House

Plot synopsis:
A dettached house is shown with eerie music. A careless boy who hits the fence with his moped brings a bag of groceries into the home. The grocery boy (James "Jim" Calvert) calls for Mrs Elizabeth Hooper (Susan French), saying that he'll collect the money next week. the boy thinks he has heard some noise upstairs so he goes up, making a comment on his way -"yawk"- about a painting on the wall. He peers onto a room, and hears a soft thud. He enters on a second rooms and looks at Mrs Hooper, who has just hanged herself.At the funeral, the priest (Billy Bekc) is giving out his response. A man (Bill McLean) tells Roger Cobb (William Katt) that his aunt was not crazy. The man points to his wimpering wife, saying that she is truly mad, but not Mrs Hooper.Cut to a store where Roger is signing autographs to buyers of his shocker book - the novels Rob Cobb writes as supposed to be thematically similar to Stephen King's first horror novels. All the fans are a bit of a nerd/weirdo: the punk; the talkative spinster (Mindy Sterling) who is more interested in knowing whether he is married to Sandy Sanclair (Kay Lenz), the movie star, than in buying the book; the fan (George Wendt) who is disappointed when he hears that Cobb's next book is going to be about his experiences as a veteran in the Viet Nam war; the cheesy high-school football player (Jayson Kane). Roger says that he's now divorced from her, but the spinster keeps on talking about how wonderful and talented Sandy Sinclair is as a young actress. Frank McGraw (Steve Susskind), Cobb's publicist and friend, tells him that his fans want to buy and read the same type of novel he's produced before, but Roger insists: he really needs to write the Nam book.Back home, on his own, Roger prepares himself to defrost a pizza, putting it into the microwave without even tearing the package open. Roger stares at the blank page, so he goes to the phone instead, but the investigator hasn't been able to find any new information. Sandy phones Roger from a phone booth: she's lost a nomination to an award. Roger pretends like he's with somebody else in a party. Roger consoles her briefly and then mentions that he's writing another book, to what Sandy reacts with happiness. Sandy is sad to hang up, but she smiles to cheer the pararazzi and the crowd.That night, Roger is having a restless sleep. He wakes up with a nightmare: he is playing close to a cross indicating a tomb, all on his own, and all of a sudden, a rotten dead arm springs from the dirt. Roger wakes up in horror.Right afterwards, Roger receives another call from a realtor, saying that he's inherited his aunt Elizabeth's house. Roger goes to his closet and packs, in spite of Sandy's concerns about Roger going back to that home. Chet Parker (Michael Ensign) shows him around the home, which will be auctioned. Parker also sees possibilities in auctioning some of the furniture and bric-a-brac.Right afterwards, Roger is pruning some bushes, and his son Jimmy (Eric Silva & Mark Silva) is playing on his own with toy cars. A second later, Jimmy has disappeared, leaving the toy cars there. Roger calls out for him everywhere, Sandy goes to the door to help him, but the car leaving through the other end of the street looks to be too far away to have anything to do with Jimmy's disappearance. Roger sees a boy on the pool splashing the water. Without a doubt, Roger jumps in, but nobody - apart from himself - is there. All this is remembered by Roger while Parker talks on and on about the home. Parker thrusts an air-shotgun arrow at him carelessly. Both men stare at a weird painting of an elderly woman resembling the late aunt about to enter a lighted passage. Parker can't believe that the house has got an omen, as Roger says.Roger keeps on remembering - the police have no clue. Aunt Elizabeth looks a bit mad when she says in front of the police women that the house took Jimmy. Sandy runs away from the room crying. The police officers (Alan Autry & Steven Williams).Finally, being on his home at the house, Roger starts to think that he can hear something upstairs, and as usual, he goes to take a look. He looks at Jimmy's bedroom, and in Aunt Elizabeth's room, he watches her hang herself again. She encourages him to leave while he still can.Roger has a medicine box full of pills, but for now, he won't take any. Next morning, a dog is spreading all his rubbish. He watches his neighbour Tanya (Mary Stavin) jogging, an attractive woman. His neighbour on the house of the left, Harold Gorton (George Wendt) talks to him, and invites him to have some beer. Harold is a fan of him. As they don't have a pen there, Roger will sign an autograph for him later on.Roger goes back to writing at night. He