#malpertuis

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Mathieu Carrière in Malpertuis (aka The Legend of Doom House), 1971 Director: Harry Kümel

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Watching the movie of my favorite book this year!

Or will be it’s with a watch party in my book club.

Today will be a good day.

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La vie est atteinte de torticolis sempiternel, ce qui l’empêche de regarder en arrière. Faisons comme elle, le passé appartient à la mort, qui est jalouse de son bien.

Jean Ray, Malpertuis

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Susan Hampshire in Malpertuis / The Legend of Doom House (1971), dir. by Harry Kümel Belgian. 

Belgian fantasy horror film based on the 1943 eponymous novel

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Have you read...

Malpertuis by Jean Ray

Yes, I liked it

Yes, I had a neutral or complicated opinion

Yes, I didn't like it

No, but I want to

No, I have a neutral or complicated opinion

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Malpertuis is a puzzle box of nested narratives wrested from a set of manuscripts stolen from a monastery. A bizarre collection of distrustful relatives has gathered together in the ancient stone mansion of a sea-trading dynasty for the impending death of the occult scientist, Uncle Cassave, and the reading of his will. Forced to dwell together for the remainder of their lives within the stifling walls of Malpertuis for the sake of a cursed inheritance, their banal existence gradually gives way to love affairs and secret plots, as the building slowly exposes a malevolence that eventually leads to a series of ghastly deaths. The eccentric personalities it houses—which include an obsessive taxidermist, a hypochondriac, a trio of vengeful sisters and a former paint store manager who has gone mad—begin to shed like skins to reveal yet another hidden story buried in the novel’s structure, one that turns the haunted-house tradition on its head and culminates in an apocalyptic denouement.

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Malpertuis - Harry Kümel (1971)

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Susan Hampshire’s makeup in Malpertuis (1971)

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Malpertuis (1971)