House of the Living Dead

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House of the Living Dead
Directed by	Ray Austin
Written by	Marc Marais
Produced by	Matt Drucker Phillip N. Krasne Basil Rabin
Starring	Mark Burns Shirley Anne Field David Oxley Margaret Inglis
Cinematography	Lionel Friedberg (lighting cameraman)
Edited by	Diana Friedberg (as Diana Ginsberg)
Music by	Peter J. Elliott (as Peter Elliot)
Production company	Associated Film Productions
Release date	1974
Running time	86 minutes
Countries	Great Britain South Africa
Language	English

House of the Living Dead (Skaduwees Oor Brugplaas, or Shadows over Bridge Farm), also known as Doctor Maniac, is a 1974 science-fiction horror film directed by Ray Austin. The film, an international co-production between Great Britain and South Africa, takes place on a plantation in South Africa and deals heavily with the occult.

Plot

The storyline follows a white family running a plantation farm on the Cape Colony in South Africa. The family consists of a mother (Margaret Inglis) and her two sons, Michael and Breck (both played by Mark Burns). Michael runs the house while Breck spends his time alone in his room, deformed and insane, conducting experiments to try to prove the soul is an organic object able to live outside the human body. Michael's fiancée Mary (Shirley Anne Field) arrives to marry him, much to the mother's dismay as she wants the family to end so the long history of madness can stop. Meanwhile, strange things begin to happen at the plantation, such as voodoo, which is assumed to be the work of the local black neighbors, and murder.

Awards

Mark Burns was recognized as Best Actor at the 1974 Sitges Film Festival.

Content

The film contains very little

. It is 86 minutes long (85 in the UK cut version) and is rated Australia: R (and UK PG). It goes under various names – Doctor Maniac in the UK and US, Curse of the Dead also in the US, and Kill, Baby, Kill when released to video.

Cast

• Mark Burns ... Sir Michael Brattling / Dr. Breckinridge Brattling
• Shirley Anne Field ... Mary Anne Carew
• David Oxley ... Dr. Collinson
• Margaret Inglis ... Lady Brattling
• Dia Sydow ... Lina
• Lynn Maree ... Annie
• Bill Flynn ... Simeon
• William Baird Clark ... Capt. Turner
• Ronald France ... Col. Pringle
• Don Furnival ... Brand
• Pieter Geldenhuys ... Shoemaker
• Ben Dekker ... Jan
• Limpie Basson ... Hugo de Groot
• Amina Gool ... Aia Kat

See also

• Night of the Living Dead

External links

• House of The Living Dead at RottenTomatoes.com
• House of the Living Dead at
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• House of The Living Dead at AllMovie.com