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| Maribel Martín in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED Year: 1969 Rating: **** |
It initially seems like a tremendous flaw in Spanish horror director Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's girls boarding school horror/slasher THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED that three of the girls looks so much alike...
Beginning with vulnerable and quiet new arrival Cristina Galbó; chaste and docile Cristina Galbó; a mischievously sexual Conchita Paredes; and bullying older girl Mary Maude, whose tyrannical character overrides evil spinster/headmistress Lilli Palmer, whose son has two secret innocent trysts with the first two girls, and is a bit too predictably creepy...
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| Mary Maude and Ana María Pol in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
That is, the ending of this very effective chiller (with the high-end production of a British horror combining Alfred Hitchcock's timing and French New Wave direction) is the only real flaw, albeit a minor one: while the girls were actually supposed to look alike all along...
Featuring two surprising twists involving two "Janet Leigh characters" that, like in PSYCHO, only seem like important enough characters to last beyond the halfway point... as the real surprise is formidable antagonist Mary Maude (so docile in CRUCIBLE OF TERROR) being the final girl... kind of!
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| Cristina Galbó in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Maribel Martín in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Maribel Martín in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Maribel Martín in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Maribel Martín in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Maribel Martín in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Maribel Martín in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Mary Maude in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Mary Maude in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Mary Maude in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Lilli Palmer and Mary Maude in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Mary Maude in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Mary Maude in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Mary Maude in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Lilli Palmer in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Lilli Palmer in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Maribel Martín in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Maribel Martín in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Conchita Paredes in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Pauline Challoner in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Ana María Pol in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| María Elena Arpón in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| María Elena Arpón in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Lilli Palmer and John Moulder-Brown in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Cristina Galbó in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Fionnula Flanagan-looking actress in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Mary Maude and Ana María Pol in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Pauline Challoner and Maribel Martín in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Cristina Galbó in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Cristina Galbó in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Mary Maude in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Mary Maude in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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| Pauline Challoner and Maribel Martín in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED |
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