Supelice Dreadfully Boring

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

view_and_review It's always interesting to watch older movies. This movie probably predates the majority of IMDb users including myself.Hell House, as it's dubbed, is a mansion haunted by the spirit of Emeric Belasco. Four people have gone there to draw out this spirit and solve the mystery of Hell House.The movie is more of an erotic horror. The spirit seems absorbed with cohabitating with the medium, Florence Tanner (Pamela Franklin), and causing Mrs. Barrett to philander with the male medium, Ben Fisher (Roddy McDowall). When Belasco's spirit isn't behind some sexually charged event he is trying to hurt people. Some real S&M stuff. And this from a man that was born in 1879 England; you'd think he'd be more enlightened and sophisticated.For a 1973 movie it provided a few scares--mostly in the jump scare form. The movie was more mysterious than scary. I see how it paved the way for a very similar movie titled "The Entity" which came out in the early 80's. The Legend of Hell House wasn't that legendary after all.

Johan Louwet What I liked mostly about this movie were its characters. You have the skeptic scientist Dr. Barrett who thinks he can prove anything with his "modern" machinery and theories. Of course he was going to get in a conflict with Ms Tanner wonderfully played by Pamela Franklin. I'm glad that little Flora from the Innocents actually grew up in a beautiful young woman and a good actress (well I already liked her cute and creepiness in the Innocents too). I was really impressed with her here. I liked how the tension builds and how that evil spirit in the house handily uses the conflicts between the 4 people and strikes a few times. The scientist thinks the medium is manipulating things (the dining scene, the ectoplasm, her constant talking about the poor son of Belaski). Ms Tanner thinks it's Belaski's son who cries for help, the prudish Ms Barrett is suddenly captivated by erotic thoughts. And than there is Fischer who tries to stay invisible but his presence and input proves in fact to be vital. A few really strong spectacular scenes without overdoing it. Especially those which involved Ms Tanner captured me (the cat scenes, the visits from Belaski's spirit leaving her bed and room, when the invisible spirit makes "love" to her, the cross scene and of course the discovery of Belaski's son rotten body). No wonder she was my favorite character. That she died was sad. Nevertheless a great movie which I really would give a solid 8/10!

lathe-of-heaven I'll keep this REAL simple because many others here have already described the excellent qualities of this classic Horror film. I will mention again that the Blu-ray Restoration that they did is truly stunning. It looks beautiful.Atmospheric as Hell!Creepy-@ss Scary...Absolutely LOVELY cinematography.Effective, taut direction.Excellent acting.Very beautiful lighting and set design.And, the soundtrack REALLY helps rack up the tension.If you like Supernatural Retro-Horror films, especially effective ones about Haunted Houses, and ones that are taken DEAD seriously... then you should really enjoy this excellent, haunting, and chilling classic.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE postulates. The characters in this movie toss around a lot of big words such as "sadism" and "necrophilia," but it's a classic case of "bait and switch." When push comes to shove, an audience propelled onto the edge of their seats by an effectively creepy music score and multiple "fog machines" is left with no bigger thrill than the sticky gross-out of the mummified used gum of yesteryear lurking at their fingertips on the bottom of their theater pews. The nudity here is always implied, never real. Violent deaths may occur by the dozen in HELL HOUSE, but they're all off-camera, usually described in exposition of long-ago events. When the curtain is finally pulled away to reveal HELL HOUSE's Wizrd of Ahhhs, we get a hapless stiff instead of what should be an eerily spry 94-year-old (after all, that's the age someone born in 1879 such as "Emerick Belasco" would actually be in 1973, when this flick is set). Talk about a let-down. Had Emerick simply wriggled his little finger, it would have out-weighed all the pseudo-scientific Mumbo Jumbo thrown at us in this DULL HOUSE.