Delusion (also known as The House Where Death Lives) is a 1980 American psychological horror and slasher film directed by Alan Beattie, and starring Patricia Pearcy, Joseph Cotten, David Hayward, and John Dukakis.
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Directed by | Alan Beattie |
Produced by | John Cofrin Alan Beattie Peter Shanaberg |
Written by | Alan Beattie Jack Viertel |
Starring | Patricia Pearcy Joseph Cotten John Dukakis David Hayward Alice Nunn |
Music by | Don Peake |
Cinematography | Stephen Posey |
Edited by | Robert Leighton |
Distributed by | New American Films International Picture Show |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The film's poster art is based on Charles Allan Gilbert's 1892 illustration All Is Vanity.
Screenplay
Nurse Meredith Stone recounts, in a letter to her father, her mother's recent death, and details a job she had taken at a Fairlawn estate caring for the wealthy, elderly Ivar Langrock. There, she is greeted by his butler, Phillip, and Jeffrey Fraser, Ivar's attorney. She finds herself almost immediately drawn to a locked room on the second floor of the house. She discovers that Wilfred, Ivar's mentally-challenged son, lives in the room. Meredith develops a friendship with Ivar, even confessing to him that her mother had been institutionalized and that her father had raped her mother.
Shortly into her tenure at the mention, Langrock's adult grandson Gabriel, who spent his life on a commune in Arizona, comes to stay after the accidental death of his parents. After his arrival, a series of deaths begin to occur; Meredith and Ivar discover his dog hanging from a tree in the garden. Wilfred also dies in what appears to be a suicide when he is found having jumped out the window of his room. Gabriel makes sexual advances toward Meredith, who finds herself increasingly uncomfortable around him.
Phillip is murdered in the wine cellar, having been crushed under a fallen wine rack and clobbered with a table leg; the police, however, conclude his death an accident, though Jeffrey accuses Gabriel of his death. Later in the evening, Gabriel is confronted at the Fairlawn estate by the detective in a garage, who tells him the coroner has deemed Philip's death a murder. After he leaves, Gabriel hears a commotion behind him, and upon returning, he finds the detective dead,. The unseen killer also attacks Gabriel, beating him to death.
Meredith, while searching the house, discovers a bloodied table leg, and calls Jeffrey, panicked. He tells her he is on his way to the house. Just as Jeffrey arrives, she discovers Gabriel's body stuffed in a closet. Jeffrey confronts her, and tells her that he has just returned from the hospital where Meredith claimed her mother was kept, and reveals that her mother died during Meredith's birth; he also accuses her of the murders, telling her she had been institutionalized for murdering her father, who had molested her. She then attacks Jeffrey with the table leg, and storms downstairs to kill Ivar. However, Ivar manages to knock her unconscious with a cane.
The film close as Meredith narrates her letter to her father, saying that maybe she will be able to return to Fairlawn one day to take care of Ivar.
- Patricia Pearcy as Meredith Stone
- David Hayward as Jeffrey Fraser
- John Dukakis as Gabriel Langrock
- Leon Charles as Phillip
- Alice Nunn as Duffy
- Patrick Pankhurst as Wilfred Langrock
- Joseph Cotten as Ivar Langrock
- Louis Basile as Taxi Driver
- Abraham Alvarez as Alex
- Simone Griffeth as Pamela Barton
- James Purcell as Detective
- Shelby Leverington as Additional Dialogue (voice)
- George P. Wilbur as Stunts
The film was released in March 1980 in the US, and again in May 1981, under the title The House Where Death Lives, by New American Films, New World Pictures, and The International Picture Show Company
It was also released on VHS by both Embassy Pictures and Sultan Video.
Delusion has received mixed reviews, with the internet aggregator Rotten Tomatoes giving it a rating of 2.8/5.0.
Retro Slashers.net reviewer Thomas Ellsion gave the film a positive review, stating that "Delusion is a subdued slasher that relies more on the skills of a veteran cast, a deliberate pace, and a twist ending" and it is "worth seeking out for fans of slashers with a heavy dose of whodunit mystery."
AllMovie, however, gave the film a negative review, stating that "slow-moving and low-key."
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