House of Dreams

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Existing outside the boundaries of reality, House of Dreams is a lost chapter of mid-century, avant garde horror from director Robert Berry. The story follows Lee (Berry), a frustrated author who is plagued by recurring nightmares centered around a haunted house. Shot on gritty 16mm film stock in Indiana and never legitimately distributed, House of Dreams is a sincere, abstract, and melancholy haunting that would feel right at home on a triple feature with Meshes of the Afternoon and Carnival of Souls.

directed by: Robert Berry
starring: Robert Berry, Pauline Elliott
1963 / 69 min / 1.37:1 / English DTS-HD MA 1.0

Additional info:

• Region Free Blu-ray
• Preserved from the only 35mm print in existence, courtesy of Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive
• Commentary with director Robert Berry, moderated by film programmer Jason Coffman
• Alternate score by Coffman
• Scrapbook photo gallery
• MIDNITE DREAM THEATRE (172 mins), a triple feature VHS mixtape with preservations of MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (1959 version, dir. Maya Deren & Alexandr Hackenschmied), HOUSE OF DREAMS, CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962, dir. Herk Harvey), and mid-century commercials and trailers
• Zine with an essay by Berry
• English SDH subtitles