The Ghosts of Hanley House is a 1968 American horror film written and directed by Louise Sherrill.

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The Ghosts of Hanley House
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Louise Sherrill
Written by	Louise Sherrill (writer)
Produced by	Joseph Durkin Jr. (producer)
Starring	Elsie Baker Barbara Chase Wilkie de Martel Roberta Reeves Cliff Scott Leonard Shoemaker
Cinematography	Claude Fullerton
Edited by	Frances Durkin
Music by	David C. Parsons
Production company	Victoria Productions
Distributed by	Sinister Cinema (VHS)
Release date	1968 (1968)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Plot

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A young man accepts a bet to stay in a house, with some friends, where several murders occurred. But the house may be haunted, or the original murderer may still be around.

Cast

• Elsie Baker as Lucy
• Barbara Chase as Sheila
• Roberta Reeves as Gabby

Release

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Home media

The film was released for the first time on DVD by Alpha Video on March 23, 2004.[1][2]

Critical response

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The Ghosts of Hanley House was not reviewed by mainstream critics. Reviews that exist of the film have been mostly negative.

On his website Fantastic Movie Musings and Ramblings, Dave Sindelar criticized the film's acting and direction as abysmal, and also criticized the inconsistent sound and lighting, as well as the slow pacing.[3] Wes R. from Oh, the Horror! called the film "extremely bland", also writing, "A film like this would have been understandable in the 50s, but by 1968, you’d think that the filmmakers could’ve at least tried a little bit harder to make a halfway interesting and watchable film."[4] Steve Langton from The Spinning Image gave the film 1/10 stars, writing, "Louise Sherrill’s ‘regional’ horror film is so inept it turns Edward D. Wood Jr into Stanley Kubrick. The acting, photography and lighting are wretched in the extreme, with talking heads gazing uneasily past the camera, uttering inane lines of dialogue while the plot lurches from the sublime to the painfully ridiculous, using visual references to The Haunting in search of any vestige of credibility."[5]

References

External links

• The Ghosts of Hanley House at AllMovie
• The Ghosts of Hanley House at IMDb
• The Ghosts of Hanley House at Rotten Tomatoes

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