House of Death
(Small town/High School/Slasher) 6****** skulls
*Blood* *Nudity (female frontal)* *Strong Language* *Gory* *Sexual Situations* *Violent*
1981/Color/89 Min./Virgin Vision, Inc. & ABA Productions, Inc. & United Film Distribution Corp./Not Rated
Director.............David Nelson (Last Plane Out, A Rare Breed)
Screenplay.......Paul C. Elliot
Music................Dee Barton
Producer...........Charles Ison & Ernest Bouskos
Executive Producers Ernest Bouskos & Charles Ison
Dramatis Personae
Lilly.....................Susan Kiger (H.O.T.S.)
Coach Marshall....Martin Tucker
Sheriff Avery........William T. Hicks (A Day of Judgement, My Blue Heaven)
Ramona..............Jennifer Chase
Sandy..................Jody Kay
Diddle.................John Kohler
Kathy..................Andria Savio (Stryker)
Bob.....................Kurt Rector
Tom....................Josh Gamble
Casey..................Hans Manship
Edna Sharpe.......Helene Tryon
Agnes Bottomly...Mary Fran Lyman
Sheila.................Monika Boston
Critique: Fun if not outstanding special effects it could have used some development here and there but what do you want for six skulls and a movie that didn't cost a bundle. Actually it's a triumph when one considers Amityville 4. The acting is more than passable for the milieu and the camera work and direction are above average. Not a bad bad little film for a nearly pointless exploitation film with no concept of political correctness but an eye for small town phenomena and psychoses.
Plot Summary: Makeout people, Ted and Angie, in the woods the man wants to achieve orgasm as a 10:00 freight train rumbles by but they are murdered. Now a happy town with happy music. They cant find in the happy town. The fat sheriff Avery looks at Hustler. Casey the retard is the suspect in a case of stolen baseball gear. The coaches go drink beer to celebrate the end of spring practice. Assistant coach blonde girl almost gets hit by the train. Retard Casey laughs Ramona is cleaning up and nearly gets cut by the madman. People are trying to have fun at the fair but Casey is there bothering everyone. dead people floating in the river. An endless scene of fun at the fair and young love erupts between the two assistant little league coaches.. The kids are planning a bonfire down by the river and invite a local teacher. After the fire Ramona suggests they all go down to the cemetery and tell ghost stories. Sounds like a great idea in a horror movie. Coach Marshall is the teacher all the womenfolk are talking about, and he seems stupid enough to go to the bonfire, what with his clumsy and insulting lines to the store clerk, Lilly. Still in this town he would have to be considered a catch for a lesbian with an abusive father. Casey is stumbling around in the background when one jealous young woman whip creams the big catch teacher's car. Shortly thereafter she is shot with an arrow, stumbles to the carousel and takes a scary ride while she is suffocated with a plastic bag. Casey goes home and plays with his little train set. Momma cant understand why he's so quiet. He says, "She tried to hurt him. Gooped his car." Casey loves coach. Even Casey's mother believes that he stole coach's baseball equipment, which hurts coach too just as bad as those boy and girl things." Weird. Grandma starts giving Lilly shit about hanging around with coach. His mother was practically a common whore. Grandma is weird. She pretends Lilly's mother was married and uses a picture of a man from a department store picture frame as Lilly's father. Lilly caught on to this years ago in a Savannah dept store. Ramona walks into coaches house and tries to seduce him. He scorns her. Ramona's little problem and Casey's disability appear to stem from the same incident in which Sheriff Avery's son was hit and killed by a car driven by Casey. Casey has disappeared and the Sheriff goes looking, packing his gun. Coach heads to the garage to get his car when a soccer ball falls from the loft. He investigates and is killed. Sheriff discovers coach. While naked blondie Sandy swims the dead people float up against her and she gets it knife throat ahhhhhh! The remaining idiots head off for the cemetery where they hold a fake seance and tell ghost stories. People are falling apart all over the place in a chambre du corps mort heads everywhere The big really lold student is trying to get away. The teacher gets it by Lilly's hand. he hated sluts. Someone has a little problem but that provides us with a number of suspects. She/He with the most skeletons in the family closet is the perpetrator, headed for a showdown with a soulmate.