Lance Henriksen, Brion James, Rita Taggart

The ghost of an executed mass murderer returns from the grave to terrorize the cop who brought him to justice.

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R, 95 min.

Directed by: James Isaac

Release Date: April 28, 1989

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  • June 23, 2008
    The one star is out of respect for Lance Hinriksen, aside from his presence this film was probably one of the worst films that I have seen in a very long while.

    It has little to no connection to any of the other "House" movies (not that that those were great...), as a matter o...( read more)f fact it was just billed as "The Horror Show" when I DVR'd it.

    The only "horror" here is that this film got made and that Henriksen signed on.

    It contains just about every cheesy horror gimmic and cliche. Bad acting. Bad special effects. Ridiculous story (development through resolution). What really put me over the edge was hearing a "howling/hissing cat" sound bite that I had on a Haunted House record when I was a kid, being used in one of the scenes as an actual cat.

    This wasn't even good enough to qualify for my "so good it's bad" list.
  • March 7, 2008
    I really enjoyed the hell out of this when it came out, though I had no clue it was originally a house sequel, and there is no way to know from watching the film. Anyway, any film with both Lance Henrikson and Brion James is awesome by default.
  • September 13, 2009
    Lance Henrikson of 'Aliens' fame stars as a cop driven mad by the ghost of recently murdered convict, better than its predecessors, yet still comes across as true b movie horror
  • November 10, 2008
    Wicked battle-royale between Lance Henriksen's gravel-voiced detective and Brion James' marvellously OTT psychopath, "Meat Cleaver" Max Jenke (allegedly the late star's favourite of all his roles). Has absolutely zilch to do with any of the other movies in the "House" franchise a...( read more)nd is possibly all the better for it. Similar to Wes Craven's "Shocker" in some scenes, this has a memorable bit where Brion James (whose terrifying, cackling napper adorned some of the movie's posters) boasts "all that did was give me a hard-on!" after suffering the electric chair. A top loony villain indeed.
  • November 9, 2008
    wow just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a really funny movie 2 watch...i think that house 3 is the best out of all 4 of them...this is a really enjoyable comedy movie 2 watch..its got a really good cast of actors/actressess throughout this movie i think that ...( read more)the director of this Horror movie had done a really good job of directing this movie because you never know what 2 expect throughout this movie its really stupid but its funny as well...the special effects throughout this movie are really kewl as well..its got a good cast of actors/actressess throughout this movie
  • November 8, 2008
    A very creepy horror film if u love horror it is a good one in my opinion,one I 'd lov ta buy.
  • October 1, 2008
    Dumb. Plain and simple.
  • May 15, 2008
    underrated, better than Shocker (which is very similar). The execution scene is soooo funny.. and scary in a strange way.

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