House of Terrors explained

House of Terrors
Native Name:	Kanji: 怪談せむし男 Revhep: Kaidan semushi otoko
Director:	Hajime Sato
Producer:	Hiroshi Okawa
Screenplay:	Hajime Takaiwa
Studio:	Toei Company
Runtime:	81 minutes
Country:	Japan
Language:	Japanese

, also known as The Ghost of the Hunchback,^[1] is a 1965 Japanese horror film directed by Hajime Sato and produced by Toei Company.^[2]

Cast

• Kō Nishimura^[3]
• Yuko Kusunoki as Yoshie
  • Masumi Harukawa

Release

House of Terrors was dubbed in Italian and released in Italy as Il pozzo di Satana, featuring anglicized credits.^[4]

Home media

In 2022, a 2K restoration of the film was released on Blu-ray in Region A by Mondo Macabro.^[5]

Further reading

• Book: Reyes, Xavier Aldana. 2020. Gothic Cinema. Routledge Film Guidebooks. Routledge. 978-1138227569. Japanese films like Kaidan semushi otoko (House of Terrors, 1965) and Noroi no yakata: Chi o suu me (Lake of Dracula, 1971), show an obvious debt to Western Gothic films, [...].

Notes and References

1. Book: Lentz III, Harris M.. 1989. Science Fiction, Horror & Fantasy Film and Television Credits, Supplement: Through 1987. McFarland & Company. 421. 0-89950-364-0.
2. Book: Galbraith IV, Stuart. Stuart Galbraith IV. 1996. The Japanese Filmography: A Complete Reference to 209 Filmmakers and the Over 1250 Films Released in the United States, 1900 through 1994. McFarland & Company. 220. 978-0786400324.
3. Web site: 不気味な洋館に集う人間の欲望。怪奇作の名手が見せる白黒の恐怖！――春日太一の木曜邦画劇場. Kasuga. Taichi.

   ja:春日 太一

   . 24 February 2022. Shūkan Bunshun. ja. 29 June 2023.
4. Book: Davies, Clive. 2015. Spinegrinder: The Movies Most Critics Won't Write About. Headpress. 414. 978-1909394278.
5. Web site: House of Terrors - Limited Red Case Edition. Mondo Macabro. 29 June 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20221012042155/https://mondomacabro.bigcartel.com/product/house-of-terrors-limited-red-case-edition. 12 October 2022. dead.