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Mystery House is a 1938 American mystery crime film directed by Noel M. Smith and starring Dick Purcell and Ann Sheridan as nurse Sarah Keate, and is based on the 1930 novel The Mystery of Hunting's End by Mignon G. Eberhart.
Winchester (also known as Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built) is a 2018 supernatural horror film directed by Michael and Peter Spierig, and written by the Spierigs and Tom Vaughan. The film stars Helen Mirren as heiress Sarah Winchester , with Jason Clarke and Sarah Snook , and follows Winchester as she is haunted by spirits inside her San ...
Prior to being released, The House of Mystery was prepared under the working titles The Ape and Curse of Kali by the studios Monogram Pictures. [1] It was an adaptation of the play The Ape by Adam Hull Shirk. [1] Among the cast was Verna Hillie who was borrowed from Paramount by Monogram for the production. [1]
Crooked House is a 2017 mystery film directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, based on Agatha Christie’s 1949 novel of the same name. The film stars Max Irons, Terence Stamp, Glenn Close, Gillian Anderson, and Stefanie Martini. Principal photography began in September 2016, and the film aired in the UK on Channel 5 on 17 December 2017.
The film was released roughly 6 months after The Haunting in Connecticut to capitalize on its release (nearly a decade before Lionsgate's Winchester), although the story in this film revolves around the Winchester Mystery House and its supposed hauntings, while the former film was based on a supposed haunted house in Connecticut investigated by ...
In developing the film, Johnson cited several classic mystery thrillers and mystery comedies as influences, including The Last of Sheila, Murder on the Orient Express, Something's Afoot, Murder by Death, Death on the Nile, The Private Eyes, The Mirror Crack'd, Evil Under the Sun, Deathtrap, Clue, and Gosford Park. [7]
The cast is an ensemble of British and American actors playing send-ups of well-known fictional sleuths, including Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Charlie Chan, Nick and Nora Charles, and Sam Spade. It also features a rare acting performance by author Truman Capote. The film was presented at the Venice International Film Festival on September 5, 1976.
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense, aired in the United States as Fox Mystery Theater, is a British mystery anthology television series produced in Britain in 1984 by Hammer Film Productions. Though similar in format to the 1980 series Hammer House of Horror , the Mystery and Suspense series had feature-length episodes, usually running around ...