Terror in the Haunted House. (1958 film)

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A newlywed is terrified when her husband brings her to live in the old house that figures in her recurring nightmare.  Gerald Mohr - Philip Tierney Cathy O'Donnell Sheila Wayne (as Kathy O'Donnell) William Ching - Mark Snell (as Bill Ching) John Qualen - Jonah Snell Barry Bernard - Dr. Victor Forel

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00:01:44On a mailbox beside the driveway,

00:01:46I can make out the name of the people who lived there once.

00:01:51Tierney.

00:01:52But the Tierneys must have all gone away a long time ago.

00:01:57And the house stands like a moldering tombstone

00:02:01to a world that died.

00:02:06There is an old-fashioned knocker on the door.

00:02:14An unseen hand always opens the door for me.

00:02:25I always go up the shadowy stairway

00:02:28as if I know exactly where to find the answer

00:02:31to what has drawn me here.

00:02:51It's behind a little unmarked door.

00:02:55And some unearthly power swings it open to receive me.

00:03:00I look up that narrow, dusty stairway,

00:03:03and for a moment that is so brief,

00:03:06so filled with terror that my mind cannot hold on to it,

00:03:09I know why I had to come to this place.

00:03:26Did I go up the stairs this time, Doctor?

00:03:29No, it was the same as before.

00:03:31You almost bring yourself to see the truth, and then you...

00:03:34But what truth?

00:03:35All I know is that death in its most hideous form

00:03:38waits for me at the top of those stairs.

00:03:41That's not all you know, Mrs. Justin.

00:03:43You hold the answer deep within your own mind.

00:03:46Consciously, you've forgotten it.

00:03:48That's the way the human mind works.

00:03:51Whenever something is too unpleasant, too shameful

00:03:53for us to entertain, we reject it.

00:03:56We erase it from our memory.

00:03:58But the imprint is always there.

00:04:00Nothing is ever really forgotten.

00:04:02But don't all of us do things we're ashamed of?

00:04:06We wouldn't be human if we hadn't.

00:04:08I'm quite human, Doctor.

00:04:11But there's nothing in my past that I couldn't tell my husband,

00:04:14or that I haven't told you.

00:04:16I have never seen that house, except in my dream.

00:04:22I can't connect it with any place or anyone I've ever known.

00:04:27You're an orphan?

00:04:28Yes.

00:04:30You've lived most of your life here in Switzerland?

00:04:32Yes.

00:04:33I was sent here as a child for my health.

00:04:37Incipient tuberculosis, from which you made a complete recovery.

00:04:41I'm strong as an ox now.

00:04:44Those two years in the sanitarium,

00:04:47it's not a very happy time, was it?

00:04:51I don't have a very clear recollection of them now.

00:04:55These nightmares resumed about six weeks ago.

00:04:59Yes.

00:05:00You've been married about the same length of time.

00:05:02You're in the wrong track there, Doctor.

00:05:05I told Philip everything.

00:05:07It made very dull telling, I assure you.

00:05:10And now he's taking you back to America?

00:05:12Yes.

00:05:13You're happy about this, of course.

00:05:15I couldn't be happier.

00:05:17I love Switzerland, but after all, America's my real home.

00:05:22Well, perhaps it's for the best.

00:05:26These dreams may have some associations for you here in Switzerland.

00:05:30If so, I think it's quite possible you may leave these behind too.

00:05:34At least we hope so.

00:05:37Well, that's certainly good news, Doctor.

00:05:41Dr. Farrell.

00:05:42Yes?

00:05:43You don't believe there's really any connection

00:05:45between my dreams and my marriage, do you?

00:05:48No, no.

00:05:49I merely noted the coincidence.

00:05:51But several times you suggested Philip come to see you.

00:05:54Why?

00:05:55I do that in most cases, Mrs. Justin.

00:05:58Sometimes the husband can be very helpful.

00:06:01Well, I know he always intended to come,

00:06:03but he had such a short time in Switzerland

00:06:07and he loves to go up in the mountains alone.

00:06:10Mrs. Justin, your husband came to see me two weeks ago.

00:06:18Oh, yes.

00:06:19I believe it slipped to my mind.

00:06:24Was it helpful, Doctor?

00:06:26I believe you've known your husband a very short time.

00:06:30Yes.

00:06:31We had what you call in America a whirlwind romance.

00:06:35Then whatever's causing these dreams occurred a long time

00:06:37before you met Philip Justin.

00:06:43Goodbye, Doctor.

00:06:45Goodbye, Mrs. Justin.

00:06:47And thank you for helping me.

00:07:05Darling, I'm back.

00:07:07I've got everything.

00:07:08Tickets, passports, money, smallpox certificates.

00:07:13What about customs decorations?

00:07:15Don't give them to you on the plane.

00:07:16You'll have hours to fill them out.

00:07:18Don't be too excited.

00:07:20What did I do with the tickets?

00:07:21You got them right in your hand.

00:07:24I can see you're going to be very useful to have around.

00:07:26Oh, you have no idea.

00:07:32I'm glad we'll be flying at night.

00:07:34We can make all the way across the Atlantic.

00:07:37You don't have to wait that long.

00:07:40Used to be a gag I pulled at college.

00:07:43We would take a girl down to the airport, bus depot, station,

00:07:46and watch the train or plane pull out.

00:07:49Then we'd kiss the girl goodbye.

00:07:55Only she wouldn't be going anywhere.

00:07:57But nobody would know that.

00:08:01All right, who was she?

00:08:03Oh, that was long ago.

00:08:04Come on, I told Dr. Farrell I confessed all to you.

00:08:08Now it's your turn.

00:08:10How was the session with Farrell?

00:08:12No change.

00:08:14Now he tells me the dreams are caused by something scandalous.

00:08:18I did and then forgot.

00:08:21Well, aren't you worried, darling?

