No, not a house overrun by infinite waves of flesh-eating zombies. Lord Brattling (Mark Burns) brings his fiancee (Shirley Anne Field) home to meet his mother (Margaret Inglis) who seems decidedly unenthusiastic about his choice of a wife, but what the poor girl doesn't know is that her wouldn't-be mother-in-law is just trying to save the young innocent from a house full of family skeletons, a House, if you will, of the Living Dead. It's set in South Africa, unusual and interesting terrain for a horror movie,and there's local color and voodoo. Plus a mad scientist who experiments, conveniently, on baboons, and others. Quality of acting far above the average horror, particularly Ms. Inglis. Plot rests on the stock Good Sibling/Bad Sibling device, which becomes so strained, I could no longer make the effort on its behalf, but one must, if they expect to be satisfied with the consequent ending.
Review of House of the Living Dead