remembers about Nam. His lieutenant (Dwier Brown) wakes Roger up, and Big Ben (Richard Moll) expresses his wish to be done with Nam as well. The Lieutenant is distributing Fitzsimmons (Joey Green), Cobb and Big Ben in attack formation for the impending one they are about to launch. Big Ben realises that a grenade was thrust at them. Shooting and mayhem ensue, and Big Ben stands tall to shoot the Nam soldiers back. He is supposedly killed in action at that moment. -- We realise that it's not only a rememberance; Roger is finally! writing the Nam war novel he wanted to write. There is a moment in which he turns off TV so that he won't lose his concentration.However, he can suddenly see the smiling face of Jimmy.He stops writing and goes to take a look. In old Jimmy's bedroom, he can't see anything, is about to peer open another door, but then mutters to himself that he's going crazy. Roger leaves, goes to the bathroom to take a pill and wash his teeth, but then decides to go back to Jimmy's bedroom to open up a door which he had left closed the previous time: there is nothing there, bevause it's an empty closet. The grandfather's clock strikes midnight just when he's aboout to leave. Roger decides to peer into the closet again, and this time, a monster is there. It attacks him, but Roger pushes it back and locks the door.Roger buys plenty of staff to build a monster trap. He dresses himself up as if he were back in his soldiering times again, and jumps out of the house, cheering to himself. His neighbour Harold asks him what he's doing, and Roger first asks "nothing", but then rumbles something about being doing his workout, and wanting to go back to the solitude of his home.He sets the monster trap, a photograph and video recording system and several thingies more. He pulls with a coil the closet door open, but nothing appears. He turns off his equipment, but comes back at midnight again. Harold scares him offering a midnight snack. Downstairs, Roger tells him that he believes that the house is hunted and he wants to catch the ghost. Harold points to Roger's divorce, level of stress..., but Roger is convinced. Roger shows his scars from when the monster tried to catch him. Harold doesn't believe him, and starts believing that Roger is nuts. Harold leaves after stealing Roger's phone book. He tells Sandy that Roger may be losing it. Unfortunately, Sandy has to be on the set at 6:30 the following morning. She leaves her day-time phone number with Harold, and then, she tries to hole Roger on the phone.But he won't pick the phone up, as he's wrting about the time when he, Fitzsimmons, Scott (Stephen Nichols), and another soldier are smoking during a break. They finally keep marching on, trying to hide from the enemy, and they realise somebody has been following them. He is writing that when he feels he needs to stop.A running toy car recalls his attention. The eye of a sword fish hanging on the wall starts to move and the sword fish attacks him. Roger tries to pick some weapons but axes, hammers, and other DIY tools start attacking him. He shoots the sword fish but his eyes keep on moving around. He tries to take another pill but has not time, as the tools bang on the door and attack him.When he goes to the hall, Sandy appears. A bullet falls, Sandy bends to pick it up, saying that she was really worried about him, and then a monster appears. Roger kills it, but then he realises it was Sandy all the time. Sandy's body has fell out of the home, but Harold his neighbour couldn't see the body. He calls the police thinking that Roger Cobb has tried to commit suicide. Roger picks Sandy's body and puts it inside the department under the stairs. When the police arrive, Roger says that it was a loose shot, as he didn't know that the gun was loaded. One of the policemen asks to use the toilet, and Roger offers them some coffee. He's nervous as hell, and everybody can notice that. Harold has also invited himself in to some coffeee. On the floor, Harold can see two more shotgun bullets. The police officer (Ronn Carroll) asks him questions about that.Later, alone again, Roger goes to tend to Sandy's corpse, but it's not there. He follows some closing doors, but behind him appears the monster (Peter Pitofsky) with a shotgun. the monster says that he won't find Jimmy as the boy is dead. The monster tries to shoot him after having hit in the back, but the gun doesn't fire. Roger leads the monster to where the flying tools are waiting, and they are the ones who killed it. Roger digs a hole in his garden to hide the head and the body sepparately. Tanya appears in a bathing suit, swimming in Roger's swimming pool!, as apparently she used to do that when Aunt Elizabeth was alive. They talk, and