The House Where Evil Dwells is a 1982

1982 in film

-Events:* March 26 = I Ought to Be in Pictures, starring Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret and Dinah Manoff is released. Manoff would not appear in another movie until 1987's Backfire.* June = PG-rated film E.T...

 American

United States

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/Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese horror film that stars Edward Albert

Edward Albert

Edward Albert was an American film and television actor. He was also known as Edward Laurence Albert, Laurence Edward Albert and occasionally Eddie Albert, Jr.-Early life:Albert was born Edward Laurence Heimberger in Los Angeles, California, to actor Eddie...

, Susan George

Susan George (actress)

Susan Melody George is an English film and television actress, and film producer.-Career:She trained at the Stage School, Corona Theatre School and has acted since the age of four, appearing on both television and film...

 and Doug McClure

Doug McClure

Douglas Osborne "Doug" McClure was an American actor whose career in film and television extended from the 1950s to the 1990s...

 about an American family that moves into a reputed haunted house in the hills of Japan. It was directed by Kevin Connor

Kevin Connor (director)

Kevin Connor is an English film and television director currently based in Hollywood.Connor was born in London on the 24 of September 1937 and grew up during the 2nd World War...

 and produced by Martin B. Cohen. It was based on a novel by James Hardiman

James Hardiman

James Hardiman , also known as Séamus Ó hArgadáin, was a librarian at Queen's College, Galway. The university library now bears his name...

 and turned into a screenplay by Robert Suhosky.

Plot

In 1840, a samurai comes home to find his wife in bed with another man, so he kills them both and then himself. Flash-forward to the present day, and an American family of three moves into this since-abandoned house and starts to experience incidents of haunting and possession.

Cast

• Edward Albert
  Edward Albert
  Edward Albert was an American film and television actor. He was also known as Edward Laurence Albert, Laurence Edward Albert and occasionally Eddie Albert, Jr.-Early life:Albert was born Edward Laurence Heimberger in Los Angeles, California, to actor Eddie...
  
   as Ted Fletcher
• Susan George
  Susan George (actress)
  Susan Melody George is an English film and television actress, and film producer.-Career:She trained at the Stage School, Corona Theatre School and has acted since the age of four, appearing on both television and film...
  
   as Laura Fletcher
• Doug McClure
  Doug McClure
  Douglas Osborne "Doug" McClure was an American actor whose career in film and television extended from the 1950s to the 1990s...
  
   as Alex Curtis
• Amy Barrett as Amy Fletcher
• Mako Hattori as Otami
• Tsuiyuki Sasaki as Shigero (as Toshiyuki Sasaki)
• Toshiya Maruyama as Masanori
• Tsuyako Olajima as Majyo Witch (as Tsuyako Okajima)
• Henry Mitowa as Zen Monk
• Mayumi Umeda as Noriko, the babysitter
• Shuren Sakurai as Noh Mask Maker
• Hiroko Takano as Wakako
• Shôji Ohara as Assistant Mask Maker (as Shoji Ohara)
• Jirô Shirai as Tadashi (as Jiro Shirai)
• Kazuo Yoshida as Editor
• Kunihiko Shinjo as Assistant Editor
• Gentaro Mori as Yoshio
• Tomoko Shimizu as Aiko
• Misao Arai as Hayashi
• Chiyoko Hardiman as Mama-San
• Hideo Shimedo as Policeman (as Hideo Shimado)

Critical reception

Vincent Canby

Vincent Canby

Vincent Canby was an American film critic who became the chief film critic for The New York Times in 1969 and reviewed more than 1000 films during his tenure there.-Life and career:...

 of The New York Times

The New York Times

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wrote, "The House Where Evil Dwells... should satisfy all but the most insatiable

Insatiable

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 appetites for haunted-house

Haunted house

A haunted house is a house or other building often perceived as being inhabited by disembodied spirits of the deceased who may have been former residents or were familiar with the property...

 movies..."

TV Guide

TV Guide

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said, "The film has more nudity than chills, but it does have some quirky humor, especially in the exorcism

Exorcism

Exorcism is the religious practice of evicting demons or other spiritual entities from a person or place which they are believed to have possessed...

 scene."

J.C. Maçek III of WorldsGreatestCritic.com wrote, "Sadly, this film does end up coming off as another Amityville

The Amityville Horror (1979 film)

The Amityville Horror is a 1979 American horror film based on the bestselling 1977 novel of the same name by Jay Anson. It is the first movie in the Amityville Horror franchise....

 "homage

Homage

Homage is a show or demonstration of respect or dedication to someone or something, sometimes by simple declaration but often by some more oblique reference, artistic or poetic....

" either because of director Kevin Connor's

Kevin Connor (director)

Kevin Connor is an English film and television director currently based in Hollywood.Connor was born in London on the 24 of September 1937 and grew up during the 2nd World War...

 best efforts, or in spite of them. In truth, though, it's not all that bad. The acting doesn't particularly suck

Suck

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, and while the ideas don't seem to spring fully formed to the screen, those ideas are at least good, and relatively unique."