The House That Screamed (1969) on Netflix
GP19691h 40mHorrorMysteryThriller
In 19th-century France, Teresa Garan enrolls at Señora Fourneau's boarding school for troubled girls. The headmistress rules by beatings, isolates her son Luis, and students vanish.
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Plot summary
A friend of Teresa Garan's cabaret-singer mother pays for the eighteen-year-old to spend a year at Señora Fourneau's boarding school in 19th-century France. The school is run like a prison, with the headmistress beating unruly girls and keeping every door locked. Irene Tupan, a senior student taken as Señora Fourneau's protégé, holds the keys and watches over the others, using her rank to bully and torment them. Fourneau keeps her teenage son Luis away from the students, telling him none of them is good enough and that he should find a girl like her. Classmates taunt Teresa over her mother's past, and girls begin disappearing from the school, which the others take as runaways.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The House That Screamed (1969)
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- Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's La residencia was the first Spanish film produced with English dialogue: its cast of English and Spanish actors performed in both languages, and the film was then dubbed entirely into English, making it the first Spanish film presented in English.
- For its U.S. release, American International Pictures cut the film to 94 minutes so that it would not be handed an X rating; the Motion Picture Association of America instead granted it a GP rating.
- The House That Screamed went on to inspire later horror and slasher films, among them Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977) and Juan Piquer Simón's Pieces (1982).
- The film sold 2,924,836 admissions in Spain and became the highest-grossing film in Spain at the time, taking 45 million pesetas in its first six months and 83 million by the end of the year.
