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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The House That Screamed
mamamiasweetpeaches — 19 years ago(April 12, 2006 07:41 AM)
I cant find this video anywhere. Im in America.
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mver — 19 years ago(August 01, 2006 11:11 AM)
If you would like to order "La Residencia" (or the english version "The House that Screamed") it is available at XploitedCinema.com. I ordered the english version for 19.95.
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mamamiasweetpeaches — 17 years ago(July 10, 2008 06:16 AM)
yeah, I ended up getting the Elvira version. It was the only one I could find!
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ibreakdishes — 17 years ago(April 18, 2008 01:28 AM)
I wish I knew. The INDB shows some picture or cover-art image, is that from a VHS box?
I saw it on a crappy-little-independent-station as a teen and taped it, but it is cut, of course. It is so wonderful and artsy (as well as trashy and so dubbed it is hilarious). I love Madame Fourneau, and many of "the gelzz," as she calls them, Mademoiselle Lessier ("Take off your clothes!" "I don't WANT to!"), Mademoiselle Toupin, Mademoiselle Perrier with the queerly distorted mouth who does the reading at Dinner and gets indignant about defending gardening, and the kindly Mademoiselle Noel, even though she traipses out to meet the gardener. But then, they all do. And of course, the heroin ("it's a CABARET!").
I researched microfische files at my college for our local Arizona newspaper for that year, and it seemed to be a Drive-In movie only, but it had cool artwork.
A friend bought it as "La Residencia" online years ago, but the quality was SO bad I could not even watch all of it, though I was so curious as to what got cut out. The Conservatory Murder is so artsy, but it's CHOPPED in any TV versions I see.
Favorite quotes:
Madame: "Are you a relative?"
Monsieur Baladi: "No, just a FRIEND of the Mother."
Girl on stairs: "I've run out of stockings, can you lend me few pair?
Second girl hushes her: "Shhh!"
First girl says "Oh SHUT UP, you."
Cook: "Pies and cakes take LOTS of time and patience, just like CHILDREN."
Madame: "Needlepoint can be very beautiful, especially when you learn to mix the colors."
(Madame, bored, to the weird-mouthed girl doing the reading during dinner): "Enough, Mademoiselle Perrier."
Cook: "Once the pie is in the oven, it's very important to keep it at a constant temperature. OTHERWISE the pastry will be HEAVY. I remember my mother used to say, 'the harder you beat the pastry in the beginning, the softer it will be in the end.' The baking time is most important, since we can't see what's going on inside the oven. If we could see, life would be so much-" (fades, and is cut off by thunder-clap).
Madame dictating: "Mollierewas an absolute masterMolliere..was an absolute masterin creating his characters. Increatinghis characters" (etcetera).
Cook: "How's it going, oh YOU'LL have a lot more work to do; how 'bout yours? VERY good, you can go upstairs." (WHY does she get to go "upstairs" just because her pastry is okay?)
Girl, seeing sexy corset: "Well, I think it's lovely. Will you sell it to me?"
(Other girl: "I'll GIVE it to you!")
Girl: "Thank you" (non-enthusiastically, as she puts it aside and doesn't give it a second glance).
Mademoiselle Noel: "And all this STUPID waste of time is what THEY call 'the art of gardening.'"
Mademoiselle Perrier: "The 'ART of GARDENING' is the POETRY of NATURE!!"
Really cool music bits: The conservatory killing; the dirge-like piano as the girls practice ballet; the nervous music when Mademoiselle Toupin has to turn over her keys, which makes Madame Forneau mess up during dictation; and the slow build-up music to the girl's escape on the rainy night and the hand coming 'round to open the door.
And countless other things.
Anyone else? Favorite lines/scenes/nuances? I am so glad I found a board for this. -
KatharynRKing — 15 years ago(October 10, 2010 08:32 PM)
Personally, I love the whipping sceneSO INTENSE !! And then how Madame Fourneau takes up a cloth and water and starts cleaning the wounds and such. Then she kisses the girl's bloodied backof course, the ACTUAL moment where she kisses it is CUT in every version I've seen, it is OBVIOUS that that's what she is doing just before it jumps to her going to the door.
Anyway, I love that scene.
My favourite nuances are all those of Madame Fourneau. I find her to be strangely attractive.
~~"I came up from the dark without you, and every day since has been in shadow.~~
