What was that movie I saw?

[Sleepy]

Hello. I saw a horror movie on TV in the seventies, when I was a child. It was about a group of people trapped in a haunted house. They are killed off in bizarre ways, one by one. At the end of the movie, the surivors discover a hidden door in the cellar floor that grants them access to a foggy room. There they encounter an old man seated in a throne, who is responsible for the horrors of the house. I think he was wearing a white suit. That's all I remember. I would love to know what movie this is. Please help me if you can.

[Ferox13]

Hmm..the man in the hidden room bit sounds very like The Legend of Hell House (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070294/).

[urgeok2]

sounds like :

The Evil


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077524/

[crabapple]

The Evil had Victor Buono as The Devil, right, in a white suit? That was kind of fun.

And Hell House had Michael Gough as the dead owner of the house, who was nonetheless providing a focusing point for the strange destructive energy flowing through it...forget if he was wearing a white suit, I thought it was gray or black, but I haven't seen it in a while.

[Sleepy]

Thank you, urgeok2! You know your horror films. THE EVIL is not available at my public library, so I hope it pops up on TV soon. Because I saw it when I was a child, it made an indelible impression on me. It both terrified and fascinated my raw, developing brain. I wish I could get as lost in a film now. Maybe ingesting LSD would do it.


Here's a review with images from the movie:

http://www.stomptokyo.com/badmoviereport/reviews/E/the_evil.html