The House That Screamed

Spain’s first major horror film production, The House that Screamed is a stylish gothic tale of tortured passions and bloody murder that bridges the bloody gap between Psycho and Suspiria.

Thérèse (Cristina Galbó) is the latest arrival at the boarding school for wayward girls run under the stern, authoritarian eye of Mme Fourneau (Lilli Palmer). As the newcomer becomes accustomed to the strict routines, the whip-hand hierarchies among the girls and their furtive extra-curricular methods of release from within the forbidding walls of institutional life, she learns that several of her fellow students have recently vanished mysteriously. Meanwhile, tensions grow within this isolated hothouse environment as Mme Fourneau’s callow but curious 15-year-old son Louis (John Moulder-Brown) ignores his mother’s strict orders not to get close to the “tainted” ladies under her ward.

Directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador (Who Can Kill a Child?), this landmark title in Spanish genre cinema has been restored to its director’s original full-length vision for the first time.

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:

• Brand new audio commentary by critic Anna Bogutskaya 

• This Boy’s Innocence, a previously unreleased interview with actor John Moulder-Brown 

• Archive interview with Mary Maude, from the 2012 edition of the Festival of Fantastic Films 

• All About My “Mama”, a brand new interview with Juan Tébar, author of the original story 

• The Legacy of Terror, a brand new interview with the director’s son, Alejandro Ibáñez 

• Screaming the House Down, a brand new interview with Spanish horror expert Dr Antonio Lázaro-Reboll, discussing the history of the film and its director 

• Alternative footage from the original Spanish theatrical version 

• Original trailers, TV and radio spots

• Image gallery 

• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Colin Murdoch