to be a rather "small" film. The story/plot isn't very engaging and people say and act in very "odd" ways--and I don't mean appropriate to the genre! All of the sudden, someone will act weird, then normal, and no one seems to pay much attention to their behavior! And once the mystery is solved...the movie just ends. So that "climax" I remember doesn't seem to have existed. Anyway, I say pass on this.