Review: A bizarre but compelling story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 16, 2012
"House Guest" is tough to classify, but if I had to put it neatly in one genre, it would be horror. It's a strange story of a young man who moved in with his girlfriend, who lived with her parents, and - incredibly - avoided being detected by the girl's parents. Soon after the move, however, his girlfriend was in an accident that left her in a vegetative state. She was still in her bedroom, but now she was being fed through tubes and was totally unresponsive. So out the boyfriend goes, right? Well, no, he discovered that he had a special mission to perform, and therein lay the crux of the story."House Guest" was a truly bizarre story, and an unbelievable one, but it was just too compelling to put down. Alfred Hitchcock would have loved the story, especially the O'Henry twist at the end.