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There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Whilst the loose morals and superficial machinations of youthful Sixties' 'swinging London' are engagingly handled, it seems an age before someone suggests going to 'the old house' to liven up a tepid evening's entertainment.American singing sensation Frankie Avalon is top-billed Chris, but is more of a supporting character to the excellent Richard O'Sullivan's far more interesting Peter and Mark Wynter's two-timing Gary - at least for the first two thirds of the 92 minute running time. The girls, who are either predatory or naïve, include Sylvia (Gina Warwick), Dorothy (Carol Dilworth) and Madge (Veronica Doran). George Sewell looks menacing as Kellett, and Dennis Price is wasted as the Inspector - a role originally envisaged for Boris Karloff (although given Karloff's health during the late 1960s, it is difficult to imagine him in the role).Director and writer Michael Armstrong fails to inject many scares into this, and typically of Tigon's output at the time, the results could better be described as a fairly routine mystery than a horror (despite the premise).Tigon films were prolific at the time. Their horror output occasionally resulted in some excellent productions, including 'Witchfinder General (1968)', 'Blood on Satan's Claw (1970)' and 'The Creeping Flesh (1973)'. Although the cast try their best, this is fairly standard runaround stuff which, instead of getting more intriguing as things roll on, actually becomes less engaging.

The plot seems to be a hot mess, which one Armstrong website attributes to studio meddling that cut out key scenes and characters and replaced them with others, thus destroying whatever unity there was. It looks like Armstrong intended to make a slasher-style "Blow-Up," in which Mod London was revealed to be a lot less fun than its image, but throwing in US surfer-singer Avalon and a bunch of middle-aged characters just distracts from that theme. It is, however, an awesome time-capsule of Swingin' Sixties clothes, hairstyles, makeup, and sets. The girls have miniskirts, false eyelashes, teased hair (or hair pieces) in the requisite flip-with-fringe; the guys have Technicolor ruffled shirts and Beatle bowl-cuts. They act out their angst in living rooms full of Pop Art. Enjoy it for the era's eye candy.

The Haunted House of Horror is one of those time capsule movies that was probably out of date before they finished editing it.I first saw it when I was 4 or 5 years old, It was one of the first colour horror movies that I remember seeing. Now 35 years later I can now give it a review. Lets put it this way, Haunted House of Horror is not a good film. But that doesn't mean its not interesting. The story concerns a bunch of young groovy British teenagers lead by the not so young, not so groovy, American Frankie Avalon. Anyway after a party they decide to go to the so called haunted house for kicks? After exploring the house for a bit, One of the teens is brutally murdered. Anyway, after lots of hysterical screaming, mainly by the females of the group. The group lead by Mr Avalon decide to hide there murdered friends body and leave the house.Why would they do this. Well.. Your guess is as good as mine. Anyway after a few plot contrivances and another bloody murder the teens decide to go back to the house, where guess what.. More Murders. As you can probably tell Haunted house of horror is a bit lame. The direction by Michael Armstrong is very amateurish. The plot and Script are also pretty dire even the music is really rubbish.The acting is mostly OK. When I say mostly I mean there is one terrible performance in there. ( Its very noticeable). So what, may you ask makes Haunted House of Horror so interesting. Well.. All these wrongs make this little film quite unique and strangely watch-able. It has child like quality that strangely reminded me of Scooby Doo. Like Fred in the cartoon, Frankie Avalon is the leader of the gang, Directing everyone what to do. I should also say that he is the only American in the movie. Actually he's quite good in it. I should also mention the Lovely Jill Haworth and her mini skirts. This is also another plus for the movie. At worst Haunted House of Horror can be seen as a bit of a Spring time for Hitler. "So bad its good. At best it can be seen as true British cult horror. I'd just call it harmless fun.

Haunted House of Horror, The (1969) * 1/2 (out of 4) Frankie Avalon and a group of friends are bored hanging out in an apartment so they go walk around a haunted house when one turns up butchered. Was a member of the group or perhaps a ghost? The only way to find out is by the group going back there at a later date to see once and for all. This British film from the Trigon Productions has a few interesting items but for the most part this thing is deadly dull from start to finish. I have an issue with many British horror films and that's because they talk and talk and talk and don't ever know when to shut up. That curse follows this film as we get plenty of talk and most of it has nothing to do with the main plot point of the film. The subplot involves a young woman trying to break free from a married man, which seems to be more fitted for a soap opera so why on Earth throw it into a slasher movie? The performances are okay for this type of film with Avalon leading the way and I'm sure he was the first to cash his paycheck. The film is great to look out with the wonderful colors and set design but you still need a story to make all of that count. There are a couple very bloody murders, which I was surprised to see and I'll give the filmmakers credit for the ending, which doesn't go the way you might expect. Even with that said this is a very hard film to get through because of how dull it is.