House of Mystery

At just under an hour long, this film shows what can be done with a good script and good acting. Everything makes sense and there are no plot holes. Although you can guess who the mysterious woman telling the story is pretty easily, this doesn't detract from a fascinating tale of avarice and horror. A couple want to buy a house but are curious why the price is so low. The woman who lets them in shows them around and tells them the story of the house. A woman and her lover vanish. An inventor mysteriously dies. Lights go on and off in the house. A man's figure appears and disappears. All this is knitted into a tight story which would have done justice to "Lights Out", "Inner Sanctum" or "Thriller".