The Shuttered Room
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Genre Horror Duration Language English | 6.2/10 Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 27 June 1967 (1967-06-27) Cast Similar movies The Dunwich Horror (1970), Re-Animator (1985), Bleeders (1997), Die - Monster - Die! (1965), The Haunted Palace (1963) |
The shuttered room 1967
The Shuttered Room is a 1967 British horror film directed by David Greene and starring Gig Young and Carol Lynley as a couple who move into a house with dark secrets. It is based on a short story of the same name by August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft. The film has also been re-released under the title Blood Island.
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Although set in the US, the film was shot in Kent and Norfolk, England. The film features a large, half-brick, half-timber watermill, which is destroyed by fire in the closing scenes. The building used was Hardingham Mill on the River Yare in Norfolk.

Plot

Susannah Kelton, a newly married twentysomething who was raised in foster care in the big city, learns that her real parents have died and left their property to her. She and her husband, Mike, travel to the island of Dunwich off the coast of Massachusetts to inspect the property. They find a local culture that is clannish, backward, and ignorant. The few friends they make amongst the locals, including Susannah's Aunt Agatha, warn them that the family mill is cursed and urge the Keltons to leave immediately and never look back.

Refusing to bow to superstition, the couple consider rehabilitating the abandoned mill. They become the target of a gang of local thugs led by Susannah's lecherous cousin, Ethan. Their reign of terror is ended by something still living in the shuttered attic room of the mill, something that caused Susannah nightmares as a child.
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Production

The script was originally written by Alex Jacobs and Nathaniel Tanchuck. Filming began in April 1966.



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