House of Terrors

{{Short description|1965 Japanese horror film}}

{{About|the 1965 Japanese film|other uses|House of Terror (disambiguation)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2023}}

{{Infobox film

| name = House of Terrors

| image = File:House of Terrors (The Ghost of the Hunchback, 1965) poster.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| native_name = {{Infobox Japanese|kanji=怪談せむし男|revhep=Kaidan semushi otoko}}

| director = Hajime Sato

| producer = Hiroshi Okawa

| writer =

| screenplay = Hajime Takaiwa

| story =

| starring = {{Plainlist|

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| music =

| cinematography =

| editing =

| studio = Toei Company

| distributor =

| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1965}}

| runtime = 81 minutes

| country = Japan

| language = Japanese

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{{nihongo|House of Terrors|怪談せむし男|Kaidan semushi otoko|{{lit|Ghost Story of a Hunchbacked Man}}|lead=yes}}, also known as The Ghost of the Hunchback,{{cite book|last=Lentz III|first=Harris M.|year=1989|title=Science Fiction, Horror & Fantasy Film and Television Credits, Supplement: Through 1987|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tGlZAAAAMAAJ|publisher=McFarland & Company|page=421|isbn=0-89950-364-0}} is a 1965 Japanese horror film directed by Hajime Sato and produced by Toei Company.{{cite book|last=Galbraith IV|first=Stuart|author-link=Stuart Galbraith IV|year=1996|title=The Japanese Filmography: A Complete Reference to 209 Filmmakers and the Over 1250 Films Released in the United States, 1900 through 1994|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tbAaAQAAIAAJ|publisher=McFarland & Company|page=220|isbn=978-0786400324}}

Cast

  • Kō Nishimura{{cite web|url=https://bunshun.jp/articles/-/52165|title=不気味な洋館に集う人間の欲望。怪奇作の名手が見せる白黒の恐怖!――春日太一の木曜邦画劇場|last=Kasuga|first=Taichi|author-link=:ja:春日 太一|date=24 February 2022|website=Shūkan Bunshun|language=ja|access-date=29 June 2023}}
  • Yuko Kusunoki as Yoshie
  • {{ill|Yoko Hayama|ja|葉山葉子}}
  • Masumi Harukawa
  • {{ill|Shinjiro Ebara|ja|江原真二郎}}

Release

{{Missing information|section|the film's Japanese release|date=June 2023}}

House of Terrors was dubbed in Italian and released in Italy as Il pozzo di Satana, featuring anglicized credits.{{cite book|last=Davies|first=Clive|date=2015|title=Spinegrinder: The Movies Most Critics Won't Write About|publisher=Headpress|page=414|isbn=978-1909394278}}

Home media

In 2022, a 2K restoration of the film was released on Blu-ray in Region A by Mondo Macabro.{{cite web|url=https://mondomacabro.bigcartel.com/product/house-of-terrors-limited-red-case-edition|title=House of Terrors - Limited Red Case Edition|publisher=Mondo Macabro|access-date=29 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221012042155/https://mondomacabro.bigcartel.com/product/house-of-terrors-limited-red-case-edition|archive-date=12 October 2022|url-status=dead}}

References

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Further reading

  • {{cite book|last=Reyes|first=Xavier Aldana|date=2020|title=Gothic Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OvrDDwAAQBAJ|series=Routledge Film Guidebooks|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1138227569|quote=Japanese films like Kaidan semushi otoko (House of Terrors, 1965) and Noroi no yakata: Chi o suu me (Lake of Dracula, 1971), show an obvious debt to Western Gothic films, [...]}}