La residencia (1969)

Country of Origin: Spain
Year of Production: 1969
Running Times: 99 mins
Length:
Format: 35mm/70mm (blow-up)/Franscope
Colour Format: Eastmancolor
Ratio: 2.20:1 (70mm prints)/ 2.35:1
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Anabel Films S.A.
Produced by: Arturo González
Assistant Producer: Jose M. Maldonado
Production Manager: Manuel Pérez

SCRIPT
Script: Luis Peñafiel (real name: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador)
Story: Juan Tébar

DIRECTION
Directed by: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador
Assistant Director: Mahnahén Velasco
Second Assistant Director: Jaime Villate

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Manuel Berenguer
Second Camera Operator: Salvador Gil
Assistant Camera: Luis Pena
Focus Puller: Juan Antonio Aguilar
Stills: Antonio Luengo

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editors: Mercedes Alonso, Reginald Mills
Assistant Editors: María Luisa Hernández, María Dolores Laguna

MUSIC
Music: Waldo de los Ríos
Conductor: Waldo de los Ríos

SOUND
Sound Engineer: Enrique Molinero
Sound Effects: Luis Castro

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: John Beaton, Don Deacon, Wilfred Thompson

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Víctor María Cortezo, Ramiro Gómez
Assistant Production Designer: Rafael Pérez Murcia
Art Director: Ramiro Gómez
Set Decorator: Víctor María Cortezo
Assistant Set Decorator: Rafael Ablanque

OTHER CREW
Script Supervisor: Margarita Pardo
Production Secretary: Marisol Carnicero

LOCATIONS
Locations: Comillas, Santander, Cantabria, Spain

CAST
Lilli Palmer (Mme. Fourneau)
Cristina Galbó (Theresa)
John Moulder-Brown (Luis)
Mary Maude (Irene)
Cándida Losada (Mlle. Desprez)
Tomás Blanco (M. Baldie)
Pauline Challoner (Catalina)
María Elena Arpón
Juana Azorín (Lucia)
Gloria Blanco (Regina)
Frank Braña
Sofía Casares (Margarita)
Clovis Dave (Enrique)
Mari Carmen Duque (Julia)
María Gustafson (Ingrid)
Teresa Hurtado (Andree)
Víctor Israel (Brechard)
Maribel Martín (Isabelle)
Elisa Méndez (María)
Paloma Pagés (Cecilia)
Conchita Paredes (Susana)
Ana María Pol (Claudia)
Blanca Sendino (cook)
María José Valero (Elena)

PLOT SUMMARY

At the girls' school run by Lilli Palmer, students are disappearing, possibly murdered. But who's behind it all?

AVAILABILITY

Brazil
Video Distributors: CVL Vídeo

Canada
Video Distributors: Astral Films

Spain
Theatrical Distributors: J.F. Films de Distribución S.A./Regia-Arturo González Rodríguez
DVD Distributors: Divisa Home Video

USA
Theatrical Distributors: AIP

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Argentina
Rating: 16

Sweden
Rating: 15

USA
Rating: GP

TIMELINE

1971
January
1: Sweden – theatrical release

July
21: USA – theatrical release

2003
March
10: Argentina – shown at the Mar del Plata Film Festival

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

The Boarding School - English language title
The Finishing School - US title
Fruktans skrik – Swedish title
The House That Screamed - US title
Internato de Raparigas – Portuguese title
Internato Derradeiro – Brazilian title
Fli orrori del liceo femminile – Italian title
La residence - French title

LINKS

FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Mad Ron's Prevues from Hell (1987)

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Monthly Film Bulletin no.459 (April 1972) (UK)
credits, synopsis, review

KEYWORDS

lesbianism, mental illness, mutilation, sadism, schools, serial killers, sex, splatter, teenagers

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008