House - The horror house
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German title | House - The horror house |
Original title | House |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1986 |
length | 91 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 16 |
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Director | Steve Miner |
script |
Fred Dekker , Ethan Wiley |
production | Sean S. Cunningham |
music | Harry Manfredini |
camera | Mac Ahlberg |
cut | Michael N. Knue |
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House - The Horror House is an American horror comedy from 1986.
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Roger Cobb is a writer and Vietnam veteran . A year ago, his young son Jimmy disappeared in an unexplained manner at his aunt's house. After this incident, his marriage fell apart and he struggled to survive writing horror novels. After his aunt's surprising suicide in her house, Roger returns to the gloomy Victorian estate to write down his experiences in the Vietnam War in the seclusion.
When he is haunted by monsters and ghosts in the house, evidence for Roger that his son is still alive and is hidden somewhere in this house. He follows the clues left by his deceased aunt and finds himself through a psychic door behind the mirror cabinet in the bathroom into an in-between world in which a former comrade, whom Roger Cobb inadvertently left to the enemy, has to live through an eternal hell in the jungle of Vietnam . In revenge, the undead soldier kidnapped Roger's son Jimmy into his world and has kept him captive ever since.
Roger rescues his son and returns to the world of the living, where he is still haunted by the monstrous ghost of his vengeful comrade. When he realizes that the monster in his world cannot cause him any physical damage, he leaves him to his fate a second time and this time finally with an unlocked hand grenade. While the cursed house and its ghosts go up in flames, Roger carries his son outside, where both the overjoyed wife and mother are expected.
Reviews
A hectic ghost train ride through the cinema of horror, while the familiar genre patterns are exploited without any particular originality. Ambivalent in dealing with the chapter on the Vietnam War. (Film service)
Sequels
The film drew a total of three sequels, all of which were produced by Sean S. Cunningham . In 1987 House II - The Unexpected , 1989 The Horror Show , which was titled House III outside the USA , and 1991 House IV .
Web links
- House - The house of horrors in the Internet Movie Database (English)