House of Terror (film)

Infobox Film
name = La Casa del Terror


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director = Gilberto Martínez Solares
producer = Fernando de Fuentes hijo
writer = Fernando de Fuentes
Juan García
Gilberto Martínez Solares
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starring = Germán Valdés
Yolanda Varela
Lon Chaney Jr.
Yerye Beirute
music = Luis Demetrio
cinematography = Raúl Martínez Solares
editing = Carlos Savage
distributor = Alfa Films (Belgium)
released = March 24 1960
runtime = 60 mins
country = flagicon|Mexico Mexico
language = Spanish
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amg_id = 1:16541
imdb_id = 0052679

"La Casa del Terror" ("House of Terror") is a 1960 Mexican monster horror/comedy film.

Plot summary

The film is set in a wax museum, where the night watchman is secretly being drained of small amounts of blood by his mad scientist boss each time he falls asleep on the job. The mad scientist experiments on dead people, hiding the bodies by covering them with wax and putting them on display.The mad scientist obtains a mummy and tries his experiments on it, resulting in a revived mummy that is actually a werewolf. After transforming, the werewolf spends most of the movie plaguing the night watchman.

Additional plot summary

Casimiro, night watchman at a wax museum of horrors, is even more sleepy than his usual laziness makes him - because his boss, the Professor, is secretly draining blood from him while he dozes to use in experiments in raising the dead. These haven't worked so far, and the bodies have been covered in wax and placed on display in the museum to cover his crimes. His big chance seems to come, however, when he learns that the mummified body of a modern man has been found in an Egyptian sarcophagus. The professor and his two henchmen steal the body and take it back to his lab - where the experiment flops again. Or it seems to. While the villains are out of the lab, and Casimiro sleeps on duty, a bolt of lightning gives the electrical boost which the Professor's machinery has needed, and the body comes back to life. Then the clouds part, the full moon shines through, and the resurrected one becomes a werewolf. When Casimiro sees it wandering the museum, no one will believe him, not even Paquita, his girlfriend. But the professor finds his subject alive and soon witnesses a transformation. Eventually, the creature escapes him and makes off into the night, terrorizing the city and ending up at Paquita's apartment.

Film Information

Director: Gilberto Martínez Solares

Writers: Juan García (adaptation)Gilberto Martínez Solares (story)more Release Date: 24 March 1960 (Mexico)

Trivia

Footage from "La Casa del Terror" was combined with footage from "La Momia Azteca" in order to create "Face of the Screaming Werewolf".

ee also

1960 in film

External links

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* [http://www.hauntedhacienda.com/la_casa_del_terror_1959.html La Casa del Terror] at [http://www.hauntedhacienda.com/ Haunted Hacienda]