Unaware that it's plagued by a host of supernatural phenomena, a mother and her daughter, still reeling from a car crash which claimed the life of Roger Cobb, move into the hold family homestead to start a new life.
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This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Where there's a buck to be made, it will be, and a popular film will always spawn sequels. They don't care, just knock 'em out. The first film looks like a masterpiece compared to the following three, which shows how poor the sequels are. they are not the worst sequels in the world ( with the exception of house 2) but they fail on all levels.The second was childish schlock, the third a "shocker" type film saved only by Lance Henriksen. The fourth was ok but gaping plot holes ruin it. 1. The ghosts seem to like the owners and want them to stay, helping them out in the end to defeat the baddies, yet through the whole film they seem to terrorise them. I can understand Roger Cobb's hand coming up through the spilt ashes can seem like horror when in fact he is showing he is around in spirit, but the blood in the shower and " get out or die" on the steam covered bathroom mirror? This is a huge contradiction. Do the bad guys at the chemical company get convicted? I'm assuming the step brothers confession might lead there but it's not clear.I didn't like the Roger Cobb death. I kind of feel after all he went through in house 1, to then die prematurely, and so horribly in house 4, was kind of a let down. Little did we know in house 1 what was in store. I know life happens, and this could be a possibility, but it gives it a depressing slant and taints the original.The original House is the only one worth watching. Like is the cast with most sequels.
~Spoiler~ The House movies have been Sean Cunningham's less successful franchise. The original House is one of those rare horror comedies that works. House II is a superb effort that almost completely goes for comedy and is a whole lot of fun. House III technically doesn't exist. But if you want to call The Horror Show part of the series, it tries to be too serious and comes off very badly. I don't know what the writers, producers, director of House IV were going for. It has a few scenes that are trying to be terrifying, and then it has silly scenes involving a talking pizza. And there are no cast members from Cheers so I choose to ignore it as a sequel. The only link between this film and the first is the return of William Katt as Roger Cobb (in a glorified cameo). This is a completely different house and he has a completely different family, but I guess they wanted some sort of continuity. Why? I don't know. It just makes the movie that much dumber for trying. My favorite thing about this movie is the back of the box. It boasts "the most shocking shower scene since Psycho." That's right, they're comparing House IV to Psycho. In other words, do not waste your time.
If you go into this expecting a pleasant sequel to House(1986), you will be vastly disappointed. This is a message horror movie about the evils of toxic waste and killing Native Americans. There is an odd feel to the movie, but not in a good way. Mostly it is either dumb, beating a failed henchman with a sex doll, or sick, watching a little person hack up lung butter. There is only one scene that really came close to being as funny and scary as scenes in the original house. Mrs. Cobb opens up a pizza box and the pizza has a face which starts singing to her. William Katt does return in this movie to be killed and also in one scene as a ghost. Thanks a lot. Thankfully this was the third and final House film, seeing as House 3: The Horror Show is a sequel like Zombie 2 is a sequel. Stick with the original, you can never fail with William Katt and George Wendt.
This is what I call a living nightmare. If you're reading this, then do as I say...First, skip the dialogue part. There is nothing useful in them and they are so bad they make you wanna cry.Second, eat and drink everything you have within the first 40 minutes of the movie. Prepare a paper bag or sit closer to the bath room if you need to throw up either from hopeless storyline or yucky stuff they are showing in this movie.Third, you may try to get scared or to have a laugh and a half. You tell me if you have.Fourth, turn off everything that runs on electricity, don't smoke and put your TV on timer, because, most probably, you will fall asleep.That's it. Wish you nice watching.