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The Strange House (Das schaurige Haus)

Francaise title: Notre maison hantée
Spain title: La casa del miedo
Greek title: Το Παράξενο Σπίτι
Russian title: Страшный дом
Original title: Das schaurige Haus

Alternative titles:
The Scary House | Paredes siniestras

Youth adventure – Austria, Germany
Production year: 2019
Movie length: 99 minutes

Director: Daniel Prochaska
Writer: Marcel Kawentel, Timo Lombeck, Martina Wilder
Cinematograph: Matthias Pötsch
Music: Karwan Marouf

Movie description:

Hendrik is sixteen, a big city kid, and vexed to learn that his mother is moving with him and his little brother Eddi to a village in the south of Austria. To make matters worse, the locals shun the new rustic family home. They say it has been haunted ever since a mother poisoned her two sons in there many decades ago. When a sleepwalking Eddi starts carving strange symbols into the walls, Hendrik and his friends set off on a quest to lift the secret of the spooky house.

It’s a cultural shock, when Hendrik (16) moves with his mother and brother Eddi (8) from Germany to a small village in Carinthia. The locals speak an incomprehensible dialect and there seems to be something wrong with the house as well. Eddi begins to sleepwalk, Hendrik is haunted by creepy nightmares and their mother despairs more and more. After initial difficulties Hendrik makes friends with nerdy Fritz and brisk Ida. Together they track down the secret of the eerie house.

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