House by the River 1950

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: Full of Victorian adornments, shadowy lighting and morbid moods, it is a desperate attempt to raise goose-flesh with a standard horror-psychological plot. Read more

Tom Charity, Time Out: It's a bleak, gloomy film, one in which the psychological undercurrents seem to be flooding over the banks, drowning any fleeting vestige of rationality in a perverse Teutonic romanticism. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: House by the River is a fair mystery which lacks sufficient plot twists and suspense. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Its 85 minutes stuffed with shadowy menace, odd magical-realisms (what is it with the jumping fish?), and effortless tension, House by the River is quintessential Lang. Read more