The Finishing School (The House That Screamed) (The Boarding School) (La Residencia)

The Finishing School (The House That Screamed) (The Boarding School) (La Residencia) (1970)

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This stylishly eerie Spanish production stars elegant Lili Palmer as the severe headmistress of a French boarding school for young women, where the rigid constraints of 19th-century social conditioning have turned the place into a hothouse of barely contained sexual urges (leading to lots of gauzy… More

In Theaters
Jan 1, 1971 Wide
American International Pictures (AIP)

Critic Reviews

  • Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion

    Splendid study of gothic repression and women on the verge

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  • Greg S


    Murders at a boarding school for wayward, sexually repressed girls. Though set in France and Spanish in origin, it's very much in the Italian giallo style; slow moving but well made, with some very stylish touches. Giallo fanatics will want to bump that star rating up a notch or… More

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