The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre

1964

Action / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

7
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 908 908

Director

Joseph Stefano Photo
Joseph Stefano

Top cast

Tom Simcox Photo
Tom Simcox as Henry Mandore
Leonard Stone Photo
Leonard Stone as Benedict Sloane
Martin Landau Photo
Martin Landau as Nelson Orion
Judith Anderson Photo
Judith Anderson as Paulina
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741.56 MB
1280*960
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 20 min
Seeds 1
1.34 GB
1440*1080
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 20 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by boblipton 7 / 10

"I don't believe in ghosts, but I'm afraid of them"

Blind, incredibly wealthy Tom Simcox keeps getting phone calls from his mother. She has been dead for some time, but possessed of a fear of being entombed while still alive, had a phone installed in her crypt. Simcox's wife, Diane Baker, seeks out architect and skeptical ghost hunter Martin Landau to find out what is going on. Does this link to an earlier case of murder-by-ghost that turned out to be poisoning?It's a very well cast and run little spooky movie, originally intended as a pilot for a TV anthology series. Landau's intelligence and low-affect performance serve it well, and writer-director Joseph Stefano has a good arc of what starts out as atmosphere, and bursts into something more disquieting. With Judith Anderson and Nellie Burt.
Reviewed by Milk_Tray_Guy 7 / 10

Little known, but pretty enjoyable

Nice ghost story, directed by Joseph Stefano and starring Martin Landau as architect and paranormal investigator, Nelson Orion. He agrees to look into the case of a man apparently receiving phone calls from beyond the grave - but things soon take another turn. Tom Simcox plays the blind client, Diane Baker his wife, and the new housekeeper is Judith Anderson (the sinister Mrs Danvers in Alfred Hitchcock's version of Rebecca). The performances are good - especially from Landau and Anderson - and despite some of the effects looking a bit hokey today, it's pretty atmospheric with some great seafront and clifftop locations. This was originally intended as a pilot for a proposed TV series called The Haunted (the whole thing has a distinctly Dan Curtis feel to it). In the end the series wasn't picked up, so additional scenes were filmed and it was released as a standalone feature. Very enjoyable - should be better known. 7/10.
Reviewed by CammieinOz 7 / 10

Nothing really adds up ... yet, it's still a great little horror flick!

The synopsis for The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre differs from the actual movie storyline. OK, yes, the telephone rings from a connection to the crypt BUT as the story goes on, there's no relevance. Creepy housekeeper, played brilliantly by fellow Aussie actress Dame Judith Anderson (she was wonderful in Hitchcock's Rebecca) is a sinister, mysterious character. Diane Baker as Vivia is also very good as the frightened wife of a rich, blind man. There's obviously some hocus-pocus afoot, hence the entry of Martin Landau as Orion.This was originally filmed as a pilot for an anthology TV series which never got picked up because it was considered too dark for 1960s viewers. Extra footage was then added and it was aired as a TV movie.I give it a 7/10.
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