00:08:23I may have a perfectly dreadful past neither one of us knows about.

00:08:27I don't believe you ever went to a station to watch the train pull out.

00:08:31They're so smug.

00:08:32These Swiss boys know a few tricks too.

00:08:35Uh-huh.

00:08:36The way all they ever did to you was yodel.

00:08:39First time I kissed you, your nose got in the way.

00:08:48Oh, you're learning.

00:08:52Keep on teaching, Professor.

00:09:10Philip.

00:09:14What is it? A dream?

00:09:15No, I wasn't sleeping.

00:09:18I just remembered something awful.

00:09:20I forgot to have the initials and my luggage changed.

00:09:24Well, it'll get through customs anyway.

00:09:26But they're all marked SW.

00:09:28Your family might think we're not married.

00:09:32I don't have any family, Sheila.

00:09:36Well, you never told me that, Philip.

00:09:40There's so much I don't know about you.

00:09:43It doesn't matter.

00:09:45Not really.

00:09:46But I want to know everything you did before you met me.

00:09:50What you do, where you come from,

00:09:53how you got along without me all these years.

00:09:57All these years I've been looking for you.

00:10:01I try to get some sleep.

00:10:03All right.

00:10:08Philip.

00:10:10Yes?

00:10:11Why didn't you tell me you went to see Dr. Farrell?

00:10:15I did tell you.

00:10:17Don't you remember?

00:10:19No.

00:10:23I guess I didn't hear you.

00:10:50We're lost, aren't we?

00:10:52No.

00:10:54No, it's the right road.

00:10:58It's creepy looking.

00:11:00I wish we'd stayed in New York.

00:11:02You need a quiet place where you can rest for a couple of weeks.

00:11:06You make me sound like an invalid.

00:11:08Well, you did have that dream again last night.

00:11:13Yes.

00:11:42I don't know.

00:11:43You had to kill me more than my son.

00:11:43Turn around.

00:11:44Go back, Philip.

00:11:45Take me away, take me away.

00:11:47Sheila, what is it?

00:11:48What's wrong?

00:11:49It's the house.

00:11:51Going in my dreams.

00:11:53Nonsense.

00:11:54It can't be.

00:11:55You said you'd never been in Florida before.

00:11:57How could you have seen it?

00:11:57I never saw it before, but that's the house.

00:12:02Oh, Philip, I'm frightened.

00:12:04It's an old, empty house.

00:12:06Why are you afraid of a house?

00:12:09I don't know.

00:12:12Whatever's inside, it's horrible.

00:12:17I don't know what it is.

00:12:19There's nothing to be afraid of.

00:12:22An empty house can't hurt you.

00:12:24But it's the same house.

00:12:25You know that's impossible.

00:12:29Look, you dreamed of an old house.

00:12:31The first one you see reminds you of it.

00:12:34You simply made the transference in your mind.

00:12:37You've got to be sensible.

00:12:38You can't dream about a place you've never seen.

00:12:41It's exactly the same.

00:12:44There's trees.

00:12:46There's storm windows.

00:12:50That must be the attic.

00:12:52Every old house has an attic.

00:12:55Do we have to go in there?

00:12:58Yes.

00:13:00It'll be good for you.

00:13:02Once you realize there's nothing in there that can hurt you,

00:13:05the dream will go away.

00:13:08Side, darling.

00:13:10I'll be with you every minute.

00:13:33okay,he'll

00:13:35war. I'm

00:13:35a war. Come

00:13:39on, pay me on

00:13:40-and-and-and

00:13:40-and-and-and-and-and-and-and-and-and-and-and.

00:13:40Oh, oh, oh, oh.

00:14:03What do you want here?

00:14:05I'm Jonah, the caretaker.

00:14:08And I'm Justin, the new residence.

00:14:10Oh, you've come to the wrong place.

00:14:13This house ain't never rented.

00:14:15It is now.

00:14:16Well, they would have told me about it.

00:14:19I've just told you we've rented the house.

00:14:21We're going to live here.

00:14:23Now you know.

00:14:25Lie down.

00:14:31Come on.

00:14:41Philip.

00:14:41Don't be frightened, darling.

00:14:44I'll go out and get the bags.

00:14:46You wait right here.

00:14:46Mm-hmm.

00:15:01My husband took the house on short notice.

00:15:04I'm sure you'll be notified by mail in a day or two.

00:15:08There ain't been no mail here for the last 17 years.

00:15:13It's been empty that long?

00:15:15Mm-hmm.

00:15:17Must have been a lovely home once.

00:15:20What happened to the people who lived here?

00:15:22They went away.

00:15:24One by one they went away.

00:15:26Except me.

00:15:29Isn't it lonely for you?

00:15:32Lonely?

00:15:33No.

00:15:34It ain't lonely.

00:15:35I got my dog.

00:15:37You see, I'm waiting for them to come back.

00:15:40That's why I keep it like it was.

00:15:43For them.

00:15:45For whom?

00:15:47Well, the folks it belongs to.

00:15:50It's theirs.

00:15:51That's why I try to keep it looking nice.

00:15:56What was...

00:16:00What's their name?

00:16:02We carry the bags upstairs and we decide which bedroom we're going to use.

00:16:17Philip, this is the house.

00:16:19I know every step before I take it.

00:16:23I go up there.

00:16:25Along the railing to the left there's a bedroom.

00:16:30Hideous wallpaper.

00:16:33Huge awful looking flowers on it.

00:16:38You never mentioned going into a bedroom in your dream.

00:16:43No, I didn't.

00:16:47Maybe I see it as I go past.

00:16:54The door is closed.

00:17:20Sheila.

00:17:27I told you, Philip.

00:17:29I told you what it was like.

00:17:33Now do you believe me?

00:17:35This is the house I dreamed about.

00:17:37But why?

00:17:37Why do you dream about it?

00:17:38What does it mean to you?

