Average Rating: 4.7/10
Reviews Counted: 10
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 5
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Release Date: Feb 28, 1986 Wide
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A mild box-office hit for New World Pictures, this lightweight attempt at horror parody from Friday the 13th producer Sean S. Cunningham stars former Greatest American Hero William Katt as a best-selling pop-horror novelist Roger Cobb (à la Stephen King) who suffers an insurmountable case of writer's block after separation from his soap-star wife (Kay Lenz) and the disappearance of their young son. Hoping to purge his personal demons by writing his Vietnam War memoirs, he moves into the massive
Feb 28, 1986 Wide
Jun 26, 2001
New World Video
All Critics (14) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (5) | DVD (12)
The movie borrows from all the right places, including Edgar Allen Poe's Tell-Tale Heart and Sam Raimi's Evil Dead.
Mediocre horror.
Pleasantly goofy horror time-killer.
A guy running around in a monster suit isn't enough to sustain a full-length horror flick...
Shows more imagination than most horror flicks.
May a house fall on the director's sister.
A fun cliché ridden horror film, director Steve Miner's House blends horror and comedy albeit not effectively well. Still, the film is entertaining and fun. Blending haunted house elements with monster film elements, director Steve Miner crafts a unique comedy horror film that delivers a good time. The film could have
August 15, 2011
Super Reviewer
This movie tries to be like the Evil Dead movies with outrageous gore, but there's little story and the characters aren't very interesting. It's really cheesy and a lot of things don't look how you'd expect them to, but I also thought this movie was kinda funny in it's cheesiness. Overall, it's okay.
September 6, 2010Super Reviewer
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