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The House of Clocks

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The House of Clocks
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1hr 30min
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1989
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Shriek Show
Synopsis: The story of Italian horror maven Lucio Fulci's made-for-television gore-a-thon concerns a creepy dark house inhabited by a dotty old couple, Victor and Sarah, and their uptight maid, Maria, who is soon impaled (complete with close-ups of guts pouring from the wound) when she discovers the couple's nephew and his wife dead in the basement. Three young crooks decide to break in and rob the isolated villa, killing the handyman (Pier Luigi Conti) and the old couple before being trapped inside by vicious ... Full Synopsis
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This is one of two made-for-TV movies directed by horror legend Lucio Fulci in 1989 but never aired by Reteitalia. It was intended for a series called Le Case del Terrore (along with his La Dolce Casa degli Orrori) after a pair of similar films by Umberto Lenzi of Cannibal Ferox fame had done well for the network in 1986. Fulci's films were rejected because they were too extreme for television, as ... Full Review
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