00:17:41It means I'm going to die here.

00:17:45Philip, take me away.

00:17:46I can't stay here.

00:17:47I can't.

00:17:48I'll go out of my mind.

00:17:51All right, darling.

00:17:53We'll go away.

00:18:16I'm going to die here.

00:18:19I am going to die here.

00:18:25Let's go.

00:18:59We've got a spare can of gasoline.

00:19:01Isn't that?

00:19:03The tank's half full.

00:19:28What's wrong?

00:19:31It's been wrecked.

00:19:33The wires have been pulled out.

00:19:34The distributor cap is missing.

00:19:36Jonah.

00:19:39Why?

00:19:39He tried to keep us from staying here.

00:19:41Why did he do it?

00:19:42I don't know.

00:19:43For some reason he changed his mind.

00:19:45Can't you repair it?

00:19:48I can probably fix the wires, but without the distributor cap we're stuck here.

00:20:09John.

00:20:11The name is on the mailbox.

00:20:15What?

00:20:17You asked me who used to live here.

00:20:19You can still see the name on the mailbox.

00:20:23Tierney.

00:20:27Why did they all leave?

00:20:29Why?

00:20:30Nobody knows why they ever did anything.

00:20:33It was all the same.

00:20:35The whole family.

00:20:37Folks around here used to call them the, the mad Tierneys.

00:20:41Didn't you know that?

00:20:43No.

00:20:44Then how come you know the name?

00:20:46You didn't see the name on the mailbox.

00:20:49I watched you come.

00:20:50I don't know how I knew.

00:20:53Maybe I've been here before.

00:20:55A long time ago.

00:20:58No.

00:20:59I would have remembered you.

00:21:01I've always been here.

00:21:03If you've been here before, I would have remembered.

00:21:07It's all vaguely familiar.

00:21:10Like, like something that happened when you were a small child.

00:21:15What do you remember?

00:21:18I'm not sure.

00:21:22I can see myself as a little girl playing in the grass.

00:21:28There was a boy.

00:21:30He was older than I was.

00:21:33I think I was in love with him.

00:21:38I think he carved our initials on the trunk of a tree.

00:21:43A big old palm tree.

00:21:49It's all so vague.

00:21:52I don't know where it came from.

00:21:54I know every tree on this plantation.

00:21:58I would have seen them initials.

00:22:04Maybe it was someplace just like this.

00:22:12I thought I heard your voice.

00:22:14Jonah came back.

00:22:15Oh?

00:22:15Well, he's gone again.

00:22:18I tried to keep him talking until you came down.

00:22:21Did you ask him why you disabled the car?

00:22:24I was afraid to.

00:22:25He acts so queer.

00:22:28He's been living here alone too long.

00:22:30I'm sorry there's no coffee.

00:22:33None of the stoves in here work.

00:22:35Oh, this is fine.

00:22:40Philip.

00:22:41Yes?

00:22:42Did you bring that gun with you?

00:22:45Yes, in my suitcase.

00:22:47Why?

00:22:48I don't know.

00:22:49That dog frightens me.

00:22:53So does Jonah.

00:22:57I just feel better knowing you have it.

00:23:04Look!

00:23:06He's seen.

00:23:07He's seen.

00:23:09He's seen.

00:23:12I don't know.

00:23:14I'm the best friend.

00:23:14He's seen.

00:23:15I'm the best friend.

00:23:16Awww!

00:23:17Awww!

00:23:20.

00:23:21.

00:23:39Philip!

00:23:41Philip!

00:23:43Philip!

00:23:52Where are you?

00:23:56Where are you?

00:24:28Philip!

00:24:32Philip!

00:24:53Sheila, what is it?

00:24:56Philip!

00:24:58What's wrong?

00:24:59Where were you?

00:25:00Looking for you.

00:25:02I woke up and you were gone.

00:25:04I couldn't sleep.

00:25:05I took a walk.

00:25:07I tried to find you.

00:25:08And then that dog came after me.

00:25:10He's out there.

00:25:12Stay here.

00:25:13Jonah!

00:25:17Light up!

00:25:19Jonah!

00:25:21Get the Santa Malata here and tie him up.

00:25:23I had him locked up in the cello.

00:25:25Somebody must have let him out.

00:25:26If anybody let him out, it was you.

00:25:28Now take him back and tie him up.

00:25:29If he gets loose again, I'll shoot him.

00:25:31Yes, sir.

00:25:32Come on, Jenkins.

00:25:33Come with Jonah.

00:25:42Everything's all right now.

00:25:43Don't worry.

00:25:46What ever made you go prowling around in the dark?

00:25:49There was someone looking in that window.

00:25:52A hideous, inhuman face.

00:25:55You weren't here.

00:25:55I was so frightened.

00:25:58It had to be Jonah.

00:26:00There's no one else around here for miles.

00:26:04For some reason, he's trying to scare us away from here.

00:26:07Why?

00:26:09He disabled our car to keep us here.

00:26:12I don't know.

00:26:14I'm going to find out right now.

00:26:16Philip!

00:26:17Don't worry.

00:26:19Just lock the door.

00:26:21You'll be safe here.

00:26:23I'll be back in five minutes.

00:26:27All right.

00:26:29Take your gun.

00:26:31I can handle it.

00:26:41I'll be back in five minutes.

00:27:04Distributing.

00:27:07Hello.

00:27:37I'll be back in five minutes.

00:27:38Follow me, brother.

00:27:40I'll check your house.

00:27:41I'll be right back in six minutes.

00:27:41Although my daughter might be at the end of this room.

00:27:44Let's go.

00:28:27Come on.

00:28:44Come on.

00:29:15We have coffee this morning.

00:29:19Here we go.

00:29:21Drink this, huh?

00:29:26Slept badly?

00:29:29Dream again, huh?

00:29:31I wasn't dreaming.

