Usually, when you decide to watch a movie about ghosts and seances and haunted houses, you're not expecting the movie to be of Academy Award winning quality, right? Good, because lots of tv movies from the 1970s fit into that genre, and they're usually rather cheap and overdramatic.
In The House That Would Not Die, Barbara Stanwyck and her niece Kitty Winn move into a new house, but after a neighbor suggests they conduct a séance in it-because that's totally a good idea-two ghosts possess Kitty and Richard Egan, a friend. Together, Barbara and Michael Anderson Jr. have to solve the mystery of the two ghosts and figure out how to rid their friends of them.
I got a kick out of watching Michael Anderson Jr.'s straight dramatic performance, since I remember him from his flawless comic turn in Dear Heart. But unless you absolutely love movies like this, or will sit through anything Barbara Stanwyck ever made, you don't need to sit through this one.
In The House That Would Not Die, Barbara Stanwyck and her niece Kitty Winn move into a new house, but after a neighbor suggests they conduct a séance in it-because that's totally a good idea-two ghosts possess Kitty and Richard Egan, a friend. Together, Barbara and Michael Anderson Jr. have to solve the mystery of the two ghosts and figure out how to rid their friends of them.
I got a kick out of watching Michael Anderson Jr.'s straight dramatic performance, since I remember him from his flawless comic turn in Dear Heart. But unless you absolutely love movies like this, or will sit through anything Barbara Stanwyck ever made, you don't need to sit through this one.