Fuest’s taut thriller makes its debut on Blu-ray with a beautiful new transfer and a couple of choice extras.
The film receives a dense and gorgeous Criterion transfer that allows its amazing aesthetic complexity to reach full ghostly bloom.
The Legend of Hell House is a regrettably just-competent adaptation of a great American horror novel.
Ultimately disappointing, but Bette Davis gives Mary Poppins a run for her money.
The film is worth seeing for its tense first half, and for Bette Davis’s carefully controlled performance.