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The Legend Of Hell House..(1973).
Well I had every intention of watching the Blu Ray of Ghostbusters ( who you gonna call?Ray Parker Jnr must be rolling around on a bed of money since that got released...blimey I was still at school when that came out cripes), any who I got side tracked forgot what I was going to watch and ended up watching something very similar to Ghostbusters,but with added ectoplasm...I'll start by saying while I do love Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963),especially Robert Johnson's stiff upper lipped Dr Markway and Russ Tamblyns cool hip cat,I have always much preferred John Hough's The Legend of Hell House a lot more...I think this has a lot to do with Roddy McDowell's geeky looking Ben Fischer character, and his milk bottle glasses... and while Clive Refill is no Richard Johnson,he does have a bloody great machine that can suck the ghostly energy out of the Belasco House (so not that different to Ghostbusters after all)...And let's not forget Pamela Franklin as the highly strung cat hating spiritualist...Of course compared to today's unstoppable tide of ghost movie's its all fairly tame stuff,but its quirky and has that feeling of impending doom (we're doomed) and has a fairly unsettling conclusion as Belasco is finally revealed at the end,although it does remind me of the Wizard of Oz reveal...