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Just because a movie is bad doesn't mean people won't like it. House of Horrors is a B-schlock classic. Contrived, marginal acting, sub-intelligent plot, low-brow entertainment, fantastic! And I find the contention that poor Rondo Hattan was "exploited" to be very tiresome. The guy has gone down into cinematic history! He has a solid fan base nearly 60 years after his death. Tom Cruise, Richard Gere and others adored purely on their looks can only hope to be so fondly remembered. I give House of Horrors a B for Bad. And that's damn good.

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The Creeper creeps.
A second string suspense thriller from Universal Studios. A crazed sculptor and a brute killer form an unholy alliance and spread dreadful death through the art community. The best thing this little movie has going for it is Rondo Hatton as The Creeper. Hatton suffered from a disfiguring bone disease and he played horror roles without makeup. He goes around snapping the spines of nasty art critics who disparage the work of his sculptor friend. Hatton's range as an actor was limited, but he managed to project some of the melancholy isolation from the world that was a trademark of Boris Karloff's portrayal of the Frankenstein monster. His friendship with De Lange, the sculptor, recalls the monster and Ygor. The script is guilty of second rate cliches. Most of the attempts at witty remarks sound corny and fall flat. Robert Lowery plays a Vargas type illustrator who specializes in cheesecake art. Baby boomers may recall Lowery as Big Tim Champion of the old "Circus Boy" TV program. Look close, and you can see Virginia Christine (later Mrs. Olson of Folgers Coffee fame) as a doomed streetwalker. Throw it all in the blender and you have a lightweight but enjoyable thriller. It's good stuff for collectors of Grade B horror flicks. Other viewers should tread carefully. ;-)

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The worst type of explotation
The films premise is simple and inept, look how ugly the Creeper is ! Rondo Hatton who was disfigured due to being gassed in the trenches in WW1, which caused his limbs to grow abnormally is throughly exploited in this disgusting attempt at entertainment. Apart from the fact that the Creeper cycle of films were diabolically poor in the first place and that as far as I can remember when it was first released the ads said "See the ugliest man in Hollywood, The ugliest man alive" as at draw for the audience is a sign of a very very poor production. The only good thing that came out of this cinematic offal is that Hatton ended up marrying one of the most beautiful starlets of the time I cant remember her name but I do remember a reporter asking how she could marry such an ugly man. From a time America should be ashamed of this repugnent trash should be shown to people in an object lesson on how insensitive and ignorant we humans can be.