she asks Roger what he's doing, and what he's about to bury - the body of the monster. Roger tries to talk to her non-chalantly, as if nothing is ado. An arm appears from under the plastic rubbish bag and Roger steps on it so that Tanya doesn't notice anything odd. She is cute but stupid, so she doesn't seem to realise nothing out of the ordinary.Roger has to dig many holes, and he stares at the photograph of what once was a happy family. Harold's dog undigs the hand of the monster and runs away. Tanya calls on him with her son on tow. He's a nice boy, and the hand of the monster is holding to the jumper of Robert. Robert (Robert Joseph) is a naughty boy who runs away until Roger catches him. He has to bite onto the monster hand to release it, then he throws it away rhough the toilet. Tanya is in a hurry: she leaves Robert with a bag full of clothes, toys, etc...Robert cries, so Roger picks him and sits him down in front of the TV. Leaving him on the sofa of the sitting room, Roger goes back to write. there are animal noises in the jungle, but probably they are the enemy closing in. Big Ben goes to look what's happening, as usually staying tall, when panicky Roger Cobb shoots him dead - friendly fire. Roger goes to look for Robert, but he's not there.Three little critters (Elizabeth Barrington, Jerry Maren and Felix Silla) have taken Robert away, and are taking him up the chimney. Roger holds to Robert legs, until the three critters let him go. Roger puts Robert in a bath, and they start playing with sponges. When Tanya comes back, Robert is smiling and laughing, a s he had lots of fun.Harold appears again with some beer. Roger convinces him to help him with his fight. Harold is getting nervous. Harold is going to shoot at midnight, and it's Roger who opens the door. A big monster appears, but Harold stays frozen. When he reacts, Harold can't help Roger, who leaves flying with the big monster with a foot tangled on the rope.Roger feels he's back at the Nam place when Big Ben is about to die. He asks Roger not to abandon him in the jungle, wounded as he is. Roger says that everything will be all right, and doesn't kill Big Ben. The Nam soldiers appear and take Big Ben with them, alive and screaming that he will get back at Roger someday. Roger runs away amist the soldiers' fire. He runs to the light and gives a big jump to fall in front of the sleeping useless Harold. He wakes Harold up, who reacts startled and hits Roger in the head.Roger puts Harold to bed. He checks one of Elizabeth's paintings again: hidden with a dirty piece of cloth, in the painting of the elderly lady walking into a lighted door, he can see Jimmy from behind a mirror screaming for Elizabeth not to get in there. Roger recognises the mirror of his medicine cabinet; he goes there and pries it open, but only his medicines and pills are in it. He closes the cabinet and breaks the glass with a stool. There is a black hole which leads to another diemnsion.A tentacle appears to catch Roger. He frees himself and cuts the monsters with a knife, but then, he goes armed onto the black shaft with a flashlight. the skeleton of a dinosaur attacks him. He falls to a lake / sea. Incredibly enough, his torch is still working. He swims down trying to find Jimmy.On the shore, on a cage, he finds Jimmy, who wants to go back home but is OK otherwise. Jimmy tells him that he is coming back. Roger rescues Roger, and they emerge through the swimming-pool. They are about to leave the house through the door, but the skeleton of Big Ben (Curt Wilmot) appears Big Ben says that the Cong soldiers tortured him for weeks, and that now he wants his own back. Roger sends Jimmy for help. Big Ben enters the home and goes after Roger. Big Ben's ammunition is finished, so he throws his shotgun away, while Roger runs to the roof, and then goes back inside the house again.Roger takes one of Big ben's arms away, but he puts it in. The house now stands on the verge of a cliff. Roger galls and holds to the floor while dangling from a height. He uses his belt to throw Big Ben to the cliff.Big Ben appears again, lifting Jimmy by his t-shirt. Big Ben tells Roger to commit suicide or he will slash JImmy's throat. But a stab from Big Ben to Roger doesn't produce any effect: Roger is not afraid of him anymore. He takes Jimmy away from Big Ben, steals one of his grenades and thrusts it up between Big Ben's showy rib cabge. The explosion kills Big Ben and creates a fire on the house.Outside, Harold stares at teh fire. Finally, Sandy has arrived on a taxi, and she gets off with a worried look. Roger appears with Jimmy, who runs to Sandy.John William Young ... Would-be Writer (as John Young)Ronn Wright... Enthusiastic PatronRenee Lillian... Zealous Fan.

