SoftInloveRox Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

aristotle61 This movie makes me want to track down the people who made it and make them watch their own movie. Virtually everything about this movie is terrible. The noise, I mean music, you hear at the beginning of the movie is just the beginning of your suffering if you continue to watch the movie. The music isn't even music, it's just fingers scratching a chalkboard. The acting is lousy. Oliver Reed, and Gig Young must have been desperate for money when they made this garbage. It fits Carol Lynley because she never could act.The story is beyond absurd. H.P. Lovecraft must be spinning in his grave. Just read the story because if you are a fan of HP Lovecraft, you will not be happy seeing what they have done with "The Shuttered Room." The setting for the story is all wrong. It's based in the sixties but they still act like it's the eighteen hundreds.I really resent having to give this movie one star.

meddlecore So THIS is where the evil twin trapped in the attic trope originated from.It all begins when Susannah Whately returns to her island home- with her new husband, Mike. After receiving word she has inherited her parent's old mill, following their tragic deaths.The island is filled with a bunch of rapey rednecks, who have nothing better to do, than to try and sexually assault young Susannah.Her aunt warns her to stay away from the old mill...as it harbours the family curse.All of her relatives have met violent ends.But the newlywed couple isn't so easily scared. They plan to clean the place up and make it their summer home.Ominous warnings aside, most of the tension comes from the potential rape of Susannah- at the hands of local thug Ethan (played by Oliver Reed).These scenes are genuinely disturbing, and are where most of the horror in this film is derived.You are kind of led to believe that the person hidden away in the attic is deformed...so it's a surprise when you see it is a female, once the twist rolls around.But, then you realize...hey, this is where The Simpson's got it from! Cool film, with lot's of rapey tension.5.5 out of 10.

MartinHafer weird hearing Sutherland's voice coming out of Zebulon odd casting two Brits in film as well as location Australian, Americans double for Young how'd she get bra back on? cool ending with aunt and 'thing' "The Shuttered Room" is a very good horror movie. It's consistently creepy and offered a few surprises.The film is difficult to place. While some of the cast are Americans and the countryside looks a bit American (especially with the American car which is prominently seen throughout the film). But, the film also features some Brits and at least on Aussie--giving the film a rather strange pedigree. But, this is a minor concern."The Shuttered Room" begins in the past. Some weird creature is living in a house and has escaped--and Dad rushes off to return it to its attic lair. Now the film jumps ahead about 20 years. The young child in the beginning of the film has grown (now played by Carol Lynley) and has returned to this weird village after having been removed and raised in New York soon after the initial scene. She has now returned with her husband (Gig Young) to reclaim her home--one that apparently has sat gathering dust during this intervening period. But the family matriarch (Flora Robson) warns them not to enter the home...it's cursed! While you know that they will eventually move in to the home, in the meantime another evil force is afoot. The lady's cousin (Oliver Reed) is a bit of a sociopath and he and his friends seem bent on rape and/or murder--all for 'kicks'! So who should the couple fear--the cousin, the 'thing that is in the attic' or both? Overall, the film does a great job of setting a creepy mood and providing lots of terror for the couple. The acting isn't bad, though the idea of Young playing an action hero seemed a bit silly--as did the bad use of a double in his fight scenes (it's so obviously NOT him). Howver, the good easily outweighs the bad and it's well worth your time if you like creepy movies...and I do.By the way, early in the film it was rather disconcerting to hear Zebulon speak, as it clearly was NOT his voice but Donald Sutherland's! I am not sure why they had him dub this man, but he is listed in the IMDb credits for this.

Woodyanders Troubled Susannah Kelton (an excellent and affecting performance by the lovely Carol Lynley) and her wise, sensible husband Mike (splendidly played by Gig Young) inherit a rundown old mill house that's located on an isolated New England island. The Keltons receive a chilly reception from the unfriendly locals and are warned by Susannah's kindly, but formidable Aunt Agatha (a spot-on redoubtable turn by Flora Robson) that the place has a curse on it. Ably directed with stylish aplomb by David Greene, with a deliciously eerie and mysterious brooding Gothic atmosphere that positively drips with dread and menace, an intriguing script by D.B. Ledrov and Nathaniel Tanchuck, evocative use of the verdant countryside locations, crisp and vibrant cinematography by Ken Hodges (the occasional artful use of fades and dissolves is especially striking), colorful characters, a marvelously spooky and offbeat discordant experimental jazz score by Basil Kirchin, witty dialogue, a flavorsome depiction of the remote rural region, and a rousing fiery conclusion, this film really hits the bull's eye as a superior 60's shocker. Young and Lynley make for extremely engaging leads. Moreover, Oliver Reed contributes a delightfully leering and hearty portrayal of unruly no-count trouble-making lout Ethan, who has a most unsavory lascivious interest in poor Susannah. The explanation for what's really going on in the mill house is not only expectedly startling, but also surprisingly poignant. A fun and engrossing fright feature.