The House of the Dead (1978) on Netflix
Talmudge, an adulterous husband, is caught in a downpour and shelters with a mortician. The mortician embalms people who met unusual deaths, and shows him four caskets.
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Plot summary
Talmudge is wandering in a storm and cannot find the hotel where he is staying when a mortician invites him inside. The mortician says he gathers and embalms bodies of people whose deaths were interesting and one of a kind. He opens four caskets and recounts what happened to each person. Miss Sibiler was a schoolteacher who had no patience for children. Growski was fond of cameras and took pictures; he invited women to his home and filmed them. Detective Malcolm Toliver, called the best investigator in the United States, and Inspector McDowal, called the best in England, each wanted to be known as the world's leading criminologist. Cantwell worked in an office and paid no attention to a homeless man he passed.
Cast
- John King IIIas Marie's Husband
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The House of the Dead (1978)
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- The 1978 anthology horror film The House of the Dead was made with the help of non-unionized broadcasting students from Oklahoma State University.
