House of the Living Dead (Skaduwees Oor Brugplaas, or Shadows over Bridge Farm), also known as Doctor Maniac, is a 1974 science-fiction horror film directed by Ray Austin and starring Mark Burns, Shirley Anne Field and David Oxley.

Michael runs the house while Breck spends his time alone in his room, deformed and insane, conducting experiments to try to prove the soul is an organic object able to live outside the human body.

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "First, there is the laboratory with its flasks, coloured fluids, and pop-eyed scientist indicating Doctor Maniac's probable descent from Baron Frankenstein; another set of references, such as the decaying manor, the hereditary madness of the Bratling heirs, and the hints of incest suggest that this is really a House of Usher, or at any rate, closer to Poe than to Ms. Shelley.

That screenwriter De V Marais and director Austin were conscious of their film's innumerable allusions and derivations seems unlikely given the vastly inefficient manner in which they have assembled this stale Gothic smorgasbord.

However, with the aid of some execrable performances, the film does rise to a very amusing climax with Collins, the middle-aged hero, racing to the rescue on a white steed while Breck rambles on about 'soular' intercourse and how he doesn't enjoy being called a loony.