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The House Where Evil Dwells(1982)
Status: Released
Date: 1982-05-14
41%
41 Votes
Time: 1h 28m
An ancient curse has turned their lives into a nightmare of lust and revenge.
Overview:
At the prompting of his diplomat friend, Alex, writer Ted Fletcher takes his wife, Laura, and daughter, Amy, on an extended working holiday. Alex finds a house for them in Kyoto, Japan, and the Fletchers move in, laughing off rumors that the place is haunted. But the ghost of 19th-century samurai Shigero turns out to be very real, and is intent on making the family re-enact an ancient murder-suicide.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America,
Japan
ProductionCompanies: 
Cohen
Commercial Credit Holdings
Movie: The House Where Evil Dwells
Top 10 Billed Cast
Edward Albert
Ted Fletcher
Susan George
Laura Fletcher
Doug McClure
Alex Curtis
服部真湖
Otami
笹木俊志
Shugoro (as Toshiyuki Sasaki)
岡島艶子
Majyo Witch
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