Tags: comedy, murder, violence, cult, flashback, absurd, revenge, entertaining

Review:
I found it scary and dark and mysterious and funny and i think i've added too many 'ands' to this review already.This is about a horror writer (Roger Cobb) who is working on his next book about his experiences in the Vietnam War. His Aunt seemingly has committed suicide and has left the house to him in her will so Roger goes there to work in solitude and is bothered by ghosts and his next door neighbour.
Among these were the House movies, which are a lot better than the genre reputation suggests.First and foremost, this is not strictly a horror film.
Monsters burst out of the closet at midnight, doors in the house lead into different dimensions and he is haunted by the memories of his best friend (Richard Moll), whom he betrayed back in 'Nam. Third, there is a sexy blonde, who bathes in his pool.One of the most appealing things about House is that Roger doesn't respond with any clichéd horror movie tactic - running away, falling flat on his face, hiding under the sink, etc.
It also stars a lot of actors that were more known for their roles in television rather than film as it has William Katt known for, The Greatest American Hero, George Wendt from Cheers and Richard Moll from Night Court.
The second film in the series would rely a bit more on comedy and action rather than horror.The story has a man named Roger Cobb who is a writer.
House was a marvellous excursion in the world of Horror Comedy and gave many people a glimpse of how to combine humour, drama and frightfully good scares.
William Katt makes for a likable victim, to his worrying state of thinking his going crazy due to the traumatic stress (war experience, missing child and marriage failure) or maybe it's the house and its dark, devious secrets preying upon his fragile mind.Roger Cobb is a Vietnam VET/ horror novelist that has tragedy on mind after the strange disappearance of his son Jimmy when visiting his aunt's house.
Truly one of the best of the 80's horror-esque films,  House uses a unique blend of suspense, horror, and humor to create a quite enjoyable movie experience.
House is definatly the best film of William Katt's career(well known for his work in the Perry Mason made for TV movies) In House,  he plays a recently divorced man who is haunted by the disappearence of his son.
Cunningham released the wildly popular (but highly overrated) "Friday the 13th" in 1980, and several years after director Steve Miner helmed the film's two sequels, the pair reunited for the 1986 horror-comedy "House." Still another hugely profitable outing for the team, "House" is a more family-friendly affair, blending some effective jolts, rubbery-looking monsters and a great deal of silliness into a tasty but middling stew.
As it is, those comedic elements are practically assured by the inclusion of George Wendt (riding high at the time playing everyone's favorite beefy barfly, Norm Peterson, on TV's "Cheers") as Roger's Gladys Kravitz-like nosy neighbor (essentially, he IS Norm Peterson here), and by the casting of Richard Moll (who was enjoying a similar great success at the time playing the childlike Bull on TV's "Night Court") as a soldier buddy of Roger's, and whose character is seen largely in flashback.
