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The House in Nightmare Park (1973)

Director: Peter Sykes

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From Time Out Film Guide

Howerd plays a Victorian ham actor invited to an eerie stately home, supposedly to entertain. In reality it's a question of inheritance (he's the long-lost heir, and this is The Cat and the Canary all over again). Sykes directs in his best high romantic style (the opening is brilliant) and Howerd restrains himself sufficiently; but though some gags work, towards half time the strain begins to tell and it all falls apart.

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Cast & crew

Director: Peter Sykes

Producer: Clive Exton, Terry Nation

Cast: Frankie Howerd, Ray Milland, Hugh Burden, Kenneth Griffith, John Bennett, Rosalie Crutchley, Ruth Dunning full cast

Genre(s): Horror

Duration: 95 mins


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