[3] The film's ensemble cast includes John Ericson, Ivor Francis, Judith Novgrod, Burr DeBenning, Charles Aidman, Bernard Fox, and Richard Gates, along with Elizabeth MacRae, Linda Gibboney, Leslie Paxton, and John King.

He is invited indoors from the rain by a mortician, who tells Talmudge that he acquires and embalms the bodies of people who experienced interesting and unique deaths.

She is shown seemingly alone at home in her kitchen, where she turns on a radio and hears a mysterious noise coming from elsewhere.

He convinces Julie, who is unaware that a camera is recording them, to remove her stockings so that he may perform a magic trick with them.

The third story concerns Detective Malcolm Toliver, said to be the best criminal investigator in the United States, and Inspector McDowal, the greatest in England.

After dismissing the plight of a homeless man, Cantwell enters an empty store, and is unable to open the doors that lead back outside.

The House of the Dead was filmed under the working title Five Faces of Terror, with the help of non-unionized broadcasting students from Oklahoma State University.

[4] Jim Hemphill of Filmmaker called the film "obscure but quite interesting", and wrote that it has "an impressive consistency of tone thanks to Miller's superb direction of her actors and her deft manipulation of the audience through sophisticated blocking and camera movement.

"[3] Brian Orndorf of Blu-ray.com referred to the film as "a strange assortment of half-realized chapters", writing that it "doesn't value character detail, only giving viewers the basics in temperament before moving on to the next piece of business.

"[6] However, he noted that "it's not a total loss, especially for cult movie fans [...] who don't mind some sizable leaps in logic and limited connective tissue.