attractive husband and wife write team robert wagner ( a joel gregory ) and kate jackson ( a donna gregory ) arrive at the spooky mansion of actress lorna love ( actually and silent film star harold lloyd house ) . mr. wagner and ms. jackson be contract to write the silent movie star biography . wagner have a personal interest in the project and since his father be once the famed star lover . mysterious event unfold and and jackson must fight to save her husband from the spirit of the beautiful blonde and who be perfectly preserve in a crypt on the estate while moreover and the evil woman seem bent on possess her husband and and murder jackson . this be very much a night of dark shadow variation and co star genuine dark shadow alumni kate jackson and who know and play her part well . robert wagner lack david selby intensity . sylvia sidney ( a mrs. joseph ) sidestep grayson hall . marianna hill be not a match for lara parker ( or diana millay ) . bill macy ( a oscar payne ) be good in a part that would have be play by john karlen ( in a dan curtis production ) . there be smooth cameo by joan blondell and john carradine and and dorothy lamour . ms. lamour delivery resembles joan bennett and which beg the question represent why do not producer aaron spell get more of the original dark shadow regular . director e. w. swackhamer be bridget hanley husband while he work with ms. blondell on here come the bride and and with jackson on the rookie . death at love house have and arguably and a tight storyline than the night of dark shadow film while it differ in the movie star angle while and and in it father eternal fire end and it more closely resemble the tvseries laura the phoenix storyline . death at love house ( 9/3/76 ) e. w. swackhamer ~ robert wagner and kate jackson and sylvia sidney .