The Haunted House of Horror

United Kingdom

1969

92 Min

Color

English

Currently 1.8/5 Stars.
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PROD Tony Tenser, Louis M. Heyward

CAST Frankie Avalon, Jill Haworth, Dennis Price, Mark Wynter, George Sewell, Gina Warwick, Richard O'Sullivan, Carol Dilworth

A group of sixties teenagers bored with the party they’re at drive out to a deserted old mansion, but their laughter turns to fear when one of them is killed in a frenzied knife attack. Another of them persuades the rest that they should solve the murder themselves rather than go to the police, not surprisingly opening the way to further carnage. —IMDb

Director

Michael Armstrong

Michael Armstrong (born 24 July 1944, Bolton, Lancashire, England) is a British writer and director

Armstrong trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and was writing and directing films at the age of 22 with the award-winning short, The Image starring David Bowie and Michael Byrne. The following year, he wrote and directed his first feature film, The Haunted House of Horror, starring Frankie Avalon, Jill Haworth, Mark Wynter, Richard O’Sullivan and Dennis Price, following it with the notorious Mark of the Devil, starring Herbert Lom and Udo Kier which smashed all box office records in Europe and America on its first release in 1970 and has grown to be one of the biggest cult films ever. It is still banned in the UK.

Since then, Armstrong’s film credits have included House of the Long Shadows starring Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and John Carradine, the highly successful comedies, Eskimo Nell starring Armstrong himself, Roy Kinnear, Christopher Timothy… read more

Michael Armstrong (born 24 July 1944, Bolton, Lancashire, England) is a British writer and director

Armstrong trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and was writing and directing films at the age of 22 with the award-winning short, The Image starring David Bowie and Michael Byrne. The following year, he wrote and directed his first feature film, The Haunted House of Horror, starring Frankie Avalon, Jill Haworth, Mark Wynter, Richard O’Sullivan and Dennis Price, following it with the notorious Mark of the Devil, starring Herbert Lom and Udo Kier which smashed all box office records in Europe and America on its first release in 1970 and has grown to be one of the biggest cult films ever. It is still banned in the UK.

Since then, Armstrong’s film credits have included House of the Long Shadows starring Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and John Carradine, the highly successful comedies, Eskimo Nell starring Armstrong himself, Roy Kinnear, Christopher Timothy, Diane Langton, Anna Quayle, Sheila Bernette and a host of comedy stars, and The Adventures Of… series which broke box office records in the UK. In all he has written and/or directed seventeen feature films internationally, for which he has won numerous awards.

His television credits include The Professionals, Shoestring and Return of the Saint. His theatre work includes, in Los Angeles, writing and directing a new musical, My Jewish Vampire, and in the UK, a specially conceived work for actors and orchestra for a Royal charity performance at the Royal Albert Hall, The Enchanted Orchestra featuring the London Symphony Orchestra and an all-star cast of fifteen actors including the legendary Max Wall and headed by Sir John Mills. He has also produced and directed plays both on tour and in London’s West End, taught and directed, periodically, at various drama schools, created a unique “structured Acting Course”, published the magazine “The Grapevine” and worked as a film critic for Films & Filming.

Armstrong is currently working on plans for an exciting new theatrical venture. London Repertory Company will be London’s first full-time professional traditional repertory company to operate commercially in the heart of the West End. —Wikipedia

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