The read
Audiences rate it 28 points higher than critics do. Scores higher than 76% of the 577 1980s horror movies in this catalog. It runs a compact 1h 28m.
Synopsis
New Yorker Liza Merril inherits an old hotel in Louisiana and invests her savings to reopen the place, unaware that the hotel houses the body of a dead painter murdered decades earlier, and that the location is about to become a gateway to Hell.
Ratings
IMDb6.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes75%
Metacritic38/100
Audiences rate it 28 points higher than critics do.
691 audience votes
Key crew
- Lucio FulciDirector
- Giorgio MariuzzoScreenplay
- Dardano SacchettiScreenplay
- Lucio FulciScreenplay
- Fabio FrizziOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Catriona MacCollLiza Merril
- David WarbeckJohn McCabe
- Cinzia MonrealeEmily
- Antoine Saint-JohnSchweick
- Veronica LazărMartha
- Larry RayLarry
- Al CliverDr. Harris
- Michele MirabellaMartin Avery
- Giampaolo SaccarolaArthur
- Maria Pia MarsalaJill
- Laura De MarchiMary-Ann
- Calogero AzzarettoZombie at Hospital (uncredited)
