Saturday, April 30, 2011

House of the Seven Graves (1982, Pedro Stocki)


"House of the Seven Graves" - a.k.a "La casa de las siete tumbas" - is an obscure witchcraft/surrealist movie from Argentina that is so incoherent that it was borderline unwatchable.

What I gathered from the incomprehensible premise was: there are two women - childhood friends - whose past fears involving a haunted house leads them into a dark nightmare of paranoia, ghosts, and satanic rituals...

Had the film been moderately coherent, certain aspects may have proved redeeming - such as the gloomy atmosphere and bizarre imagery. However, "House of the Seven Graves" is such a disjointed snore-fest that any sense of enjoyment the film could've provided was clouded by the muddy look and nonsensical pacing. Nothing memorable here, only tedium and dullness... 1.5/10.

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