Inn of the Damned (1975)

At an isolated inn in Gippsland, Victoria (Australia), elderly Austrian owners Caroline (Dame Judith Anderson) and Lazar Straulle (Joseph Fürst) are killing off anyone who stays with them in retribution for the abduction and murder of their two children.

Local man, Biscayne (Robert Quilter), is also wanted for murder and is being pursued by a highly resourceful American bounty hunter called Alex Cord (Paul Melford).

John Meillon, as a petty thief, makes the most of his kindly, comic part but disappears from the film too soon.

Young Class of ’74 star Carla Hoogeveen appears nude in an unrelated lesbian scene, which seems to have been added more for titillation than any real story development.

With a budget of AUD $417,000, Inn of the Damned was the most expensive Australian film ever made at that time. Essentially a gothic horror movie set in 1890s Australia – complete with horse chases, stagecoaches and spurs aplenty – it’s still a bona fide thriller that delivers well-timed shocks and some ghastly make-up effects.

Although set in Gippsland, Victoria, the movie was actually filmed on location around Camden and Bringelly in New South Wales.

Caroline Straulle
Dame Judith Anderson
Cal Kincaid
Alex Cord
Paul Melford
Michael Craig
Lazar Straulle
Joseph Fürst
Trooper Moore
Tony Bonner
George Parr
John Meillon
Martin Cummings
John Morris
Biscayne
Robert Quilter
Mrs Millington
Diana Dangerfield
Beverley
Carla Hoogeveen
Sgt Malone
Don Barkham
The Colonel
John Nash
Alfred
Phillip Avalon
Andrew Millington
Graham Corry
Squire Grimstead
Gordon Glenwright
Undertaker
Nat Levison
Arnold
Louis Wishart
Mad Mick Marriott
George Pollack
Peaches
Linda Brown
Mrs Bennett
Hilary Bamberger
Bristow
James Moss
Harry
Dave Proudman
Tom 
Wi Kuki Kaa
Dr Karsten
Roy Harries-Jones
Hogg
Reg Midway
Housekeeper
Carmel Cullen
Heidi Straulle
Melissa Chappell
Hans Straulle
Terry Bourke Jr.

Director
Terry Bourke

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