The film brought to mind two other movies for this viewer: 2011's "Insidious," which also features a father entering a demon-haunted other dimension to search for his young son, and (of all pictures!) 1958's "Monster on the Campus," which I'd just seen the day before, and which also shows us a man cutting his finger on a fish's tooth!
The successful writer Roger Cobb (William Katt) is trying to write a book about his experience in Vietnam, but he is blocked after the disappearance of his son Jimmy and the divorce from his wife, the actress Sandy Sinclair (Kay Lenz).
Aside from the two leads there is also a lot of really good 80's effects and make-up for the various demons who plague the house, including a monster in the closet which I daresay haunted many a little kid who happened across this flick back in the day.
"House" is a pretty nice cheesy haunted house story.**SPOILERS**Novelist Roger Cobb, (William Katt) who has a very dedicated horror fan-base who isn't very receptive about his new planned novel about the Vietnam War. His estranged wife Sandy, (Kay Lenz) takes this as a great sign of progress, and from her response, he decides to rent his recently-deceased aunt's mansion to get some fresh inspiration.
As the visions and experiences start getting stranger, he looks to other avenues to fight the supernatural within the house.The Good News: This film came out in the mid-80s, when it was very fashionable to have an amount of cheese in the film that will have an appeal to others outside the horror general.
"House" isn't completely bad,but isn't great either.Usually I don't like horror comedies(apart from Peter Jackson's stuff)and this film isn't also exception.The gore is virtually gone as is any trace of originality.William Katt is basically decent as a writer,who fights with demons in the house and the film is quite entertaining and relatively non-violent-good for children!OK,if you want a bad copy of "The Evil Dead" and "Demons" mixed with humour,you can try this one,just don't expect something really exciting.Not really recommended.Avoid its sequels like the plague..
For the first film, we not only get an extremely informative audio commentary from Steve Miner, Sean Cunningham, William Katt and Ethan Wiley, but we have a brand new making-of documentary which has all of those names plus George Wendt, Fred Dekker, Harry Manfredini and more.
There is nothing scary about the film, nothing creepy or even remotely macabre (other than the wardrobe and hairstyling choices, which are a whole different world of scary.) The film places itself in the "horror-comedy" genre, a dubious genre which has birthed far more bad movies than good.
Every genre fan worth their collective salt should always make time to check out this cheeky little off the wall supernatural black comedy.Back in 1986 when this movie glided onto home video I was just gathering my love for all things off the wall when it came to genre movies, of course back then my main preoccupation was any movie associated with Charles Band and his glory days at Empire Pictures.That being said, every so often a certain trailer would come to my attention that would more often than not strongly suggest that I should really check that movie out.So without hesitation, I devoured the movie, from certain pieces of dialogue, some seriously well staged set pieces and a really good soundtrack.A few years later when the movie surfaced on DVD, I needed no invitation to purchase, once again if you harbour any anorak ambitions, listening to how they came up with the story and how the movie got made is always worth a serious listen.Reminising just recently after my latest viewing, the movie has lost none of its charm, William Katt looked like he was having fun, I had only ever seen him in one movie previous, remember Disney's Baby Secret Of The Lost Legend?
Would he rather forget that one and cling to the memories of House.Or how about Kay Lenz, she who has the most amazing jaw line, should they ever consider a revamp of Doc Savage look no further, Ms Lenz's career highlight for me was the very excellent 'Stripped To Kill' which had hot dancers, a killer soundtrack and a pretty decent storyline.George Wandt as Harold Gorton I could take or leave, his acting style has never really amounted to much for me, as for behind the camera, Steve Miner was already a seasoned professional when it came to this style of movie-making and as his mentor Sean S.
Not just is this film horror but also it has enough humor to also give a viewer laughs and most of all the story is well written by watching the movie the story reveals the whole plot of the movie though it takes time to develop it all comes together in the end.
