The Shuttered Room *** (1967, Oliver Reed, Gig Young, Carol Lynley, Flora Robson) – Classic Movie Review 7287

Director David Greene’s 1967 British-made chiller The Shuttered Room is a very acceptable film of H P Lovecraft’s spooky story of a husband and wife, Mike and Susannah (Gig Young, Carol Lynley) visiting the orphan Susannah (Lynley)’s former New England island home and being terrorised by local rowdies and a bloody thing in a locked, shuttered room in the attic of the mill she has inherited.

Performed with considerable style by a classy cast, The Shuttered Room is nice and eerie, and director Greene brings plenty of tension and eerie atmosphere to the offbeat tale. It also stars Flora Robson as Susannah’s Aunt Agatha, and Oliver Reed, who enjoys himself as Susannah’s crazy cousin Ethan.

Yes, though it seems entirely American, it is British made – it is actually filmed in Cornwall.

The Shuttered Room also features William Devlin, Bernard Kay, Judith Arthy, Ann Bell, Robert Cawdron, Celia Hewitt, Ingrid Bower, Charles Lloyd Pack, Anita Anderson, Peter Porteous, Murray Evans , Rick Jones, and Cliff Diggins.

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