Don't Go in the House

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Masefield</B></div> <div> <B>Music..................Richard Einhorn</B></div> <div> <B>Producer............Ellen Hammill</B></div> <div> <B>Director of Photography...</B></div> <div> <B>Special Effects Make-up by Tom Brumberger</B></div> <div> <B>Special Effects by Matt Vogel</B></div> <div> <B>Story by Joseph R. Masefield</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Donnie Kohler...Dan Grimaldi</B></div> <div> <B>Bobby Tuttle....Robert Osth</B></div> <div> <B>Mrs. Kohler.....Ruth Dardick</B></div> <div> <B>Kathy Jordan....Johanna Brushey</B></div> <div> <B>Girl in Market..Susan Smith</B></div> <div> <B>Salesman........David McComb</B></div> <div> <B>Father Gerritt..Ralph D. Bowman (Flaming Frontiers)</B></div> <div> <B>Farah...........Nikki Collins</B></div> <div> <B>Karen...........Kim Roberts</B></div> <div> <B>Barbara.........Jodee Grimaldi</B></div> <div> <B>Suzanne.........Mara Leary</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: The mother's ugings would be more important if they could be</B></div> <div> <B>discerned by the human ear. Brutally violent and not funny. Still, there are things to watch here. Donnie is a fairly convincing psycho--and the image of him burning his first victim is one you will not easily forget. Morbid, weird, psycho Movie-monsterdom's.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: A guy working at the incinerator gets cooked when a can of spraypaint explodes. A coworker, Donald, merely stands and watches while others try to save familyman Ben. The word "faggot" from a coworker strikes a nerve with the stander-arounder who insists Ben "wasn't evil, but it [the flame] covered him up", has to get home to care for his mother where we discover he has a little problem with matches. He makes his mother camomille tea, while he flashbacks to ries of "no mother don't" but she is dead. He freaks out and goes to call the police but changes his mind. He decides she's just fast asleep and will wake up soon, he implores her to wake up and drink her tea. A voice then speaks to him and tells him something incomprehensible about being free. He can play his music loud which he does dance music he goes on a kind of Norman Bates kind of Tom Cruise rampage in his house, smoking, to the tune of "When We're Alone" until he hears his mother's voice "Donald don't you dare!" and straightens up. Donald has flashbacks of his mother punishing his evil - his father had spoiled him - by burning his already scarred eight year old arms over the stove to burn the evil out of him. His coworker Bobby calls to again invite him for beer or coffee to talk before work. He tells his friend he won't be in for work and sets off to buy a flamethrower and a fireproof suit and he stops at the florist on his way home. Although the florist, Kathy Jordan, is closed, she lets him in for "something simple" for his mother. She misses her bus and is harrassed by some neanderthal street toughs he offers the young and attractive female florist a ride home, and gets her in his house under the false pretense of saying hello to his mother. He explains to Kathy that he has to call the doctor; mother has become worse. Kathy insists uon calling a cab and Donal grants her permission, gonking her as she calls. He and chains her up naked, experiences more flashbacks of mother screaming at him, dons hs fireproof suit, shakes gas onto her, and lights her on fire. He picks up a woman in a disabled car. He tells her again he has to stop at the house. Apparently she too is immolated. He approaches another female in a grocery store, but his aggressive manner warns her off. His mothr is being introduced to his minagerie. Bobby calls Donnie, teloing him that if he doewsn't show up for work he'll be fired. He explains his mother has been sick. He seems to appreciate Bobby's calling. He then has another whispered conversation with his mother. He threatens to punish his mother again. He yells at his mother, thretening her if she yells again. He imagines he hears giggling, and goes into the room where he has set up his carbonised victims and chastises them for laughing. Donnie has a pyrotechnic dream out in a desert involving corpses rising from ditches. He goes to the stairway and hallucinates his mother standing in silhouette before flames. He goes to a church full of sacramental candles and tries to steal holy water which he hopes will put out the flames. The priest tells him that the devil is in his own mind. He shows him his scarred arms, and admits his mother had done it. He admits he is evil, and that his mother rightfully burned it out of her to save him from his evil thoughts. The priest tries to get him to forgive his mother. He tries to get him to put thughts of evil aside. Donnie calls up Bobby, apparently reaching out for normalcy. Bobby suggests they double date with some adventurous girls. Meet at the palace disco at 8:00 and Donald agrees. Donald stops at the clothier and selects a red shirt "the matador". The salesman suggsts what they're all wearing, athen offers an entire ensemble, a three piece suit especially made for dancing - "a dynamite outfit". At the disco, the foursome makes trash johkes about work at the incinerator. Donald refuses to dance. The seconf disco gut gets hoser to dance and Tony to dance. She finally gets a hold of his hands and tries to pull him onto the dance floor. He struggles with her a moment and then he sets her hair afire with the candle and rushes out of the disco. Bobby rushes out and beats him. Donnie picks up some women on the street, offering them a ride home. He suggests they go to his house and they can invite anyone they want. They pick up some beer and head to his house. The priest shows up at the house at the same time. The girls find the house adorable. Suzanne soon is missing. Soon Bobby and the priest are together trying to get into the house--both apparently concerned about the abberant behavior he had shown. Bobby finally breaks the door down. They hear one of the girls screaming and head toward the sound. They find the girls tied up and free them. Donnie shows up at the top of the stairs and confronts the priest in his asbestos outfit and burns the priest. The charred women then sit up and move toward him, whispering "yopu're not the master". He tries to burn them, but they keep coming. His mother joins in the frenzy. We get a report that the Kohler house burned down as somewhere else another mother beats her son and hears voices whispering to him that promise to help him as his eyes well with tears.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>