
The spitting image of her mother at that age, early twenty-something Cassie Duquesne never really knew her parents, Duke and Melinda Duquesne, having been sent to live with her aged maternal aunt in Wisconsin after Melinda abandoned the family when Cassie was an infant, Melinda's whereabouts since unknown. Twenty years ago, Duke and Melinda were at the top of the profession as a magician - The Great Duquesne - and his on-stage assistant respectively, they specializing in illu... (Full plot summary below)
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The spitting image of her mother at that age, early twenty-something Cassie Duquesne never really knew her parents, Duke and Melinda Duquesne, having been sent to live with her aged maternal aunt in Wisconsin after Melinda abandoned the family when Cassie was an infant, Melinda's whereabouts since unknown. Twenty years ago, Duke and Melinda were at the top of the profession as a magician - The Great Duquesne - and his on-stage assistant respectively, they specializing in illusions of the macabre and gore. Cassie reenters the realm of her father's life when she returns to Los Angeles to attend his funeral, which is as theatrical as his life in that he vowed in his life to emerge from the dead. Beyond this issue, Cassie learns that she is the sole beneficiary of her father's $300,000 estate, with which those arguably closest to him, Buzz Sheridan and Dolly Bast, his longtime manager and housekeeper respectively, are outwardly all right in Duke's want to bring Cassie back, she who they state he loved from afar despite Cassie's belief that he never loved her in not seeking her out in life. There is one caveat to Cassie getting that inheritance: she must live for seven consecutive nights - midnight to dawn - in her father's isolated mansion. Getting over her initial antagonism toward him, Cassie is able to navigate through most of the unexpected occurrences in the mansion with the help of a man she meets, Val Henderson, they determining those occurrences all part of the illusions of the Great Duquesne's professional life. Cassie is however unaware that Val is really a reporter out to get a story. As more and more terrifying and inexplicable occurrences happen at the house, the questions become if someone is trying to frighten Cassie into losing the inheritance, and/or if the Great Dusquesne really has risen from the dead. The answers may partially be found in the locked room in the house which Cassie cannot get into as the Great Dusquesne had the only key which was buried with him.
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| New York TimesHoward ThompsonA dull, silly, tedious clinker-and about as hair-raising, be warned, as a jack-o'-lantern. |
| 7M PicturesKevin CarrIt is an example of They don't make 'em like they used to, for both good and bad reasons. |
| User ReviewAllan CSurprisingly good little haunted house film. An heiress' magician father dies, Cesar Romero, and his will states that she must live in his spooky old house in order to inherit his fortune. That set-up seems like something out of a William Castle film, but this film is much better than that, with some genuinely spooky and suspenseful moments. The man responsible for directing that suspense was William Conrad, who I mainly knew of from "Jake and the Fat Man," and had no idea that he had a career as a director. Overall, this film falls somewhere in-between being campy William Castle spook house flick and a more artful psychological horror film like Robert Wise's "The Haunting." It's certainly not camp, but it's not quite art, though it's certainly entertaining. This film was the second to last score by Max Steiner and look fast for a young Richard "Jaws" Kiel as one of the funeral undertakers. |
| User ReviewMichael HNimi lupaa paljon mutta siihen se sitten jääkin. Taitaa 60-luvun elokuvan moraalisäädökset rajoittaa mitä valkokankaalla voi näyttää. Jokseenkin tönkkösuolattu maku jäi. |
| User ReviewJoe MNimi lupaa paljon mutta siihen se sitten jääkin. Taitaa 60-luvun elokuvan moraalisäädökset rajoittaa mitä valkokankaalla voi näyttää. Jokseenkin tönkkösuolattu maku jäi. |