# House of Evil

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{{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](/source/Luis_Enrique_Vergara)<br>[Jack Hill](/source/Jack_Hill)<ref>Nollen, Scott Allen. Boris Karloff: A Gentleman's Life. Pg. 307. Midnight Marquee & BearManor Media.</ref>
| producer       = [Juan Ibáñez](/source/Juan_Ib%C3%A1%C3%B1ez)<br>Luis Enrique Vergara
| screenplay     = [Luis Enrique Vergara](/source/Luis_Enrique_Vergara)
| based_on       = 
| narrator       = 
| starring       = {{ubl|
* [Boris Karloff](/source/Boris_Karloff)
* [Julissa](/source/Julissa)
* [Andrés García](/source/Andr%C3%A9s_Garc%C3%ADa)
* [José Ángel Espinoza](/source/Jos%C3%A9_%C3%81ngel_Espinoza)
}}
| music          = Enrico C. Cabiati<br>[Alicia Urreta](/source/Alicia_Urreta)
| cinematography = Raúl Domínguez<br>[Austin McKinney](/source/Austin_McKinney)
| editing        = Ángel Camacho
| studio         = Azteca Films<br>Filmica Vergara S.A.
| distributor    = [Columbia Pictures](/source/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](/source/horror_film) directed by [Luis Enrique Vergara](/source/Luis_Enrique_Vergara) and [Jack Hill](/source/Jack_Hill), and starring [Boris Karloff](/source/Boris_Karloff), [Julissa](/source/Julissa), [Andrés García](/source/Andr%C3%A9s_Garc%C3%ADa) and [José Ángel Espinoza](/source/Jos%C3%A9_%C3%81ngel_Espinoza).

This was the first in a cycle of four films Karloff made in a package deal with Mexican producer [Luis Enrique Vergara](/source/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](/source/Isle_of_the_Snake_People)'', ''[The Incredible Invasion](/source/The_Incredible_Invasion)'', and ''[Fear Chamber](/source/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 &#124; Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related &#124; 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](/source/Boris_Karloff) as Matthias Morteval
*[Julissa](/source/Julissa) as Lucy Durant
*[Andrés García](/source/Andr%C3%A9s_Garc%C3%ADa) as Beasley
*[José Ángel Espinoza](/source/Jos%C3%A9_%C3%81ngel_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](/source/Killer_toys)

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|id=0063097|title=House of Evil}}
*{{Rotten Tomatoes|dance_of_death_1968}}

{{Jack Hill}}

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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