Overrated

hyped garbage

best movie i've ever seen.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

WOW!!! what a fun ride HOUSE is, a perfect blend of Horror & Comedy. 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!!! Wish i got around to watching this when i was a kid it would have been one of my favourite movies!!! But hey it is now!!! Don't need to talk about all the plot & stuff as many already have so I'm just talling you all ENJOY this CLASSIC or at least i hope you do & this is coming from an old school Horror fan!!! Honestly 10/10 for amazing monster designs & real fun humour that works perfectly & a BRILLIANT performance from the main star WILLIAM KATT!!!! loved this film & gonna watch it many more times & again & again lol great fun

I liked the story enough to get me to the end. and it wasn't like the other horror/comedy's i saw. it all depends on how you like these kind of movies i think.

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). When his beloved Aunt Elizabeth (Susan French) is found dead hanged in her bedroom, Roger inherits the house and moves to live there. His snoopy neighbor and fan Harold Gorton (George Wendt) gets close to Roger and learns that his aunt claimed that the house is haunted. Further Jimmy disappeared in the swimming pool on the back of the house. While writing his memories from the Vietnam when his pal Big Ben (Richard Moll) was captured and tortured by the Vietcong, weird things happen in the house and soon Roger leans that the place is a gateway to a hellish dimension. "House" is one of the best haunted house films ever made. The plot is funny and recalls "Twilight Zone", with surrealistic situations. William Katt is great in the role of the writer that wants solitude but finds monsters while haunted by his past. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "House - A Casa do Espanto" ("House - The Frightening House")

House is such a rare and fun movie, I'm glad I caught at the cinema, when I was 15. It's hard to pass this off as a serious and scary movie, where it leads more towards humor, yet it's still an engrossing tale of a troubled writer, who's Grandma (who we've seen in bit parts in many other films) suicides. He moves into his Grandma's two story place, to start on a new novel about yeah.... his experiences in Vietnam. Some funny flashbacks, here I tell ya, more like done in a studio. William Katt as the novelist is ideal, who thinks he's going crazy? Is it him, or this house possessed? That's the fun of the entire movie, where we have a few bit performances from actors I like, like Alan Autry and Steven Williams as cops. George Wendt as Katt's prying neighbor was fun too. If you want a few scares, more childish ones, and be humored, House is for you. It's one, if for morbid fascination, one of a kind horror movie, original, with inventive scenes, and in it's right, one hell of a thriller, all the way through, where we have to await the verdict of Katt's sanity. Well worth a look, especially if after something different, just don't really expect this one to give the creeps, more scary of course, on it's first view.