00:29:33I found the door to the attic.

00:29:36I told you, all these old houses have attics.

00:29:38I recognized it the instant I saw it.

00:29:41It was just like in my dream.

00:29:44Was it?

00:29:47I don't remember.

00:29:49But you must remember.

00:29:51Don't you see, once you understand what it all means,

00:29:53you'll never have the dreams again.

00:29:56Is that why you brought me to this house, Philip?

00:29:59Darling, I brought you here for rest and to get over the dreams.

00:30:02But why to this house?

00:30:05How did you know where it was? I didn't even know.

00:30:08How did you find it?

00:30:10It's only the same house in your imagination.

00:30:14You're lying!

00:30:19Why are you doing this to me?

00:30:22Why?

00:30:25Finish your breakfast. I'll be downstairs.

00:30:37It's a little bit happier.

00:30:48I will see my breakfast.

00:30:49Distributors of the принnel.

00:30:50Let me see you.

00:30:53I got my breakfast.

00:30:55I'm playing at the table.

00:30:56Just in the end you are waiting for me.

00:30:57Yes, ma'am.

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00:34:31On the contrary, he did his best to frighten us away.

00:34:36Oh?

00:34:37Well, all I can suggest is that you get in the car

00:34:41and drive with me to the nearest garage

00:34:42and have a mechanic sent back.

00:34:45I can't go until my husband comes.

00:34:48Mrs. Justin, the idea is for both of you to leave.

00:34:52Suppose we refuse to leave.

00:34:56What are you going to do about it?

00:34:58Philip? Good Lord, I had no idea. Your wife said that her name...

00:35:01I asked you how you intend to make us leave.

00:35:04Why on earth would you want to stay in an old place like...

00:35:07You could run us off, huh?

00:35:14With an axe.

00:35:21I simply said that the house was dangerous.

00:35:23Naturally, if you want to stay here under these conditions,

00:35:28you're perfectly welcome.

00:35:32Well, I'm not being a very good host.

00:35:37It's been many years, Philip.

00:35:39We've lost touch with you.

00:35:42Where have you been?

00:35:44In Europe.

00:35:46Oh, Switzerland.

00:35:50Philip and I were married recently.

00:35:52In Lausanne.

00:35:53I hope I'm not interrupting our honeymoon if I stay a few days.

00:35:56Now that I'm here, I thought I'd look the old place over...

00:35:59and see if there's anything that could be done with it.

00:36:02You don't mind, do you, Philip?

00:36:05It's yours, isn't it?

00:36:15I'm afraid most of that went over my head.

00:36:19Philip never mentioned that he knew you...

00:36:21or that you owned the house.

00:36:23What did he say?

00:36:25Nothing, really.

00:36:27He must have given you some explanation for bringing you back here.

00:36:31Back here?

00:36:33And I have been here before.

00:36:37I...

00:36:38I don't know.

00:36:39But you said back here.

00:36:41That's what you meant.

00:36:43You know I've been here before, don't you?

00:36:46Don't you?

00:36:47This is a place you could never forget.

00:36:49You do remember being here, don't you, Mrs. Tierney?

00:36:52I'm not sure.

00:36:55Why did you call me Mrs. Tierney?

00:36:59Did I?

00:37:01I met Mrs. Justin, of course.

00:37:04S.W.

00:37:06And P.T.

00:37:09Philip Tierney.

00:37:11That's his name, isn't it?

00:37:13Look at me, Mr. Snell.

00:37:15I want to know.

00:37:16It's true, isn't it?

00:37:17Yes.

00:37:19Philip is the last of the Tierney's.

00:37:21The last of the mad Tierney's.

00:37:24That's what they're called, isn't it?

00:37:27And those initials on that old tree.

00:37:30S.W.

00:37:32Sheila Wayne.

00:37:33Those are my initials, aren't they?

00:37:36He called them when I was just a little girl.

00:37:40Don't you remember any of it?

00:37:43It's all so vague.

00:37:45It all comes back to me in little bits and pieces.

00:37:48I try to fit them together and they fade away.

00:37:54I was ill in the sanitarium in Switzerland for a long time.

00:38:01My memory always seems to start in the sanitarium.

00:38:06Before that, it's like a thick mist.

00:38:10What does it all mean?

00:38:12What does it all mean to you in Switzerland?

00:38:13These are questions for your husband to answer Mrs. Tierney, not me.

00:38:17I wish I could help you, but I can't.

00:38:20It would have been better if you had never left Switzerland.

00:38:23You should never have come to this house.

00:38:27There's something evil here.

00:38:30And bad for Philip.

00:38:34He wasn't like this in Switzerland.

00:38:38What is there about this house that makes him...

00:38:43like his?

00:38:45Possibly only Philip knows.

00:38:48I urge you for your own safety to leave this house at once.

00:38:52Take my car if you like, but get away from here.

00:38:55Now.

00:39:30Philip.

00:39:37Tell me the truth, Philip.

00:39:40Why did you bring me to this house?

00:39:42For your own good.

00:39:49You knew I'd been here before.

00:39:52Yes.

00:39:53I knew.

00:39:56We lived here as children.

00:39:58I remembered that last night after we'd been here a little while.

00:40:02It was all so hazy.

00:40:03I couldn't quite make out the face...

00:40:07of the boy who carved our initials on the tree.

00:40:11I was in love with you then.

00:40:15That must be why I fell in love with you so quickly in Switzerland.

00:40:20I told Dr. Farrell we had a whirlwind romance.

00:40:25It wasn't really.

00:40:28I'd been in love with you for years and years.

00:40:34I love you, Sheila.

00:40:40Do you?

00:40:41I love you very, very much.

00:40:47Then why did you bring me to this place?

00:40:49To this horrible, evil house?

00:40:52So you would get over the nightmares.

00:40:53They were destroying you, Sheila.

