The House on Skull Mountain / The Mephisto Waltz
by Paul Wendkos, Ron Honthaner
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Actor: Janee Michelle, Jean Durand, Mike Evans, Victor French, Xernona ClaytonDirector: Paul Wendkos, Ron Honthaner
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
Producer: Albert Shepard
Producer: Arthur Fellows
Producer: Joe R. Hartsfield
Writer: Ben Maddow
Writer: Fred Mustard Stewart
Writer: Mildred Pares
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 193 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-11
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of The House on Skull Mountain / The Mephisto Waltz
Movie Review: See Mephisto, skip House on Skull Mountain
Summary: 2 Stars
A pair of long-limbed occult movies here, neither particularly memorable (thus a disc I've already sold). HOUSE is a blaxploitation voodoo yarn with a white hero (Victor French, of all people). Essentially an Old Dark House-style mystery with estranged relatives (three black, one white) brought together for the reading of their great-grandmother's will, but the maid and butler, who practise voodoo, have other plans for the money. Good concept, but the production is strictly TV movie level, hardly surprising considering the cast, almost all of whom were small screen thesps at best. French was a TV mainstay who would soon go on to LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE, while Mike Evans, the other most recognizable face in the cast, had a few telemovies to his name, but would shortly start an extended run as Lionel on the classic sitcoms ALL IN THE FAMILY and THE JEFFERSONS.
Much better, but still severely dated, is THE MEPHISTO WALTZ, one of the few theatrical features of TV vet Paul Wendkos, and it looks like a TV movie, too, only with more boobs, gore and swearing, as music journalist Alan Alda get possessed by the spirit of newly-departed concert pianist and satanist Curt Jurgens. Jackie Bissett is Alda's wife, who becomes hip to the ruse after Alda takes over the dead man's career and their daughter dies of an unexplained illness. Some creepy moments and an intriguingly dark twist, but the oh-so-typically Hollywood-liberal portrayal of the outwardly conservative tuxedo classes as society's truly debauched sin-seeking swingers was pretty worn out even by 1971, when this was made.
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