Director: Steve Miner
Notable Cast: William
Katt, George Wendt, Richard Moll, Kay Lenz, Mary Stavin, Michael Ensign, Susan
French, Erik Silver, Mark Silver, Peter Pitofsky
House is a film that
firmly resides under the ‘cult cinema’ tag. Despite being a fantastic blend of
horror, humor, and just a hint of heart, House has fallen into one of those
categories where fans love it, but it doesn’t actively seek out a new fan base
as it goes. This is tragic. The film is a blast. It takes its balance of genre
bending to delirious 80s levels of cheese with its wink-wink attitude and
fantastic low budget special effects. Yet it goes wildly unseen and
underappreciated. Fortunately, cult icon distribution company Arrow Video seems
out to change that fact. House is
getting a needed restoration for a two film box set (titled House: Two Stories) that features both
the original cult classic and its even stranger and more maligned sequel House II: The Second Story. In the UK, the
boxset features all four of the films from the series which comes highly
recommended too, but here in the US it was still wonderful to see the first two
get the much-needed love that they deserve as truly unique and off beat films.
In particular, House is a film that
needs a lot of reassessment as a true underground 80s classic.