00:40:55In no time they'd have you back in the sanitarium.

00:40:57Sanitarium?

00:40:59I was sent there because of my lungs.

00:41:03Wasn't I, Philip?

00:41:04No, darling.

00:41:07You were trying to tell me that...

00:41:09I was sent away to Switzerland because I was...

00:41:13insane.

00:41:14Sheila, you'd had a nervous breakdown.

00:41:16A nervous breakdown?

00:41:17I was seven years old.

00:41:19A child of seven doesn't have a nervous breakdown.

00:41:22I was insane, wasn't I?

00:41:24Sheila, there's nothing wrong with you now except those nightmares.

00:41:26I brought you here to regain your health.

00:41:29There's only one way to cure you.

00:41:31No, Philip.

00:41:32You must go up in that attic.

00:41:34I can't, I can't.

00:41:36There's something waiting for me up there.

00:41:38If I climb those stairs, I'll die. I know that.

00:41:41Darling, it's all in your imagination.

00:41:43I'll be with you every step of the way.

00:41:46Please, you must do this.

00:41:47Don't ask me to do that, Philip. I can't.

00:41:51I won't.

00:42:09You're not.

00:42:10You're a lawyer.

00:42:14You mean somebody else?

00:42:14You're a lawyer.

00:42:15Yes, you're a lawyer.

00:42:15You're a lawyer.

00:42:15You can go to your child.

00:42:16You're a lawyer.

00:42:16You're a liar.

00:42:35Matthew Tierney, died November 4th.

00:42:461939, born to Matthew and Bliss Tierney, son Lawrence, died November 4th, 1939, born a daughter, Lydia, died January 18th,

00:43:081920, born a son, Samuel, died November 4th.

00:43:161939, born to Samuel and Anne Tierney, son Philip, Philip, the last of the mad Tierneys.

00:43:40Oh, Jonah, I was just looking at the family Bible.

00:43:47It belonged to my husband's grandfather, didn't it?

00:43:51Did you know him?

00:43:52I knowed him. I knowed him all.

00:43:58Matthew Tierney had two sons and a daughter.

00:44:02They's all dead now.

00:44:05I can see that.

00:44:08Jonah, it says that Matthew and his sons, Lawrence and Samuel, all died on the same day.

00:44:15November 4th, 1939, at midnight.

00:44:21What happened, Jonah?

00:44:24Was there an accident, all of them dying at once?

00:44:27The strain died out, all except him.

00:44:33Philip, but what caused it?

00:44:36He, he, he's seen death coming for him.

00:44:41Well, he was 84 and, and it was his time.

00:44:46Matthew was, Matthew died of old age, but, but, Lawrence and, and Philip's father, they were both young men.

00:44:55He's seen what he had to do.

00:44:58The curse of the Tierneys was on him, and he could see it.

00:45:02He brought them into this world, and, and he took them out again before he died.

00:45:09You mean, the old man?

00:45:13His two sons?

00:45:15He, he, he watched for it all the time they was growing up.

00:45:20He looked for it to show up, and, and it did, like in all the Tierneys.

00:45:24They, they, they was tainted.

00:45:27He knowed he had to wipe it out before, before he was taken.

00:45:32There was only one way.

00:45:35Blood.

00:45:37There was blood all over everything.

00:45:40The, the, the place run with the blood of the mad Tierneys.

00:45:47I, I took the axe out myself and buried it.

00:45:52Horrible.

00:45:55He'd done what he had to do.

00:45:57Then he laid down and died himself.

00:46:00But he missed one.

00:46:03Philip.

00:46:04Yeah.

00:46:06He was away, up north.

00:46:09That's what saved him.

00:46:11And he's the last.

00:46:13He's come back because he knows he's got it too.

00:46:17He's mocked, like all the others.

00:46:24I don't believe it.

00:46:27I don't believe it.

00:46:32Go away, miss.

00:46:33Go away before it's too late.

00:46:35Ain't nothin' you can do for him.

00:46:38I seen it in him just the same as in all the others.

00:46:43Yeah.

00:46:55Watch out! Watch out!

00:46:56Go away.

00:47:04Are you all right, Doc?

00:47:22I've, uh, taken care of it.

00:47:24I won't put up with carelessness.

00:47:26You know that.

00:47:26I know, I know.

00:47:28Mrs. Tierney might have been killed.

00:47:30Now, look, you've been around here for a long time,

00:47:32and if you want to keep your home,

00:47:33you see that nothing goes wrong from now on.

00:47:35Do you understand?

00:47:45Philip.

00:47:47Philip.

00:47:48Get away from me.

00:47:49You're going to listen to me for once.

00:47:50I don't know what you're up to or why you ever came back here,

00:47:53but I can tell you this.

00:47:54You're only going to make matters worse for yourself.

00:47:56And maybe that's the way you like it.

00:47:58And tell me, why do you insist on pulling your wife down with you?

00:48:02How much more do you think she can stand?

00:48:03You've nearly driven her out of her mind now.

00:48:06Or is that what you're trying to do, Philip?

00:48:08What do you think I'm trying to do?

00:48:09Take her away from here at once if you've got any sense left.

00:48:13Why are you so concerned about Sheila?

00:48:14Because if she stays in this house another night,

00:48:16she'll be a raving maniac.

00:48:19I'll drive her to town myself.

00:48:20Sheila stays here with me.

00:48:22Why?

00:48:23Because she has nightmares, Mark. Didn't she tell you that?

00:48:25She was going to a psychiatrist in Switzerland to find out what caused them.

00:48:29The doctor couldn't help her, but I can.

00:48:30I know exactly what to do.

00:48:33And when she's better, everything's going to be all right again.

00:48:37For her, for me, and for all the Tierneys, dead or alive.

00:48:43You'd hate that, wouldn't you, Mark?

00:48:46You've always hated the Tierneys.

00:48:49You're insane.

