
Marcel De Lange is a struggling sculptor whose work and sanity are derided by the New York art critics. After waspishly officious critic F. Holmes Harmon ruins a sale for De Lange by dismissing his expressionistic cubist work as "tripe" and later gloating about it in his column, the distraught artist goes to the river to drown himself. There he discovers the half-drowned body of the notorious serial killer, the Creeper, and takes him back to his studio to recover. Feeling emp... (Full plot summary below)
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Marcel De Lange is a struggling sculptor whose work and sanity are derided by the New York art critics. After waspishly officious critic F. Holmes Harmon ruins a sale for De Lange by dismissing his expressionistic cubist work as "tripe" and later gloating about it in his column, the distraught artist goes to the river to drown himself. There he discovers the half-drowned body of the notorious serial killer, the Creeper, and takes him back to his studio to recover. Feeling empowered by the friendship of the acromegalic sociopath, De Lange tasks him with murdering the critics who have pilloried him in print. When successful commercial artist Steve Morrow is wrongly suspected of the crimes, his art critic girlfriend Joan Medford decides to follow her instinct about a mysterious bust De Lange has suspiciously covered in his studio, and she decides to snoop around.
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzAudiences loved this base crime drama, even if critics were a little queasy about so many corpses found with broken spines as the focal point of the entertainment. |
| User ReviewMike MA 'B' movie for guys who like 'B' movies, starring the one and only Rondo Hatton as the ridiculously-effective Creeper. This time out, Hatton is used by a persecuted starving artist to carry out killings on all the man's critics. The Creeper is well-known to police, however, and immediately suspect the infamous serial killer may not be "dead" after all (following his last movie appearance and supposed demise). Hatton, who suffered from real-life acromegaly, hides away in the artist's studios, killing at night and posing for a sculpture by day. A fun flick that shows how great and commanding Hatton could be as a heavy. Beware THE CREEPER! |
| User ReviewNeil OFor something near the tail end of Universal's 1940's horror output, HOUSE OF HORRORS is an entertaining enough vehicle with many good scenes and some particularly risuqe (for 1946) moments which prempts the wonderful Theatre of Blood (19730 for a film where an artist gets revenge on his critics in a drastic way. |
| User ReviewBob WComing at the tail end of Universal's horror cycle of the 1940's, HOUSE OF HORRORS does have an interesting central premise, but the potential is squandered by uninspired execution and lackluster production value. Rondo Hatton is certifiably menacing, though, and he even lends his character a few small moments of pathos; he's not reason enough to recommend the film, but he does keep it from being an outright bore. |