The House That Screamed

La residencia

Spain

1969

99 Min

Color

Spanish, English

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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SCR Narciso Ibáñez Serrado, Juan Tébar

DP Manuel Berenguer, Godofredo Pacheco

CAST Lilli Palmer, Cristina Galbó, John Moulder-Brown, Maribel Martín, Mary Maude, Cándida Losada, Pauline Challoner, Tomás Blanco, Víctor Israel, Teresa Hurtado, María José Valero, Conchita Paredes, Ana María Pol, Mari Carmen Duque, Paloma Pagés, Sofía Casares, Maria Gustafsson

ED Mercedes Alonso, Reginald Mills

SOUND Luis Castro, Enrique Molinerom, Mike Tucker

Synopsis

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. —IMDb

Director

Narciso Ibáñez Serrador

Spanish actor and director Narciso Ibáñez Serrador is an important figure in Spanish and Argentine television; he has also made a handful of feature films. The son of Spanish-born Argentine theater actors Narciso Ibáñez Menad and Peseta Serrador, Ibáñez Serrador was born in Uruguay but raised in Argentina. He moved to Spain in 1947 and became a theater director by the early ‘50s. Ibáñez Serrador moved back to Argentina in 1958 and established himself as one of the country’s most distinguished television writers and directors. In 1963, he returned to Spain to continue his extraordinary television career with series like El Último Reloj/The Last Clock and specials such as El Asfalto/Asphalt (1966). In 1972, Ibáñez Serrador started one of Spain’s most popular television game shows, Uno Dos, Tres/One, Two, Three. Ibáñez Serrador made his feature-film directorial debut in 1969 with La Residencia/The House That Screamed. —allmovie guide

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Knut Morte

21Dec11

SMILE SMILE SMILE, Please, if you become a guardian, parent, educator, nurse, politician, whatever, please care for people without oppression and abuse, that's the message of this film for me. (and know your children and watch to see if your children have any mental problems)

Knut Morte

21Dec11

In a 19th-century French boarding school for troubled girls, Headmistress Señora Fourneau (Lili Palmer) forbids her teenage son Luis (John Moulder Brown) near any of the girls, finding none of them good enough for him. A series of murders begin taking place after the latest arrival of the a new student, Teresa (Cristina Galbó) and Fourneau's assistant Irene (Mary Maude). Fourneau investigates these deaths eventually leading her to the attic where she finds Luis has been dismembering the women in order to create his own "ideal woman". Luis' frustrated desires forced psychotic urges to the surface, compelling him to stalk the hapless girls in the hope of acquiring body parts. Luis then locks up his mother with his new creation.