The House Where Evil Dwells1982
“An ancient curse has turned their lives into a nightmare of lust and revenge.”
Directed by Kevin Connor
🏆 4 nominations
The premise
At the prompting of his diplomat friend, Alex, writer Ted Fletcher takes his wife, Laura, and daughter, Amy, on an extended working holiday. Alex finds a house for them in Kyoto, Japan, and the Fletchers move in, laughing off rumors that the place is haunted. But the ghost of 19th-century samurai Shigero turns out to be very real, and is intent on making the family re-enact an ancient murder-suicide.
Horror Vault's take
When an American writer relocates his family to a centuries-old house in Kyoto, they discover that the whispered warnings of locals carry far more weight than they imagined. The restless spirits of feudal Japan have unfinished business — and the Fletcher family fits their purposes disturbingly well. As strange compulsions begin to overtake the household, the line between free will and spectral influence grows dangerously thin. This early-80s American-Japanese co-production leans into its exotic setting to deliver an atmosphere of creeping dread rooted in samurai-era tragedy.
Content: Violence, Sexual Content, Themes Of Suicide, Possession
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