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| Directed by | Lucio Fulci |
| Written by | Lucio Fulci |
| Starring | Keith Van Hoven Karina Huff Al Cliver |
| Music by | Vince Tempera |
| Cinematography | Sebastiano Celeste |
| Release date(s) | 1989 |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
The House of Clocks (in original Italian, La casa nel tempo) is a 1989 Italian horror film directed by Lucio Fulci.
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The story revolves around a wealthy older couple who are murdered during a robbery by three young perpetrators. The event results in a supernatural reversal of time, symbolized by the fast, counter-clockwise movement of hands on the house's many clocks. Eventually, this leads to the resurrection of the older couple, who subsequently seek to terrorize the three burglars.
"The House of Clocks" is one of four films made for the Italian cable TV Series "House of Doom." Lucio Fulci himself would direct two films for the series (the first being The Sweet House of Horrors). Director Umberto Lenzi would also direct two films (House of Witchcraft and House of Lost Souls). Unfortunately the finished films were deemed too violent by producers and were never aired. They were then relegated to a DTV release.[1]
Completed late in the director's career, many Fulci fans consider this film to fall below the standard of quality set by such earlier works as Zombi 2 (1979) and The Beyond (1981). Compared to his work in the late 80's however, House of Clocks is regarded by fans to be one of his better works from the latter part of his career.
Media-Blasters subsidiary Shriek Show would release the film for the first time ever in America in 2002.[1]
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