House

12/6/19851h 32m

Theatrical (limited) Release (US)

~ Horror Has Found a New Home. ~

Overview:

Roger Cobb, a divorced horror novelist coming to terms with the disappearance of his young son, inherits an old mansion home to malevolent supernatural residents.

Director:

Steve Miner

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$3,000,000.00

Revenue:

$19,444,631.00

Key words:

vietnam war
vietnam veteran
haunted house
author
new neighbor
novelist
next door neighbor
neighbor neighbor relationship
divorced man
guilty conscience
dream like experience
divorced couple
missing son
war trauma
subconscious
unresolved issues
traumatized man
intergenerational trauma
flirty neighbor
moving into haunted house

Cast

William Katt

~ as ~

Roger Cobb

George Wendt

~ as ~

Harold Gorton

Richard Moll

~ as ~

Big Ben

Kay Lenz

~ as ~

Sandy Sinclair

Mary Stavin

~ as ~

Tanya

Michael Ensign

~ as ~

Chet Parker

Erik Silver

~ as ~

Jimmy

Mark Silver

~ as ~

Jimmy

Susan French

~ as ~

Aunt Elizabeth

Alan Autry

~ as ~

Cop #3

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Reviews (2)

m
marcellus
Written 12 year(s) ago
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Roger Cobb is a author who has just separated from his wife. He moves into a new house and tries to work on a novel based on his experiences in the Vietnam War. Strange things start happening around him; little things at first, but as they become more frequent, Cobb becomes aware that the house resents his presence.
Wuchak
Written 3 year(s) ago
7
Amusing 80’s haunted house flick with William Katt and George Wendt

When his aunt suddenly dies, a grieving horror writer and Vietnam vet (Katt) moves into her manor wherein he experience strange and frightening things. What’s going on? Wendt plays his neighbor, Kay Lenz his ex-wife and Richard Moll a soldier pal in Vietnam.

"House" (1985) takes the done-to-death haunted house genre and adds creativity and humor along with the expected frights. It’s an entertaining horror/comedy where everything ‘clicks,’ mixing elements of “Poltergeist” (1982), “Basket Case” (1982) and “Ghostbusters” (1984). The Vietnam sequences are odd for the genre, but the pieces of the puzzle fit by the last act.

Mary Stavin (Tanya) stands out on the feminine front with a couple quality scenes.

The film runs 1 hour, 33 minutes, and was shot in Monrovia, California (house exteriors), which is just northeast of Los Angeles, as well as Doheny Mansion at Mount St. Mary's College in Los Angeles (interiors).

GRADE: B