Pluskylang Great Film overall

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

mark.waltz Starting off with the Joan Fontaine like opening narration from "Rebecca", this little thriller is more mysterious than horrific. There's no real haunted house as the alternate title suggests, only a gloomy old Florida mansion that looks like it could be haunted, yet filled with as much mystery as the young Fontaine found in Manderlay. Delicate flower Cathy O'Donnell has been having issues with nightmares, dreaming about this gloomy mansion she claims she has never been to in her life. Her new husband (Gerald Mohr) is a mysterious sort, rather like Maxim De Winter, and perhaps keeping some secrets that make it appear as if he is "Gaslighting" her. They leave on their honeymoon and when O'Donnell sees the mansion she has been dreaming of when they arrive at their destination, she is instantly horrified. Mohr tells creepy groundskeeper (John Qualen) that they've rented the house, and soon it becomes obvious that he knows something more than he's telling, especially when a distant relative of his (William Ching) shows up and begins to plant ideas in O'Donnell's head that Mohr might be out to kill off the entire family to escape a curse, including her.With its two different titles and the advertising reflecting otherwise, this film might disappoint those looking for another "House on Haunted Hill" or 'The Haunting", but if you go in knowing that this is quite different, you might find yourself intrigued by the various thrills that do pop up in this often slow moving saga. Certainly, the house does look creepy, like a vacation getaway for Katharine Hepburn's "Suddenly Last Summer" character, with its ivy covered frame and the unkempt grounds overgrown with dying palm trees and other vegetation that provides plenty of atmosphere. O'Donnell's character is perhaps a bit too fragile to be believable or for some audiences to take seriously, and Mohr's moody character has various moments where he seems both alternately sane and loco. Qualen gives some depth to his groundskeeper, and is perhaps the most interesting character in the film. Ching is obviously influenced greatly by the George Sanders character in "Rebecca". which makes me wonder how this would have been had there been a Mrs. Danvers like housekeeper who knew all but revealed little.

kynolan97 SOO SPOOKY!!! "Terror in the Haunted House" is a really great movie! that i highly recommend! It has great acting, good special effects, and is scary(at times) but also has a funny twist to it. At times there were flashing funny cartoonfaces that would pop outduring some of the scary, suspenseful scenes, but they were out of placeand didn't really go with the plot of the story. Besides that, Cathy O'Donnell was excellent in the film! I think that this movie and "The Best Years of Our Lives" were her twobest films. If you want a thrill but also want to laugh, then I recommend this movie!

johnc2141 Terror in the haunted house resembles a William Castle horror film it has gimmicks,subliminal messages during the film.they flash images of skulls and cartoon monsters and even the word scream in blood red colors,but this movie is pretty good without the subliminal messages.its creepy and pretty entertaining,it stars Gerald Mohr who a few years later starred in the great b movie the angry red planet.and Cathy O'Donnell(related to Rosie?)and William Ching.a new bride is having visions of a haunted house,well nightmares and is later on a trip with her new husband to America from Switzerland.to an old plantation mansion that turns out to be the house from her nightmares, its kind of like the screaming skull only much better.i seen this years ago on VHS from rhino video when they redid all the subliminal messages.and if you run it in slow motion you can clearly see these goofy and cartoonish subliminal images.as a fan of b movies and old horror movies i enjoyed terror in the haunted house,even though it is not as great as the infamous house on haunted hill.but alas it is better then the screaming skull and yes the really inept hillbillies in the haunted house.i recommend terror in the haunted house.7 out of 10.

classicsoncall The video box proclaims "The First Picture in Psycho-Rama! The Fourth Dimension! Using Subliminal Communication! For added emphasis, the movie was "Banned by the U.S. Government!" Having seen it this evening, I'm ready to ban it from my own video collection after one day in my possession.The movie does have a pretty good set up though, and with some more work could have been a neat psychological thriller. After two years in a Swiss sanitarium, Sheila Justin (Cathy O'Donnell) has begun having nightmares about an old house that she's never seen before. Her husband Philip (Gerald Mohr) may have a cure; let's bring her to that very same house. Obviously, he knows something that his wife and the viewer doesn't, and his suspicious activity while there lead us to believe that something ominous will occur of his own doing. Though unoccupied for seventeen years, the home is tended by a caretaker named Jonah (John Qualen), and before long the home's owner shows up to discourage the guests from staying any longer.The subliminal messages that the film touts come at you fairly early, and if you pause the action and proceed a frame at a time, you'll see some cartoony images that state "Get Ready to Scream" and "Scream Bloody Murder". The messages work for Sheila, she's the only one affected by events in the home enough to exercise her lungs.It turns out that all of the participants in the old home's reunion have a relationship from the past, but I won't bother you with those details. If you're up for a late night fright fest though, here's a secret - the house is not haunted, and the story takes it's time revealing what the legend of the "Mad Tierneys" is all about.My copy of the film is the Rhino Video version, with the "Psychorama" treatment restored by a character named Johnny Legend, if that's to be believed. My viewing of the film probably took almost twice as long as the stated run time of ninety minutes, as I couldn't help myself from investigating the subliminal text as they occurred. But like the lead character in "The Christmas Story" who was left demoralized when he decoded his Ovaltine message, I had to kick myself in the pants when a subliminal cobra head appeared to advise me to "Rent Rhino Videos Every Day".