Cándida Losada, a notable figure in Spanish cinema, appears in The House That Screamed (1969) as a key player in the film's unsettling narrative. Set in a remote boarding school, her role amplifies the film's themes of repression and madness, contributing to its cult status within the horror genre. Losada's performance encapsulates the eerie atmosphere of the late 1960s, a time when exploitation cinema began to push boundaries and explore darker psychological landscapes.
The House That Screamed
In the Nineteenth Century, in France, the teenager Teresa Garan is the daughter of a single mother, who is a cabaret singer. She is brought to the boarding school owned by the headmistress Ms. Fourneau by a friend of her mother that pays one year tuition for her. Soon Teresa learns that the boarding school is also a prison for the girls since Ms. Fourneau keeps everything locked. Her protégé, the wicked student Irene Tupan, keeps watch over the other girls and uses her power to bully and torture them. Ms. Fourneau has a teenager son, Luis, who is a peeping Tom, and his mother secludes him from the girls. Ms. Fourneau tells that he needs to meet a girlfriend "like his mother" and that the students of the boarding school are worthless. Meanwhile the runaway students are vanishing and their school mates believe they are fleeing from the boarding school. What they do not know is that a serial-killer is killing them. When Irene discovers that Teresa is secretly meeting Luis, she tortures Teresa that decides to flee from the school in the middle of the night. What will happen to her?
