The House That Screamed
1969 · Movie · 98 min. · Spain
Lilli Palmer owns and runs a school for wayward girls in France. Her absolute discipline has fostered a social order among the girls with rampant sex, lesbianism and torture the norm. Palmer also has an adolescent son (Moulder Brown) she tries to keep isolated from the young women lest he be tainted by sexual relations; She explains that he must wait for a girl "just like his mother". Meanwhile, girls are "running away" one by one, with their corpses and any evidence of their outcome not to be found.
Direction Narciso Ibáñez Serrador
Cast Lilli Palmer · Cristina Galbó · John Moulder-Brown · Cándida Losada · Maribel Martín · Pauline Challoner · Mary Maude · Paloma Pages · Teresa Hurtado · Blanca Sendino
Soundtrack Waldo de los Ríos
Screenplay Narciso Ibáñez Serrador · Juan Tébar
Cinematography Manuel Berenguer
Original title La residencia
Also known as The Finishing School
6.7
3K votes (FilmAffinity)
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