Bis das Blut gefriert (1963)
59KBis das Blut gefriert: Directed by Robert Wise. With Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn. Hill House has stood for about 90 years and appears haunted: its inhabitants have always met strange, tragic ends. Now Dr. John Markway has assembled a team of people who he thinks will prove whether or not the house is haunted.
“Perhaps this is a movie that appeals only to certain people. Perhaps it has to be viewed at a particular moment in life. Perhaps itu0026#39;s just too dated for many to get into it. In any case, itu0026#39;s disappointing to see how many simply find it a waste of time.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI saw this under special circumstances. I was about 12 years old and my parents were out for the evening when it came on TV. I didnu0026#39;t know anything about it but considered myself quite the connoisseur of horror and sci-fi shown at the small local theater. I figured it would be along the line of Universal monsters and Roger Corman fare, nothing particularly notable.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt scared the absolute daylights out of me. Sitting alone the in house at night with the creepy sounds and images emanating from that little Bu0026amp;W screen got to me badly. Even after my parents were home and I went to bed I found myself looking for faces in the plaster walls of my room and imagining every creak as an approaching but invisible malevolent force.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI still get it out every couple of years on a dark dreary night, and though the lines of dialog sound more stilted to my now elderly mind I can still remember the effect it had on me so many decades ago.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI had an even more intense reaction from Hitchcocku0026#39;s u0026quot;The Birdsu0026quot; and Iu0026#39;ve noticed the commentary about that film to be similar to this. Perhaps you just had to be there.”
