House of Evil
The relatives of a recently dead man meet at his creepy castle for the reading of his will. They also meet a sinister piano player who turns out to also be a toy-maker, and his toys seem to have murderous intentions of their own.
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"Julissa plays Lucy Durant, a young woman who travels with her fiancee Charles Beasler (Andres Garcia) to visit ancient relative Matthias Morteval (Boris Karloff), in what is a pretty standard period horror. It involves a reading of the will, the typical greedy heirs, and people regularly getting bumped off. The killings are somewhat amusing, because the manufacture of death-dispensing "toys" has been a family pastime for ages. This was one of four Mexican-American horror films headlined by Karloff that represented the legendary genre actors' last work in movies. It's obvio..."
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Boris Karloff was paid $100,000 to appear in this film.
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The relatives of a recently dead man meet at his creepy castle for the reading of his will. They also meet a sinister piano player who turns out to also be a toy-maker, and his toys seem to have murderous intentions of their own.