For those in need of a post-Halloween cure, "House of Secrets" (at 9 tonight on NBC, Channels 4 and 36) is a tremulous, moody thriller with a Gothic touch.
Under Mimi Leder's direction, style overwhelms content, which is decidedly derivative.
Set in New Orleans at Mardi Gras time, the movie shamelessly lifts key scenes from two famous films of the 1950s: the French horror classic "Diabolique" and the Brazilian "Black Orpheus." In short, its best moments involve a clothed cadaver with glass eyes rising from a bathtub full of water, and a festooned carnival figure of death leading an innocent heroine through a crowd of Mardi Gras celebrants to a New Orleans graveyard.
