{{short description|1972 film directed by Luis Enrique Vergara and Jack Hill}} {{Infobox film | name = House of Evil | image = House_of_Evil.jpg | caption = Mexican theatrical poster | director = Luis Enrique Vergara<br>Jack Hill<ref>Nollen, Scott Allen. Boris Karloff: A Gentleman's Life. Pg. 307. Midnight Marquee & BearManor Media.</ref> | producer = Juan Ibáñez<br>Luis Enrique Vergara | screenplay = Luis Enrique Vergara | based_on = | narrator = | starring = {{ubl| * Boris Karloff * Julissa * Andrés García * José Ángel Espinoza }} | music = Enrico C. Cabiati<br>Alicia Urreta | cinematography = Raúl Domínguez<br>Austin McKinney | editing = Ángel Camacho | studio = Azteca Films<br>Filmica Vergara S.A. | distributor = Columbia Pictures (US) | released = {{Film date|1972|||US|ref1=<ref>Nollen, Scott Allen. Boris Karloff: A Gentleman's Life. Pg. 307. Midnight Marquee & BearManor Media.</ref>}} | runtime = 89 minutes | country = Mexico | language = English | budget = | gross = }} '''''House of Evil''''' ({{langx|es|'''Serenata macabra'''|4=Macabre Serenade}}, also released as '''''Dance of Death''''') is a 1972 Mexican horror film directed by Luis Enrique Vergara and Jack Hill, and starring Boris Karloff, Julissa, Andrés García and José Ángel Espinoza.
This was the first in a cycle of four films Karloff made in a package deal with Mexican producer Luis Enrique Vergara.<ref name="karloff">Stephen Jacobs, ''Boris Karloff: More Than a Monster'', Tomahawk Press 2011 p 503-504</ref> The others are ''Isle of the Snake People'', ''The Incredible Invasion'', and ''Fear Chamber''. Karloff's scenes for all four films were directed by Hill in Los Angeles in the spring of 1968, while the rest of the films were completed in Mexico without either's involvement.<ref name="karloff" />
''House of Evil'' was released theatrically in 1972, three years after Karloff's death.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://allmovie.com/work/dance-of-death-12064|title = Dance of Death (1968) - Juan Ibanez, Juan Ibáñez | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie}}</ref><ref>Nollen, Scott Allen. Boris Karloff: A Gentleman's Life. Pg. 307. Midnight Marquee & BearManor Media.</ref>
==Plot== Morhenge Mansion, 1900. The dying Matthias Morteval invites his dysfunctional relatives to his home for a will reading. However, he dies, and soon the relatives are being murdered one by one by his robotic toys that are alive.
==Cast== {{castlist| *Boris Karloff as Matthias Morteval *Julissa as Lucy Durant *Andrés García as Beasley *José Ángel Espinoza as Dr. Emery Horvath *Beatriz Baz as Cordelia Rash *Quintín Bulnes as Ivar Morteval *Manuel Alvarado as Morgenstein Morteval *Arturo Fernández as Professor Frank }} ==See also== * Killer toys
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0063097|title=House of Evil}} *{{Rotten Tomatoes|dance_of_death_1968}}
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Category:1972 films Category:1972 horror films Category:Mexican horror films Category:English-language Mexican films Category:Films set in country houses Category:1972 English-language films Category:1972 Mexican films Category:English-language horror films
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