'Death at Love House' (1976) E.W. Swackhammer.
Seeking inspiration for a biography, writers (Robert Wagner) and his beautiful wife (Kate Jackson) temporarily move into dead Hollywood icon Lorna Love's opulent mansion, only to discover that the glamorous screen goddess was, in life, a real witch! Engagingly directed by the magnificently monikered E.W. Swackhammer, this gripping, eerie, greatly atmospheric 70s TV thriller has a truly fabulous cast. A splendidly snug fit for their roles, Robert Wagner, Kate Jackson, Sylvia Sydney and Marianna Hill ably dramatising writer, Jim Barnett's marvellously macabre teleplay. This captivating ABC movie of the week classic additionally features colourful cameos by Hollywood veterans John Carradine, Joan Blondell, and Dorothy Lamour. Darkly fulminating passions, sinister Black magic, and murderous jealousy abounds evilly in this satisfyingly bite-sized example of glitzy Gothic Melodrama.
“Do yourself a favour, get out of Love House, there's nothing but death here!”
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