This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Let's be realistic.

Highly Overrated But Still Good

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

This premise of this movie made it sound as if it had so much promise, but after about 5 minutes in I realised I was quite mistaken. This would have to be one of the worst haunted house movies I've ever seen and I've seen possibly hundreds in my time, and while the vast majority seem to follow a central theme and are quite derivative, Fear House was nothing more than a disorganised mess. I'm not even sure where to begin with this, the acting, the plot, the effects or the lack of direction and any acting ability. The story, (if you can call it that), seems to be about some kind of curse that lingers in the house brought on by something to do with an evil priest. After he murders everyone including his manservant, his spirit has to remain in the house for some reason and kill everyone who enters. It's not the most original story and it's one that's been doing the rounds throughout the history of film going back to the silent era; in this case however when the freaky goings on inside the house get uncomfortable for anyone, it's when you try to leave that the entity within uses your own fears against you in order to kill you, but no one really knows why and basically these movies like to portray death as some kind of maladjusted kid who gets off on killing ants with a magnifying glass. Just killing someone outright isn't good enough, they have to die in the most convoluted way possible. The movie opens with 2 teenagers entering what they think is just an abandoned house so they can make out with each other, but when the deceased manservant appears and orders them out, the guy gets killed by a coat rack and the girl dies when a large winch & pulley hook embeds itself into her lower jaw. The movie then fast forwards in time and we see a female author renting the house as she wants isolation to work on her new novel. Fast forward again 9 months later and several people including the authors brother, publicist, his assistant etc is trying to track her down and following them is the author's ex- husband and his new girlfriend in another car. Upon reaching the house they find the girl who now seems to be in some kind of disassociated state and the new arrivals start getting killed off in ridiculously complicated ways depending on their own fears. Although the ex-husbands death makes no sense unless he's afraid of wrought iron gates and/or electricity. The movie meanders from one stupid death to the next with nonsensical dialogue and non- acting in between and the ending is just too stupid for words. It turns out that the female author and her brother are related to the evil priest who started the ball rolling and once the brother dies the torch gets passed on to him so he can now suffer for eternity being trapped in the house killing all and sundry who enter. Overall the movie could've been really good had someone bothered to spend some actual money on this and hire people who can act and be directed properly. While the premise certainly isn't new, there was still enough source material from countless other movies to work with to produce a movie that would've slotted in well enough to at least be enjoyable and perhaps even quite funny but this garbage fails in all areas. I've had more genuine scares while waiting in line to renew my drivers licence. I bought this second hand for less than a $1 and I still feel ripped off. Treat this crap just like a disposable razor; see it once, if you feel you must, and throw it in the bin like I did lest some other hapless soul stumbles across it and suffers a fate of death by boredom.

FEAR HOUSE suggests a place that you cannot escape from without dying. In this case, it is an old house where a writer lives. Some old friends and relative stop in for a visit, and find her in a traumatized state. She warns them that no one upon entering can ever leave. The house makes them visualize their biggest fears (hence the title), and then they die. This is a no-budget job, badly acted (with your typical no-named cast) and sporting inferior special effects. However, I like the concept, which for those old enough to remember, came from the original THE HAUNTING. That's why I gave it a 4 instead of a 1. But please, watch it at your own discretion.

I viewed this film late at night, i wasn't tiered, i was wide awake but oh god i wish i was asleep.I love cheesy horror films, but there's a certain amount i can stand and then it just goes too far. The film starts off on a horrible note with a couple making love inside "Fear House". However the house has never been touched in 100's of years the place looks awfully modern. Enyway, back to the story. They are in the middle of doing it when a guy walks in and says the usual "Your trespassing". blah blah blah. The couple run out and die horrible cheesy deaths.Spoilers!!! Don't look! The guy slips on a wet floor (don't know why it was wet) and and then "suddenly" a coat rack falls on him and stabs him in the eye! His girlfriend run's out and trys to get the gate open but it won't (typically) then "suddenly" a hook come's down and stabs he beneath the jaw.now with these few deaths i assume you can tell how the film is going to continue on.A writer then rent's to the house to concentrate on her newest book. blah blah blah.nine months past.Group of new people enter the story. Writers brother. Random woman who has lost her father (for some reason they are all sharing the same car). Writers manager and his assistant. also the car behind there's has the writers ex-husband in it and also a trailer park trash Barbie. They go inside the house. am boring you aren't i? Well the look around find the weirdo sister. she tells them a not so spooky story about a "Little girl" and they all get freaked.Spoilers! The Barbie and ex get knocked off. She gets killed by a stupid dog that we never see and he get's electrocuted by a random hanging wire.The story continues with stupid and pointless dialogue and stupid scenes that make no sense. Now each character seem's to have a fear but if i could keep track of them all only two get killed by there fears and the really loosely I'm saying. Well there's one character that i didn't really mind-was the managers assistant who then blossom's a "suprising" relationship with the brother. All this drama could kill me or should kill me cus this film was terrible.Most cheesy horror films, have if not a good budget, good make up effects. But this was different. The characters were killed off randomly at points and had no relevance to the story. And the Ending! Normally they sum things up but i was left thinking wtf? I didn't get it. it was crap. The acting was rubbish. The scares were pathetic and didn't make sense. i would just rather take a bullet than watch this film.And the worst part is. I spent money on it!!!

Remember those horror movies back in the 70's that they would only show at midnight or later on the weekends? Remember how unbelievably bad they were? Well this is much much much worse, and makes horror of the 70's actually desired.The opening scene screams to your ears and eyes that this is going to be really really bad, but your mind hopes for the best...next time tell you mind to shut up, you know bad when you sense it.It is awesome just how bad it really gets, no one can just make this stuff up, it was intentionally horrible, a real effort was put forth to make this the worst movie that could ever be made.What was most disappointing is that there was no ending, and you are told that all the crap you were dragged through wasn't real and never happened - perfect if you want the worst ending to the worst movie ever made.If you want to see one of the worst horror movies ever made then I dare you to watch this and tell me that I was wrong.