La Residencia (1969) aka The House That Screamed (1969) - Lilli Palmer, Cristina Galbó, John Moulder Brown ~ Download Movie….

La Residencia (1969) aka The House That Screamed (1969) - Lilli Palmer, Cristina Galbó, John Moulder Brown

Nation:Spain
Published:1969
Actor:Lilli Palmer, Cristina Galbó, John Moulder Brown, Mary Maude, Cándida Losada, Tomás Blanco, Maribel Martín, Pauline Challoner, Teresa Hurtado, Conchita Paredes, Víctor Israel, María José Valero, Ana María Pol, Blanca Sendino, Paloma Pagés

Lilli Palmer owns and runs a school for wayward girls in France. Her absolute discipline has fostered a social order among the girls with rampant sex, lesbianism and torture the norm. Palmer also has an adolescent son (Moulder Brown) she tries to keep isolated from the young women lest he be tainted by sexual relations; She explains that he must wait for a girl "just like his mother". Meanwhile, girls are "running away" (being murdered) one by one, with their corpses and any evidence of their outcome not to be found.

Director Narciso Ibáñez Serrador is most famous for his under-seen cult gem, 'Who Can Kill a Child?', but this Gothic horror treat is definitely well worth tracking down! Perhaps not as original or thought provoking as Serrador's later film, The House That Screamed presents it's situation and characters well, and the atmosphere that the director bathes every scene in is a major highlight. The film works like a cross between a film about imprisoned women (along the same lines as Pete Walker's masterpiece 'House of Whipcord') and an Italian Giallo; although it's clear that Serrador wanted to keep the focus on the girls' and their plight, as the murder theme exists almost like an afterthought. The film focuses on a French boarding school for wayward girls. The owner and mistress of this establishment is the unforgiving Mme Fourneau, who sees fit to enforce a strict discipline upon her pupils, which has lead to widespread deviance among the girls. The mistress is never more strict with anyone than her own son, however, who has fallen in love with one of the girls, leading his mother to tell him that he should find a girl "just like her"...

It's amazing that this film was made in 1969, as the production values are amazing owing to the director's care and attention to detail, and it's also clear that this film was a major inspiration for a barrage of later Gothic horror films, including Dario Argento's most famous film 'Suspiria'. Its own influence comes from Gothic horror the likes of which the great Mario Bava is famous for producing, and the dark and gloomy look of the school bodes excellently with the themes of the plot. Lilli Palmer is the pick of the cast, and delivers an excellent strong lead performance in the lead role. She receives decent feedback from the likes of Cristina Galbó and John Moulder-Brown who, along with the rest of the support players, help to ensure that this is above a lot of Euro-sleaze being released around the same time. The murders aren't the main point of the film, and while they're not overly gory or brutal; they work well in the context of the movie, and succeed in being extremely stylish. The film ends on a definite high, as although the identity of the murderer isn't a shock; the reason for the killings completely caught me out and the dark and shocking finale is a treat. Overall, this masterpiece comes HIGHLY recommended to fans of cult horror!

Language:Spanish
Time:01:39:00
Window:624x240
Format:AVI
Size:673 MB
Fps:29
Subtitles:English
Password:No

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