00:48:51You're really out of your mind.

00:49:08Who is it?

00:49:09It's Mark. I brought you some dinner.

00:49:28You must eat something.

00:49:30I can't. Where is my...

00:49:32Where is he?

00:49:34He went away about an hour ago as soon as it was dark.

00:49:37You should eat something.

00:49:45He tried to kill me.

00:49:49It could have been an accident.

00:49:51I told you how old and rotten the house was.

00:49:54The chandelier probably just broke away.

00:49:56No, he was up there.

00:49:58If Jonah hadn't shouted at...

00:50:01Why?

00:50:03He said he loved me.

00:50:05I'm sure he does.

00:50:06But at other times, he's not responsible for what he does.

00:50:10You see, in a way, you're a threat to him.

00:50:14Philip is the last of the Tierneys, unless you have a child.

00:50:18And in his own tortured mind, he knows that this must never happen.

00:50:23Let me explain.

00:50:26With each generation, the wild strain in the Tierneys becomes not less, but more pronounced.

00:50:33Do you understand?

00:50:34Why did he marry me?

00:50:36Why doesn't he leave me?

00:50:38He loves you.

00:50:40You're his one hold on sanity, and at the same time, the one thing that's driving him to do what

00:50:47his grandfather did.

00:50:50I know.

00:50:52Jonah told me.

00:50:55I didn't want to believe it.

00:50:57I'm afraid it's true.

00:50:59You see, Sheila...

00:51:01Philip is my cousin.

00:51:05Yes.

00:51:06My mother was Lydia Tierney.

00:51:08She died in childbirth in 1925.

00:51:10I grew up here with Philip until he went up north to school.

00:51:14When the old man...

00:51:16Why didn't he...

00:51:17You mean, why didn't grandfather kill me too?

00:51:21Oh, I don't know.

00:51:23I suppose it's...

00:51:24It's because I really wasn't like a Tierney.

00:51:27I was a Snill.

00:51:29When I was growing up...

00:51:31I didn't understand it at the time.

00:51:33Grandfather Tierney was very hard on me.

00:51:36Almost cruel.

00:51:37He must have decided...

00:51:40I had escaped the curse of his line.

00:51:43He knew he was mad.

00:51:45I think he did.

00:51:46It came in spells.

00:51:47He used to lock himself away in his room for days at a time.

00:51:54What will become of Philip?

00:51:56I don't know.

00:51:58I'm more concerned with what will become of you.

00:52:02You must leave here as soon as it's daylight.

00:52:05I take you away tonight.

00:52:06But my car's been disabled too.

00:52:10Couldn't we walk?

00:52:11No.

00:52:12It's 15 miles and along those winding roads...

00:52:15We'd probably lose our way or wind up in the marshes.

00:52:18But that's better than staying here.

00:52:20No.

00:52:22He's outside somewhere watching the house.

00:52:25You'll be safer here.

00:52:27Besides, Jono and I are going to take turns standing watch outside your door.

00:52:31You may not get much sleep.

00:52:34But I can promise you nothing will happen to you.

00:52:42Are you sure you don't want something to eat?

00:52:46Good night.

00:52:49Good night.

00:53:27Good night.

00:53:30Good night.

00:53:31Good night.

00:53:54Who is it?

00:53:55Sheila, it's Mark.

00:53:57Are you all right?

00:53:59Yes.

00:54:18Don't come any farther.

00:54:20His neck's broken.

00:54:22I heard him scream.

00:54:23Yes, he was.

00:54:25He fell over the railing up there.

00:54:28He must have been dead before he hit the bottom.

00:54:32Poor Jonah.

00:54:33You said the house was dangerous.

00:54:38What happened?

00:54:40The railing gave way?

00:54:41No, it didn't.

00:54:44What was he doing prowling around in the dark?

00:54:47That's his job.

00:54:48He's the caretaker.

00:54:55Here.

00:54:56Put this on.

00:54:58You think we ought to move him?

00:55:00It's your house.

00:55:02I hate to leave him lying there.

00:55:06I suppose we'll have to call the police.

00:55:07Why?

00:55:08It was an accident.

00:55:11Wasn't it?

00:55:12That's not for us to say.

00:55:14Are you going to get in touch with him?

00:55:16I understand your car broke down.

00:55:17I thought you might fix it.

00:55:19I can try.

00:55:21Who's going to drive?

00:55:23She can't.

00:55:25I was merely suggesting that she might like to drive into town with me.

00:55:30This has been an awful shock for her.

00:55:35I'll go.

00:55:36I'll go.

00:55:38I'll go.

00:55:42I'll go.

00:55:51I'll go.

00:55:52I'll go.

00:55:53I'll go.

00:55:54I'll go.

00:55:55I'll go.

00:55:56I'll go.

00:55:57I'll go.

00:55:58I'll go.

00:56:00I'll go.

00:56:01I'll go.

00:56:27How long before the police will get here?

00:56:30It won't be tonight.

00:56:31He won't go to the police.

00:56:33He'll just keep on going.

00:56:34There's nothing else he can do.

00:56:37It's better that it's happened this way, my dear.

00:56:41You'll forget in time.

00:57:11It's better that it's not working.

00:57:15I won't let you.

00:57:24You'll be right back.

00:58:11Mark, what is it?

00:58:13I don't know.

00:58:15I'll go down and see.

00:58:17You wait here.

00:58:42Where's Sheila?

00:58:46What are you doing back here?

00:58:48I took a wrong turn.

00:58:49I must have gotten lost.

00:58:51Where's Jonah?

00:58:52I don't know.

00:58:52I heard a noise, came down to investigate.

00:58:55His body's gone.

00:58:57That's strange.

00:58:58Yes, isn't it?

00:58:59But that man gets up and walks away.

00:59:03Maybe he wasn't dead.

00:59:04That's ridiculous.