House is one of the better liked horror films of the 80's you can notice by the continued airings it receives on both premium and basic cable, I remember first watching House in the summer of 1988 and many times since I have viewed it when it shows on cable I even used to have a recorded copy put away.
William Katt is great as a novelist(Roger Cobb) who moves into his dead aunt's house only to slowly but certainly find it is a haunted home with terror and most of all secrets.
So if you haven't watched or want to watch again watch House especially when you want humor and a little suspense the cable networks both premium and basic give it many showings the acting is good so enjoy the 80's most underrated horror film..
Vietnam vet and successful horror writer Roger Cobb (William Katt) is quietly suffering after his son Jimmy's mysterious disappearance in the swimming pool.
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.
The comedy aspect of the film is what really drew me in, hysterical one liners and situations, the special effects are really scary and Steve Miner hammers the horror home.
But during the last twenty-five years, post SCREAM, FROM DUSK TILL DAWN and many others, horror combined with comedy (where death can be funny yet still scary and final) has been commonplace, even cliché, and those movies were most likely inspired by AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON and, for people in-the-know, HOUSE...Wherein William Katt's character, a horror novelist named Roger Cobb, is really more likable and affable than funny or trying for laughs: The perfect ambiguous pawn for what happens in the HOUSE he moves back into, once owned by his "crazy" old aunt, ranging from communication with his actress ex-wife (Kay Lenz) to flirting with a gorgeous blonde neighbor (Mary Stavin) to fighting a mounted marlin to strategically battling a jovial yet nightmarish "witch" monster leading to a formidable humanoid creature resembling Eddie from the Iron Maiden album covers....The best scenes occur within the HOUSE as Cobb and next-door neighbor Harold, played by George Wendt, investigate the two-story interior...
By day, Cobb struggles on a non-fiction book that conjures up palpable war memories of his personal experience in what was extremely popular during the 1980's: Vietnam...The flashback jungle sequences (featuring giant cult actor Richard Moll) look glossy and contrived, obviously filmed on a back-lot location liken to a TV show (MAGNUM P.I., etc), but the primal direction from Steve Miner is edgy, fun and full of suspense: He was a b-movie student of the film's producer Sean S.
Cunningham, who were both catapulted by the original FRIDAY THE 13TH franchise: Sean directing the first while associate producer Miner directed parts two and three...So there's a genuine and spooky, omnipresent feeling we're watching an authentic haunted house flick as opposed to a parody, and the severe main plot has Cobb searching for his son, who'd vanished in the swimming pool a year earlier.
A troubled Vietnam veteran turned writer moves into a haunted house after inheriting it from his kooky aunt.Director Steve Miner (Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, Friday the 13th Part 2) House oozes all the wacky horror comedy staples of the 80s.
Its characters all have purpose and there's a real sense that our hero - divorced former Vietnam soldier, turned horror writer, Roger Cobb - has been on a real adventure where he's grown as a character and actually accomplished something (a feat that many of today's Hollywood blockbuster scripts could take a lesson from!).While visiting his aunt in the titular 'house' Roger's young son vanishes almost inexplicitly, causing his marriage to break up and, eventually his aunt to commit suicide.
Basically, 'House' is a delight to watch if you're into 'practical effects' rather than today's CGI, for there are all sorts of rubber nasties trying to hack, slice and possess everything around Cobb.As you can probably guess, I love this film to bits, but then I'm a big fan of comedy-horror.
I grew up watching the Evil dead trilogy & hundreds of other creature features such as Critters & Ghoulies & Many Many more but never got to see any of the HOUSE movies until recently as i FINALLY found a cheap dvd on eBay on the first House (1985) & I've fallen in love with this gem of a fun Horror!!!
House is a great horror/comedy movie to watch.
House (1985) *** (out of 4)Roger Cobb (William Katt) is an author trying to come to terms with the disappearance of his young son and the separation from his wife (Kay Lenz).
