Don't interrupt me while I'm soliloquizing.-Lionel Grisbane. But soon enough it turns out that it's not as empty as he believed and that he has actually walked into a family reunion which leads to a mystery. In fact, it was the sixth filmization – scripted by Michael Armstrong, whose own directorial career was curtailed following the notoriety of his MARK OF THE DEVIL (1970) – of "Seven Keys To Baldpate", a novel by Earl Derr Biggers (creator of Charlie Chan) that was adapted for the stage by George M. Cohan (yes, the songwriter played by James Cagney in YANKEE DOODLE DANDY [1942]! His publisher says that he knows the very place, a big country house which was has stood empty for 40 years. He just wants needs to hole up in an atmospheric old house. The whole plot was constantly turning and twisting which I believe is a good element in a thriller, such as finding out things or truths towards the end, the element of fear as each character is "killed" off. For the first hour or so, it's nothing but "Talk, talk, talk, talk" Nothing much happens at all. Contains my favorite Vincent Price line of all time: "Please, don't interrupt me whilst I am soliloquizing!". She was easy on the eyes, if nothing else. Aboard a British train, mysterious fortune teller Dr. Schreck uses tarot cards to read the futures of five fellow passengers. As if the filmmakers knew this too, they threw in a worse twist first, just to soften the blow. If you're a fan of any one of these four film legends, you're in for a treat. Peter Cushing looks somewhat gaunt, but delivers a fun performance. His smug character irritated me to no end. Upon his arrival, however, the writer discovers that the manor, thought empty, actually has several, rather odd, inhabitants. Far removed from his parents' famous roles, Arnaz plays Kenneth Magee, an American author who goes to an old Welsh estate to write a novel. Horror. I´ve seen it twice on video when it was released i Sweden in the mid-80. There, three gruesome stories are told to him; between each story some musicians play their songs. Cushing is also great though, hamming it up as a cowardly old lush, and…. Pete Walker's "House Of The Long Shadows" of 1983 may be an extremely silly and partly even ridiculous movie, all right, but it is still an absolute must-see for any serious lover of horror, and even for any serious film fan, as it features FOUR of the greatest Horror icons in the history of motion pictures, Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and John Carradine in one movie. For most of the movie, NOTHING HAPPENS - it takes almost the entire first hour for the numerous characters to be introduced. After all, it is the only movie that ever managed to assemble no less than four of the most legendary genre icons and even show them in the same scenes! Report this film. Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, and John Carradine are the big four, and their presence alone makes seeing this film a must. Then there suddenly are too many childish and overly implausible plot-twists going on in the last sequences, resulting in a totally unsatisfying climax. Plainly put, he is awful, and painful to watch as he delivers hackneyed dialogue with a smug manner. Few things. Sadly, it wasn't quite enough, but most of what preceded it was enjoyable enough. The choked on a great opportunity with an all star cast, despite most of them being in their twilight years. There's lots of fun here, with all the long time Kings of horror who were living at the time this was made. The young cast isn't in any way comparable obviously – however, both Desi Arnaz Jr. (from childhood sci-fi TV show AUTOMAN [1983]!) An evil spirit leaves the body of his human host, a criminal on death-row, and sneaks into the body of his next human host, a French magistrate. How earnest and genuinely fun they can be. All current and past They Shoot Zombies, Don't They? Well worth a read.…. Mobile site. An arrogant, American writer bets 20,000 dollars that he can write a classic novel like "Wuthering Heights" at a remote Welsh manor in 24 hours. Shut Up In The Library • Cloistered Bookworms in the Chicken-Coop of the Muses Cringing in the Dark: Book Abuse…, Tony the Terror️‍ 288 films 179 29 Edit, I love all horror movies but I especially love haunted house movies! It is worth seeing just for such a legendary cast! It's a classic mansion murder mystery that doesn't quite fit in with the 80s horror of the time it came out, but as a throwback to the classics it is so much fun.