00:59:06His neck was broken.

00:59:07You saw him.

00:59:08I didn't examine him.

00:59:09You did.

00:59:11Well, don't you think we ought to go look for the body?

00:59:15No.

00:59:16I think you should do what you started out to do.

00:59:18Go for the police.

00:59:19I'd only get lost again.

00:59:20I don't know the roads around here.

00:59:22Somebody's got to go.

00:59:23How about you?

00:59:24Why, I can't.

00:59:25My car's broken, Leon.

00:59:27I'll fix it.

00:59:28Besides, I don't want to leave Sheila here alone.

00:59:30She won't be alone, Mark.

00:59:32I'll be with her.

00:59:36You wait here a minute.

00:59:37I'll be right back.

00:59:53Were you listening?

00:59:54Yes.

00:59:55He's hidden Jonah's body, probably in the cellar.

00:59:57We've got to get word of the police.

00:59:58He won't go, and he won't let me take you with me.

01:00:01Well, couldn't we?

01:00:02No, he won't give us that much time.

01:00:03Have you still got his gun?

01:00:04Yes.

01:00:05All right, now, listen carefully.

01:00:06There's a farmhouse about five miles from here.

01:00:08I can go there and get back in about 20 minutes.

01:00:11He'll expect me to be gone for hours.

01:00:13Now, when I leave this room, you lock the door.

01:00:16Use the gun if you have to.

01:00:18If you'd only wait till morning.

01:00:19No, this is what he wants us to do.

01:00:21If we stay in this house tonight, he'll finish his horrible job.

01:00:24Our only chance is to act faster than he does.

01:00:28Do you think you can do it?

01:00:29I'll try.

01:00:30Go ahead.

01:00:30You guard the fire escape with a gun,

01:00:32and I think you can hold him off until I get back.

01:00:34Good luck.

01:00:36Good luck.

01:00:53Good luck.

01:00:55Good luck.

01:00:56Good luck.

01:00:57Good luck.

01:01:01Good luck.

01:01:08Sheela, unlock the door. I have to talk to you.

01:01:16I only want to help you, darling.

01:01:19Everything will be all right.

01:01:21I love you, Sheila.

01:01:24I'm going to take you away.

01:01:26You've got to trust me.

01:01:48I love you, Sheila.

01:01:59I love you.

01:02:01You've got to trust me.

01:02:29All things come to an end.

01:02:34Pull the trigger, Sheila, and it'll be the end of the Tierneys.

01:02:39Don't make me do it, Philip.

01:02:41I don't want to.

01:02:42Pull the trigger, Sheila.

01:02:44You can go downstairs and write the final entry in the family bible.

01:02:47Philip Tierney died here and now, the last of the mad Tierneys.

01:02:52I can't.

01:02:56Do whatever you want to, Philip.

01:02:58I don't care.

01:03:02If I'm your enemy, if that's what your mind tells you, then go ahead and do it.

01:03:12You could have killed me.

01:03:15Why didn't you?

01:03:16I don't know.

01:03:21Yes, I do know.

01:03:23Because I love you.

01:03:25So many years ago, long before you carved our initials of that tree.

01:03:30I can't remember any further back.

01:03:33I loved you.

01:03:35When we met in Switzerland, I didn't know it, but it was the same love.

01:03:40That's why I married you, Philip.

01:03:43That's why I could never hurt you.

01:03:47I don't want to hurt you either.

01:03:50But you feel you must.

01:03:52Is that it, Philip?

01:03:54Let me help you.

01:03:57Don't look away.

01:03:59I want to help you.

01:04:02Everything's going to be all right now.

01:04:06Let me help you.

01:04:07Tell me how.

01:04:10Will you do anything I ask?

01:04:12Anything?

01:04:13Anything?

01:04:14What do you want me to do?

01:04:16Come with me, right now.

01:04:19All right.

01:04:20Here.

01:04:22Take this.

01:04:25Please, I want you to have it.

01:04:47I'm not in there.

01:04:48Sheila.

01:04:48I'm not in there.

01:04:49You must.

01:04:50I can't.

01:04:51I can't.

01:04:51You must.

01:04:51There's no way.

01:04:52Now listen to me.

01:04:54There's nothing out there to be afraid of.

01:04:56It's just an attic.

01:04:58Full of dust and cobwebs.

01:05:00When you were a little girl, it was your favorite place to play in rainy days.

01:05:04You remember.

01:05:06This trunk full of old clothes.

01:05:09He used to dress up in them.

01:05:11Remember, darling?

01:05:12No.

01:05:13It'll all come back to you.

01:05:14Believe me.

01:05:15It will.

01:05:16It'll all come back to you.

01:05:18Everything.

01:05:19Don't open the door.

01:05:20I can't even look.

01:05:22If you want to kill me, kill me.

01:05:23Yeah, but not torture me.

01:05:25Sheila!

01:05:38Girls!

01:05:40Girls!

01:05:41Girls!

01:05:43Girls!

01:05:53Girls!

01:06:00Go!

01:06:12The axe! He's using the axe! Stop him!

01:06:19The blood! The blood of me! It's everywhere!

01:06:27It's blood!

01:06:31You're all dead!

01:06:34It wasn't a dream.

01:06:58It really happened, and I saw it.

01:07:05That's why you brought me back here, wasn't it, Philip?

01:07:09Yes, dear.

01:07:12I tried to run away, but I couldn't. It was buried inside my mind. I didn't remember. I couldn't remember.

01:07:24I would have been insane.

01:07:31I was insane in that sanitarium, wasn't I?

01:07:35No.

01:07:37You saw the kind of horror no child should see. Your mind locked it away, so you'd never see it

01:07:46again.

01:07:48You knew it was there. And you had to dig it out.

01:07:55I searched for years. I found you in Lausanne. But the secret was hidden in your subconscious.

