Open House

Year: 1987 Directed by: Jag Mundhra Cast: Joseph Bottoms (Days Of Our Lives, Blind Date) Adrienne Barbeau (The Fog, Creepshow) Rudy Ramos (Beverly Hills Cop II, Helter Skelter) Mary Stavin (Howling V: The Rebirth, House)

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 Someone is killing real estate agents, making it
very difficult for them to sell houses in this
late 80s slasher movie. A radio psychologist helps
the police to get to the core of this mystery
after having received several disturbing phone
calls from a person trying to justify the recent
murders. Who could the killer be and why is he
targeting real estate agents?

What happens when Hollywood runs out of ideas? Well,
today they just remake classic horror flicks but
in the late 80s, the best way to make a couple of
quick bucks was to make a slasher flick as sleazy
as possible and drag a promising actress into the
mess. Open House is a great example of this. This
time there's a killer who's targeted real estate
agents (hahaha! oh what a clever idea, let's kill
off door salesmen next) and as usual, the killer
leaves no clues for the cops. Luckily, he loves
live radio shows which will hopefully lead the
cops right to him.

It's not the story itself that ruins this cheesy
slasher flick, it's the acting. Apart from poor
Adrienne Barbeau, the cast is just abysmal and
provides us with many unintentional laughs. The
directing is just as bad with camera work worse
than what you can expect from a low rent DTV
horror flick these days - and that is bad! Director
Jag Mundhra is still very much active however and
has directed a couple of slasher flicks since
but I guess he could only improve from this.

Some people might find Open House enjoyable just
for the cheesiness but this is not a guilty
pleasure of mine, nor will it ever be. It's a
pretty dull slasher flick with a stupid concept,
a quite pathetic killer, ridiculously bad actors
and horrible directing. It is watchable however
since it's almost so bad that it's good but if
I were you, I wouldn't be bothered trying to
track this forgotten slasher down.

We get some fingers cut off, a severed head and
very little more.

The incredibly cheesy synth score sounds like
it was taken straight out of some sleazy porno
flick. Will make you giggle.

Entertaining only for the reason that it's so
cheesy. Still, far from a necessary watch and
a movie this bad is only fun for a very limited
amount of time before you get sick of it and
turn it off. Don't bother with this one.

Review By: AnthroFred