Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Sam Panico Steve Miner has so many cinematic sins to deal with - Soul Man, My Father the Hero, Big Bully (the next to last live action film Rick Moranis would appear in), Halloween H20: 20 Years Later - that you almost forget that he started his career making the second and third installments of Friday the 13th and today's movie, House.Roger Cobb (William Katt, Carrie) has some issues. As a Stephen King-ian popular horror writer, he feels fenced in by the horror genre. He has writer's block. His wife has left him. His son disappeared and no one can find him. And the aunt that raised him just hung herself in the haunted house where he was raised.Cobb intends his next book to be about what he went through in Vietnam, so he decides to move into the house. His strongest memories involve Big Ben (Richard Moll, fulfilling the contract that either he or Robert Englund appear in every 80's horror film), a soldier who bullied him back in 'Nam who was injured and left behind for the enemy to capture.Everyone's a fan of Cobb, from his new neighbor Harold (George Wendt from TV's Cheers) to his real estate agent and the cops that investigate him. He just wants to write. But with all the monsters in his head - and real monsters in the house - that doesn't seem like it's going to happen.Things get worse when his wife visits and turns into a monster, only to be killed by a shotgun blast. At this point, the film flirts with making Cobb the real monster, but it's a narrative shift that is never followed up on. Then, as he buries his wife, his hot neighbor comes on to him. What he thinks will be a night of hot sex turns out to be him watching her young son, but that goes wrong when little monsters try to steal the kid,Finally, Cobb falls into his medicine cabinet into an alternate dimension that predates the Upside Down of Stranger Things by several decades. He rescues his son, but not before Big Ben attacks him again. Finally, Cobb realizes that all of his fears are inside his head and he destroys the monster with a grenade before leading the house to find his son and wife, who is magically returned to life.House was produced by Sean S. Cunningham and featured music by Henry Manfredini, who also worked on the Friday the 13th films. Fred Dekker wrote the original script, but most of the humor is credited to Ethan Wiley.This is a good example of pre-CGI monster moviemaking. Big Ben looks great, a triumph of practical makeup, as do the creatures that populate the film. And it's interesting that this movie explores PTSD and the dark side of war years before many were ready to face it.The look of the film reminds me of late-period Fulci minus the gore. I'm referring to the film stock itself, which doesn't have much richness, looking more like a TV movie than a theatrical film.House isn't a movie that demands that you watch it, but if you're looking for something in the middle of the night, it always provides a fun distraction. You can't dislike a film that has a large fish on the wall come to life and try to kill someone.

jacobjohntaylor1 I am glad to see this got a good ratting. 6.2 is good. But still this such great movie the 6.2 is underrating it. This a 10. It has great acting. It also has great special effects. It also has a great story line. It is very scary. It is scarier then The Exorcist. And that is not easy to do. Carrie is a great movie but it is not William Katt's best movie. This is. This is Steve Miner's best film to. Share some of the more popular films like Halloween H2O or Friday the 13th II or Friday the 13th III or Lake Placid were good movies. But this is better. This is one of the scariest movies of all time. If you like good horror movies see this movie.

SnoopyStyle Vietnam vet and successful horror writer Roger Cobb (William Katt) is quietly suffering after his son Jimmy's mysterious disappearance in the swimming pool. The case is cold and the police avoids him. In turn, he avoids his loving actress ex-wife Sandy Sinclair (Kay Lenz). It's 3 years since his big book and he plans to write about his Vietnam experiences. He is haunted by the war and his buddy Big Ben (Richard Moll). He moves into her aunt's home after she hangs herself. She had raised him after his mother's death. She claimed that the house is responsible for Jimmy's disappearance. Harold Gorton (George Wendt) is his nosy next door neighbor and his biggest fan.Coming off Friday the 13th Parts 2 and 3, director Steve Miner makes a well constructed haunted house movie. This is probably my favorite of his full length features. It's not groundbreaking but there is something about William Katt's performance as a haunted dad that is so compelling. It has a few scares but it is more about rooting for Roger. It's one of those lesser known horrors that really strikes a cord with me.

bowmanblue Whether you like 'House' will depend on how much you like cheesy films. House is a 'horror' film, only it's not that scary - it seems to be too busy messing around and generally being random to be completely scary. There are a few creepy moments, but what stands out are the collection of big rubbery monsters who invade the house one after the other.House is about Roger Cobb, who is a divorced author who moves to his aunt's mansion after she dies to continue his writing. Once settled in, he gets more than he bargains for.If you watched this in the eighties, you'll probably love it as it's just as much fun as it was then. However, if you're used to darker horror films (Mama, Insidious, The Ring) then you'll probably find this a bit tame and silly - and for a good reason - it is. But then that's what it's meant to be.Put your 'serious hat' on its peg, invite some mates round who all have an appreciation of cheesy cinema classics, break open the drinks and popcorn and have fun with this one, as it's the only way to enjoy it.http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/