Ghosthouse

Ghosthouse is a 1988 Italian horror film written and directed by Umberto Lenzi. It co-starred Lara Wendel and Donald O'Brien. The plot focuses on a deserted house where the visions of a ghostly girl and her haunted doll wreak havoc on those who enter it. Plot In 1967, a man named Sam Baker finds his young daughter, Henrietta, hiding in the basement after killing her cat with a pair of scissors. More angry than surprised, he locks his daughter up in the basement, telling her that she has to be punished for what she did. Sam later tells his wife that he thinks their daughter is under a spell or a curse, a theory that Henrietta's mother adamantly rejects. Afterward, Sam and his wife are brutally murdered by an unseen killer. While her parents are being murdered upstairs, Henrietta cries in the basement. She finds comfort in holding a strange clown doll, which plays eerie lullaby music. Twenty years later, an amateur radio operator named Paul Rogers picks up a signal of two people screaming, presumably before being attacked. Paul somehow manages to track down where the screaming occurred and travels there with his girlfriend, Martha. The young couple arrives at the place where the screams took place, the same house where the Baker family used to live. There, they are harshly greeted by a hostile caretaker named Valkos, who tries to scare them away and accuses them of snooping around. Martha tells Paul that she does want to get out of there because the house gives her a bad feeling and that it has an evil aura. The young couple breaks into the house to come across a group of four young intruders: three siblings, Jim, Tina, and Mark Dalen, and Mark’s girlfriend, Susan. Jim owns a radio, and his voice sounds exactly like the person that Paul heard screaming the night before through his own radio. Paul, who conveniently recorded those screamings on tape, allows Jim to listen to the recordings, and though the latter admits that the voice in that tape sounds exactly like his, he denies being that person.