Haunted Movie Review:
The Shunned House (2003)
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Director
Ivan Zuccon
Writer(s)
H.P. Lovecraft … (short stories)
Enrico Saletti … (screenwriter)
Ivan Zuccon … (screenwriter)
Cast
Giuseppe Lorusso … Alex
Federica Quaglieri … Rita
Emanuele Cerman … Luigi Montella
Silvia Ferreri … Nora / Estelle Roulet
Plot Summary
The Shunned House takes three stories by gothic horror-meister H.P. Lovecraft, weaves them together (more or less), and sets them in a crumbling Italian mansion. Opposed realities clash, overlap, and bleed together as a pair of investigators encounter and wrestle with an ageless and inexplicable housebound dread. Are the investigators going mad? Are there rational explanations for the terror within these mouldering walls? Or is something genuinely supernatural afoot? The Shunned House is an earnestly chilling tale, which to a surprising degree captures the morose spirit of Lovecraft’s work. The fact that it does so in the context of a zero-budget film arguably makes it all the more admirable.
The Real Ghost Hunters’ Perspective
Giuseppe Lorusso is Alex… the paranormal specialist/journalist who has ventured to the haunted house in hopes of a story.
Federica Quaglieri is Rita… Alex’s skeptical girlfriend who, for some inexplicable reason, is being forced to see all the visions of death in the house.
Nicolo Viganelli is the Young Alex, the boy with the ball and the white goo.
