6.5. It's an excellent haunted house movie, but it loses points immediately by discussing all of the debauchery, drugs, cannibalism, etc but so little of that which Belasco and this house is known for is ever even shown. Maybe that adds to the mystery of it but really all it does is make the film tamer than it should really be. Still, wonderful atmosphere and build up adds to a great story.

One of the best movies about haunted houses, that Hammer style, that sobriety of means