The Legend of Hell House Blu-ray - Classic Horror Movie for Halloween Nights & Scary Movie Marathons

"The Legend of Hell House" is supremely subtle, character-driven haunted house story.The four principal actors in it - Roddy McDowall, Pamela Franklin, Clive Revill, and Gayle Hunnicutt - are the only people you see for much of the film's running time. There's two other characters in the first five minutes, but after that, it's just the excellent ensemble inside the house.It's very well-written, the screenplay being adapted by Richard Matheson from his novel with the simpler title of just "Hell House". The direction by John Hough is also solid, drawing you in to the characters so that you feel pretty invested in them by the film's climax. Hough also does some really interesting film shots too, my favorite being looking at a character coming into a room via the reflection of a silver teapot!I had this on videotape (from television back in the 1980's), and then on DVD. And now at last, on blu-ray.The blu-ray is a definite improvement over the DVD. It looks like they did a clean scan of the film, and didn't recycle the previous scan for the DVD, as sometimes happens to these older movies.The audio is remixed top 5.1 (It was initially mono). There's also an interview with the director, and film commentary by Pamela Franklin.It's definitely worth a look; the ending is quite hair-raising.