Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

bsmith5552 "House of the Long Shadows" is famous for the casting of horror legends Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and John Carradine in the same picture. Director Pete Walker handles these veteran performers admirably.American author Kenneth Magee (Desi Arnaz Jr.) bets his publisher Sam Allyson (Richard Todd) $20,000 that he can write a novel in 24 hours while holed up in a creepy old mansion in Wales. Driving to the mansion Magee meets newlyweds Andrew and Diane Caulder (Richard Hunter, Louise English) when he stops for directions.Arriving at the mansion and expecting it to be unoccupied, he first meets the "caretakers" (John Carradine, Sheila Keith) and then the young girl he had seen when he met with Allyson (Julie Peasgood). She warns him of imminent danger should he remain in the house.Soon other mysterious persons arrive. First is Sebastian Grisbane (Peter Cushing) and later Lionel Grisbane (Vincent Price). All gather in the dining room and we learn that the caretakers are actually Lord Grisbane (Carradine) and his daughter/care giver Victoria (Keith).We learn that 40 years earlier, the Grisbanes had locked their younger brother away for the murder of a young woman and now they all have returned in order to settle the matter. Into the fray comes Corrigan (Christopher Lee) who claims to be the potential buyer of the mansion. To further complicate matters, the Caulders, whom Magee had met on the way, arrive having lost their way.Then things start to happen. The tires of the cars are all slashed. There is no escape. Then they go to the imprisoned brother's room but he has escaped. Grisly murders ensue as Magee and the young girl Mary Norton (Peasgood) run through the mansion to try and escape the murderer. Then Corrigan reveals his secret and.............................The veteran actors now getting up in years still manage to give excellent performances. Price with his excellent diction starts us off with a creepy "I have returned" upon his entrance. Cushing as the slightly tipsy Sebastiasn, gives us what little humor there is in the film. Lee as always dominates the screen with his "I've got a secret" performance. And John Carradine also contributes as the old Lord of the manor.Of the others, Sheila Keith is good as the sister and Julie Theasgood makes a likable if not deceptive love interest. Richard Hunter has a gruesome death scene. The best that can be said about Arnaz' performance is that as an actor he made a fair singer. And it was good to see Richard Todd once again.You should be prepared for not one but two surprise endings which explains all of the goings on in the story.

. . This movie has managed to make all of the greatest horror icons to appear in the same movie: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and Vincent Price. John Carradine is also starring and disappoints nobody. The movie feature excellent performances from the actors and the story is smart, funny and sometimes scary. The atmosphere is unrivaled and in the "House" genre, this is the best one out there. For everyone who loves horror movies, or just great performances from veteran actors, this is a must see. It is one of my favorite films of all time.I recommend this classic for everyone enthusiastic about good films.

TheLittleSongbird Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and John Carradine in one movie is like a dream come true and a recipe for a truly great time. House of the Long Shadows is not a great movie, but it is an interesting one and better than I was led to believe. It does have flaws of course, the ending is unsatisfying and feels like more than one ending rolled into a single one, the middle drags and Desi Arnaz Jnr gives an awful lead performance, very wooden and overly-serious. However, the production values complete with a suitably Gothic mansion are in keeping with the spooky atmosphere and in the genre House of the Long Shadows is an example of. The music has a very haunting sound to it, I loved the tongue-in-cheek humour and thrills in the script(Vincent Price having the best lines and he really relishes them), and the story has some nice-if occasionally silly- twists and turns and is mostly swiftly paced. The opening sequence is great. The murder sequences are not exactly subtle, but are suspenseful and evoke some chills. The four stars Price, Cushing, Lee and Carradine- easily the highlights of the film- are brilliant, distinctive and commanding with a very one-of-a-kind chemistry. In conclusion, fun and interesting if far from perfect. 7/10 Bethany Cox

gavin6942 An author named Kenneth McGee (Desi Arnaz, Jr.) whose career is on the decline wagers his publisher $20,000 that he can write a novel comparable to "Wuthering Heights" in 24 hours. To do so, he is holed up at a manor in Wales.Can you beat this cast? Vincent Price as Lionel Grisbane, John Carradine as Lord Grisbane, Peter Cushing as Sebastian Rand and Christopher Lee as Corrigan. This is the final film in which both Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing appear.The lead actor, Desi Arnaz, is pretty awful. He delivers lines that seem like they should be humorous with a straight face, which makes no sense -- is this humor delivered poorly, or serious lines botched before they even reach the man's tongue? I am not sure which, but he talks in such a tone and pace that I cannot believe any real person would talk in such a way.The copy I watched was of a very poor quality, or at best of "modest" quality. It was full screen, seems to be a VHS transfer, and had Swedish subtitles ingrained into it. That is not how I prefer to enjoy a film.The story is bizarre and sloppy, in some ways reminiscent of William Castle's "Old Dark House". Only not as entertaining. Mike Mayo says it is a variation of the Edgar Wallace story, the "tightest" of those he knows of. I find nothing tight about this film, and am unclear how much is Edgar Wallace and how much is writer Michael Armstrong. Armstrong freely admits to adapting the tale from the novel "Seven Keys to Baldpate" by Earl Derr Biggers and the dramatization by George M. Cohan.This all comes from director Pete Walker, whomever that is. This was his final film. The gore only comes in during the final twenty minutes, and it is not much. Would I recommend this movie? Maybe if it was cleaned up, just to see the cast. The film itself is nothing special.