#24 - The House of Seven Corpses (1974)
(dir. Paul Harrison)
If you find an ancient book of the dead in a creepy old mansion, it's usually a good policy not to read from it out loud. When a film crew finds just such a book, they decide to include incantations from it in the horror movie they are making, and of course things go horribly wrong. The crew begins to die in mysterious ways, and the dead begin to walk the earth. And when I say "the dead", I mean one extremely slow and not at all scary zombie.
This isn't such a great movie. It has a nice gothic atmosphere to it, and John Carradine is pretty good in his minor role as the house's caretaker (he is one of those guys who bring a touch of class to everything they are in, like Vincent Price or Boris Karloff), but everything else about the film is fairly lackluster. The makeup on the lone zombie might be decent, but the lighting isn't very good so it is hard to tell. There is also a really stupid twist at the end that doesn't make very much sense.
Not much to recommend here. A mildly entertaining but forgettable movie.
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