Top billed cast

1. 

   Catriona MacColl

   Liza Merril

2. 

   David Warbeck

   John McCabe

3. 

   Cinzia Monreale

   Emily

4. 

   Antoine Saint-John

   Schweick

5. 

   Veronica Lazăr

   Martha

6. 

   Larry Ray

   Larry

7. 

   Al Cliver

   Dr. Harris

8. 

   Michele Mirabella

   Martin Avery

9. 

   Giampaolo Saccarola

   Arthur

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak

Written by Wuchak on 2026-05-08

**_A New York woman inherits a cursed house outside of New Orleans_**

This is southern gothic horror and the second in Lucio Fulci’s unofficial ‘gateways to hell’ trilogy, which all center around a portal to the underworld and include actress Catriona MacColl in three different roles (credited as Katherine MacColl). The first film was “City of the Living Dead” from the year prior, and the third one is “The House by the Cemetery,” which came out later the same year. They’re all self-contained.

The gateway to hell in the basement element was ripped off from “The Amityvill...read the rest

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10. Grindhouse69%
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Status
Released

Original Language
Italian

Budget
$400,000.00

Revenue
$123,843.00

Keywords

• hotel
• experiment
• new orleans, louisiana
• hell
• gore
• surrealism
• morgue
• undead
• grindhouse
• zombie
• gothic horror
• gothic
• mutilation
• ghost
• blindness
• video nasty
• acid
• grim
• dire
• entrails