Not a Horror Film

 

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CHAMBER OF HORRORS (aka THE DOOR WITH 7 LOCKS)-1940-Miss June Lansdowne (Lilli Palmer) receives a key with a mysterious note telling her to go to a nursing home to meet Mr. Silva. She goes and meets him. He appears to be in ill health and talks like he's being held prisoner. He wants to tell her about the door with seven locks and who besides herself possesses the keys to them. But before he can, he's shot dead. She tells a nurse who plays ignorant, and the body disappears. She runs away and gets help from a just resigned police officer (Romilly Lunge). They, along with her annoying friend Glenda (Gina Malo) try solving the mystery of the door of which she has one of the keys to. The trio and lawyer Havelock (David Horne) go the estate of Dr. Minette (Leslie Banks), a guy with a pet monkey and a collection of torture devices. The door with 7 locks is in a tomb on his place. He's actually in league with some others to get the seventh key. 

Old style mystery melodrama directed by Norman Lee, advertised as a horror movie which it isn't. Star Leslie Banks had starred in THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME (1932) and was the lead in the first version of THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1934).

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Girls In Peril

THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED-1969-A boarding school for girls is run by the strict principal Mme. Forneau (Lilli Palmer). Of course she’s some power crazed disciplinarian who has a sadistic underling whip a girl who defied her. She also has a son Luis (John Moulder-Brown) who lives there and spies on the girls. Mom doesn't want him around any of the students (“These girls are poison”). She may have an unhealthy fondness for him. Luis and one of students Isabel (Maribel Martin) seem to be in love and secretly meet and he worries his mom will find out. Unfortunately a fake note from Luis leads to her being stabbed to death. A new girl Teresa (Cristina Galbo) is caught in the middle. Much time is wasted on a shower scene (very brief nudity) with Luis getting stuck in some kind of drain pipe while spying. Other girls are killed and in the end Luis is building his own girlfriend in the image of his mother. 

Tedious story line and non-action doom this production from Spain by Narciso Ibanez Serrador. 

The next year Moulder-Brown co-starred in the UK stalker film DEEP END. https://moviemeltdown.blogspot.com/2011/04/deep-end.html 

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