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A little girl goes mental and kills her cat, shortly after
her parents are killed by someone (perhaps the little girl?).
Anyway, several years later a ham operator picks up some
weird signal from the house that this family used to live
in so he decides to head out there to check it out with his
grumpy girlfriend. What they don't know is that the house
is haunted and anyone who enters is doomed.
Ghosthouse is known as La Casa 3 in Italy though I couldn't
find any information on La Casa or La Casa 2 (even though
there's a La Casa 4 and 5) so I'm suspecting that the
Italians made this as an unofficial sequel to the House
movies since it came out just before House 3. Anyway, this
is a pretty silly slasher which really is a complete mess
if you think about it but it still is pretty entertaining.
The story revolves around some kids who get offed one by
one in a big creepy house by an unidentified killer. It
doesn't really know whether it wants to be a slasher flick
or a ghost movie but it doesn't work as a ghost movie at all.
The acting is pretty bad and the characters are very stupid.
We have Paul, the nosy guy who seems to love investigating
nonsense things. We have Martha, Paul's grumpy girlfriend
who has got to be one of the stupidest girls ever, I mean,
after Paul and Martha received a strange message on their
ham radio where it sounds as if two people are getting
killed, Paul says that they should go to the police but
Martha cleverly says "Oh yeah? And tell them what?", for
crying out loud, just give them the tape, that should be
enough to get the police interested.
Umberto Lenzi does a pretty good job with the directing, as
always and it's very easy to see that it's an Italian movie
with the cheesy soundtrack and the way that the movie builds
up. I might not love Ghosthouse as much as everyone else
seems to but it's an all right slasher flick if you don't
mind a sloppily written script. It has a pretty high
entertainment value and even if it's cheesy, it's cheesy in
a good way so give it a try if you're into Italian slasher
flicks as this one is pretty good.
While there is a lot of gore in this flick, the special
effects are surprisingly bad for an Italian horror movie.
We get a slashed throat, an axe in the head, and one is
split in half.
Cheesy Italian synth-pop music fills this movie. I'm so used
to it by now that it actually worked quite well, maybe I've
seen too many 80s slasher flicks recently.
Ghosthouse isn't a great movie but it isn't bad either. It
holds a high entertainment value and even though the movie
is very cheesy, it's cheesy in a good way (if you know what
I mean). A definite must for any fan of cheesy Italian
slasher flicks.
Review By: AnthroFred
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