The House of Dies Drear (1984)

8.0/10 • 116 min • Fantasy Drama Crime TV Movie

Overview

A young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio and discover that during the Civil War it was used by a Dutch immigrant to smuggle runaway slaves to freedom. Soon they begin to suspect that the ghosts of slaves who passed through there are haunting the house.

Cast

Howard Rollins

Walter Small

Shavar Ross

Thomas Small

Gloria Foster

Sheila Small

Moses Gunn

River Lewis Darrow

Clarence Williams III

Mayhew Skinner

Joe Seneca

Pluto

Frances Foster

Great-Grandmother Jeffers

Hardee T. Lineham

Edgar Carr

Tichina Arnold

Pesty

Kadeem Hardison

Mac Darrow

Eugene Clark

River Ross Darrow

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