House (1986)

[Dr. Briggs]

I still love this movie, though admittedly, a large part of that is sentimentality. I saw this long before I was ever exposed to "pure" horror—my Grandpa put it on one night when were all sleeping at his house. But honestly, I don't love it nearly as much as I do House II, which Pops also showed to us, and being (maybe) 8 or 9 at the time, I liked that one better.

I got the limited 2-disk set back when it was fairly new, which wouldn't be a big deal for me if it weren't going for like 50 bucks used on Amazon.com now X).

Though I don't really see it as horror, I like House II myself, it's got the same sort of easy-on-the-eyes cinematrography, a cast of very likable characters, and even weirder situations than the first had.

Have you seen the other two House films? I thought the third (though it was only related by business and didn't have the same crew) was a superior precursor to Shocker in some ways. The fourth, however, kind of pissed me off; it was needlessly over the top (this time weird shit happens outside of and unrelated to the house), lowered the production values drastically, and brought back William Katt from the first movie as a different guy... with the same name.

When I was young I adored this movie because it had just the right amount of horror and the right amount of humor for me to handle. The purple witch, the freaky gremlins in the chimney and those weird hands in the bathroom mirror were all things that I loved. I too thought it was a hard-core horror film but a young age I was pleasantly surprised by it's humorous tone. I haven't seen it since I was 13 so I can't comment on it's atmosphere or cinematography. Later, when I was 12 I saw The Shining and realized that Big Ben's entrance was a knock off it.

Man, I still remember playing that 'You're no Good' song over and over on the VCR and dancing to it.

I loved the effects in the film. Honestly, I wish there were more monsters, or that we saw more of the ones that were there X). Loved the inclusion of the song(s) as well, I thought it fit the tone very well.