| House of Horrors | |
|---|---|
 Meet the Creeper! | |
| Credits | |
| Title | House of Horrors |
| Directed by | Jean Yarbrough |
| Written by | Dwight V. Babcock; George Bricker |
| Produced by | Ben Pivar |
| Music by | |
| Cinematography | Maury Gertsman |
| Edited by | Philip Cahn |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| General Information | |
| Release date(s) | March 29th, 1946 |
| Film Rating | Unrated |
| Running time | 65 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Budget | Unknown |
| Gross revenue | Unknown |
| Preceded by | — |
| Followed by | The Brute Man (1946) |
Plot[]
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Rondo Hatton | The Creeper |
| Robert Lowery | Steven Morrow |
| Virginia Grey | Joan Medford |
| Bill Goodwin | Lieutenant Larry Brooks |
| Martin Kosleck | Marcel De Lange |
| Alan Napier | F. Holmes Harmon |
| Howard Freeman | Hal Ormiston |
| Virginia Christine | Lady of the streets |
| Joan Fulton | Stella McNally |
| Oliver Blake | The Janitor |
| Mary Field | Nora, switchboard operator |
| Byron Foulger | Mister Samuels |
| Perc Launders | Smitty, typesetter |
| Terry Mason | Clarence, copy boy |
| William Newell | Deputy coroner |
| Jack Parker | Elevator boy |
| Syd Saylor | Jerry, morgue attendant |
| Janet Shaw | Cab driver |
| Charles Wagenheim | Walter, printer |
Notes & Trivia[]
- Alternatively known as Joan Medford is Missing in in the UK.
- Filmed in September, 1945 at Universal Studios, Universal City, California.
- Director Jean Yarbrough has also directed The Devil Bat, King of the Zombies, She-Wolf of London and The Creeper, as well as three episodes of The Addams Family.
- Rondo Hatton, known for his stark, brutish features as a result of acromegaly, has played similar roles in Sleepy Lagoon, The Pearl of Death, The Jungle Captive, The Spider Woman Strikes Back and The Brute Man. This film was released three weeks after Hatton's death on February 2nd, 1946. Hatton's final (posthumous) film appearance however was The Brute Man, also directed by Jean Yarbrough, which was released on October 1st, 1946.
- The tagline for this film, "Meet the CREEPER", was also the name of a song recorded by Rob Zombie, which appeared as a single and as track 9 on his 1998 solo album Hellbilly Deluxe. Zombie, a longtime fan of the horror genre, often included classic horror movie references in his work. He later went on to direct the Halloween remake series as well as the films House of 1000 Corpses and it's 2005 sequel The Devil's Rejects.
External Links[]
- House of Horrors at AMG
- House of Horrors at IMDB
- House of Horrors at Wikipedia
- House of Horrors at The Terror Trap
- House of Horrors at Monster Hunter
- House of Horrors at AbandoMoviez.net
- House of Horrors at Fantastic Movie Musings & Ramblings