01:08:05Only you and the person who used the axe knew what really happened up here. I had to dig it

01:08:10out.

01:08:11You caused the dreams to start. You took me to Dr. Farrell. And then, when nothing else worked, you brought

01:08:21me here.

01:08:26You want to know what happened that night, Philip? I remember now.

01:08:34We lived in a little house by a stream. My father and I.

01:08:42He was a caretaker. You were one of the family.

01:08:47I remember. I remember.

01:08:51They used to let me play up here on rainy days.

01:08:58It rained that day.

01:09:02I forgot my doll.

01:09:05And I woke up late at night and crept back in the house to get it.

01:09:10I came up here.

01:09:14And then I heard someone coming up the stairs.

01:09:18I hid under this bed.

01:09:22And then I saw them.

01:09:25Your father.

01:09:28And your uncle Lawrence.

01:09:32And then he killed them.

01:09:34Who did? Who was it?

01:09:35With the axe.

01:09:38The blood spurted clear across the room.

01:09:42It was all over me.

01:09:46It was all over me.

01:09:48Was it my grandfather?

01:09:50You must have seen who did it.

01:09:52Was it my grandfather?

01:09:56No.

01:09:58It was Jonah.

01:10:05That's the only way it could have happened.

01:10:08Why?

01:10:12They didn't tell me much about it.

01:10:15Jonah married my Aunt Lydia.

01:10:17Lydia?

01:10:18She was Mark's mother.

01:10:20Yes.

01:10:22Jonah was Mark's father.

01:10:26They tell me Lydia was a headstrong girl.

01:10:30Rebellious.

01:10:32My grandfather never had much time for anyone but his sons.

01:10:37Lydia, in order to get attention, threw herself at the caretaker.

01:10:41A stable hand named Jonah Snell.

01:10:46When my grandfather found out what happened, he made them get married to give the child a name.

01:10:52Lydia died giving birth to Mark.

01:10:55My grandfather brought them into the house.

01:10:58He raised Mark.

01:11:01But beyond that, he wouldn't have anything to do with them.

01:11:05Jonah must have brooded and plotted for years.

01:11:08He knew he couldn't have the family name and fortune for himself.

01:11:11But he thought he could get them for his son.

01:11:13He must have been insane.

01:11:15He wasn't then, he was later.

01:11:18He also knew that when my grandfather died, the estate would pass to Lawrence and then to Samuel, my father.

01:11:24After that, to the next oldest relative.

01:11:27Mark is three years older than I am.

01:11:31The night my grandfather died, Jonah saw his chance.

01:11:35I don't know how he lured them up here or why he chose this attic.

01:11:39But he slaughtered them.

01:11:41He put the axe in a dead man's hand.

01:11:45And so Mark inherited everything.

01:11:47The plantation, the money, the estate.

01:11:52That's when I stopped using the name of tyranny.

01:11:57I swore that I'd never use that name again.

01:12:01Until people could stop whispering it behind closed doors.

01:12:10Listen.

01:12:13Mark.

01:12:14What did you do with the gun?

01:12:16I don't know.

01:12:18I lost it.

01:12:20Get over there.

01:12:28Were you successful, Philip?

01:12:32Yes, I'm sure that it did.

01:12:34Now the question is, what are we going to do about it?

01:12:37The truth has to come out, Mark.

01:12:40Grandfather's name has been stained for 17 years.

01:12:43You're going to clean it up.

01:12:44They're both dead.

01:12:46What difference does it make?

01:12:47None to you.

01:12:48You're a snell.

01:12:50Yes, you never let us forget it, did you?

01:12:53We were poor white trash and we dared like our name with the tyrannies.

01:12:57The pure aristocratic tyrannies.

01:12:59If you look under the surface, you'll find it there as common as the rest of us.

01:13:03Have you forgotten Lydia?

01:13:06She liked to play on the stables with a higher job.

01:13:09She was your mother, Mark.

01:13:12Now look, I'm willing to believe you were too young to know what Jonah was going to do.

01:13:17If you renounce all claims to the estate and go away, we'll call it even.

01:13:20Very generous of you.

01:13:22Always the fine tyranny gesture.

01:13:25I hate your nobility.

01:13:29It isn't that, Mark.

01:13:31It's just that I'm tired of hatred and revenge.

01:13:35I want only what's mine.

01:13:38But if you refuse, I'll fight you in every court in the land and I'll win.

01:13:43Yes, I knew what he was going to do when he went there that night, but I didn't try to

01:13:46stop it.

01:13:47I wanted it just like he did.

01:13:49Well, he got it for me and I'm going to keep it.

01:13:52If you want to fight, well, let's have it now.

01:13:54No!

01:14:44Don't shoot! Don't shoot!

01:14:47Don't shoot! Don't shoot!

01:15:12Don't shoot! Don't shoot!

01:15:13Come on, now.

01:15:28Philip, where are we going?

01:15:30Anywhere.

01:15:31It's got to take a little time to clean things up here.

01:15:34We can go to Lausanne if you wanted to.

01:15:38They sent me there, didn't they?

01:15:40Yes.

01:15:42Even that madman Jonah couldn't bring himself to murder a child.

01:15:47He knew that your mind had blocked out what it had seen.

01:15:50So he set up a trust fund for you, set you away.

01:15:54I forgot about you.

01:15:58Philip, why did Mark throw Jonah over the railing?

01:16:02The old man must have brooded a long time over what he'd done.

01:16:06He wanted to stop any more killings, I'm sure.

01:16:09He even warned you about the chandelier.

01:16:13Mark was afraid he was going to confess, so he killed him.

01:16:16Come on.

01:16:21We left the old house.

01:16:23The old house.

01:16:24The old house is silent and forbidden.

01:16:26The place of horror and death.

01:16:29It was truly haunted.

01:16:32No one would ever live there again.

01:16:35It was a house of madness.

01:16:37Yes.

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