Roger wants to use the isolation to come up with his new novel but it doesn't take long before strange things begin to happen.Producer Sean Cunningham and director Steve Miner had known each other since they worked on THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT and they also worked on the first two sequels to Friday THE 13TH.
Pure Comedy Horror Fun. A divorced writer, Roger Cobb (William Katt) inherits the home of his recently deceased aunt - a haunted house.
Our writer has a son missing, an aunt who once was an artist that commits suicide, a past where he was in the Vietnam war, a divorce, a neighbor that is concerned about him and moves into a haunted house.Is Roger crazy?
How this movie was not horror movie at all, Its more of comedy movie and some of some stuff that this movie come up with were just way over the top and not funny.I did laugh in some place in the movie, I thought, I did find the Rubber monster really funny, no scary at all, I think I may have enjoyed this more when Teen and as adult you would find this really silly!
William Katt stars in the 1986 horror-comedy release "House" (also known in some circles as "House: Ding Dong, You're Dead"), a fun little forgotten treasure from the creators of the "Friday the 13th" series.
The film is very much in the vain as other horror comedies (such as "Evil Dead II" and "Shaun of the Dead"), where our hero finds himself in a serious, life-threatening situation (in this film, a haunted house with connections to a hellish realm that brings your nightmares to life), yet also is full of good, light-hearted humor, and is arguably appropriate for some families with older children, as there isn't much swearing, sexual content or gore.
(Much to the anger of his publishers, who assure them that the public is tired of war stories.) However, after moving in, strange events begin to occur- things moving by themselves, the appearance of startling creatures, and other horrors, and Roger realizes that they might be connected with his son's disappearance, and that he must face these terrors to get him back.There are also some fun, supporting characters, including his oafish but good-natured neighbor Harold (George Wendt) and a good performance by Kay Lenz as his ex-wife.
I have owned this film on DVD for many years, and although it isn't a movie that I would come back to over and over, it is still a great horror comedy to watch when you haven't seen it in a while..
Roger Cobb (William Katt) was just your basic horror novelist who's aunt recently passed away due to suicide as he inherits her house.
William Katt does a nice job as a horror writer who goes "crazy" when he moves into his aunt's house and starts to see weird things.
William Katt ('The Greatest American Hero', "Carrie") stars as Roger Cobb, a horror novelist who's going through a bunch of problems: his son has vanished, his wife has divorced him, he's suffering from haunting Vietnam flashbacks, and his dotty old Aunt Elizabeth (Susan French) has recently hung herself.
It must be put into the horror genre, but it's on the fringe similar to 'People Under the Stairs', 'Highway to Hell', 'Monster Squad' or 'Army of Darkness' because of the films' comedy/Pre-PG-13-esque feel and its' near-fantasy spin.House suffers from some low-budget/80's pitfalls, but all of the characters are likable, and it does have a great deal of unpredictability and wit.
"House" is like the "Star Wars" of the horror genre -- an innovative, thought-provoking film that will forever change the way you look at horror movies.
In an effort to turn his life around, Roger decides to write a new book based on his war experiences in Vietnam, but after moving into his late Aunt's creepy old house for a bit of solitude, he discovers that his past is finally about to catch up with him.Written by Fred Dekker, produced and directed by Friday the 13th's Sean S.
very entertaining horror/comedy has great acting a cool looking dead guy and lots of cool moments and a very cool finale although silly it is very fun silly so it did not bother me and the house looked cool and you have a happy ending a must watch ***1/2 out of 5.
Horror Writer Roger Cobb has lost his son at his aunt's house.
It seems as though the actors, with the possible exception of George Wendt, can't decide whether they're in a scary comedy, or a humorous horror film.
Roger Cobb is quite the interesting hero--the way he deals with the demons in his house is very odd, but hey, it's nice to see someone fight back in a horror movie for once.
Directed by Steve Miner I thought House was an entertaining & modest little comedy horror.