The House That Screamed (1969)

Interesting facts

The House That Screamed, also released as The Finishing School, is a 1969 Spanish gothic slasher film written and directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, and starring Lilli Palmer, Cristina Galbó, John Moulder-Brown, and Mary Maude. It follows Señora Fourneau, the strict headmistress of a nineteenth-century French boarding school for girls where the students begin to disappear under unusual circumstances.

Production

La residencia was director Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's first horror film and produced by Javier Armet through his company Anabel Films. The screenplay is based on a short story by Juan Tébar. Serrador wrote the screenplay under the name "Luis Penafiel."

The film was created as a commercial film with the express purpose of breaking into the international market, and was the first Spanish film produced with English dialogue. Filming took place in Comillas, Cantabria, Spain. Because the film was made up of both English and Spanish actors, the film was shot with the actors performing in both English and Spanish languages.

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