Review – House

Well, yeah, this does in fact take place in a house. How descriptive. The concept here, however unoriginal, is at least solid: a writer beset by writer’s block inherits his aunt’s house only to discover that it’s haunted. Ah, if only it hadn’t been haunted by some of the most dreadful rubber monsters in rubber monster history. There’s also a chunk of Vietnam stuff stirred in for good measure, though for the record this theme was just as trite when this movie first came out as it is now. There’s also a lot of unpleasant and unnecessary menacing of children in parts, though any menacing done by the goofy latex puppets in this stinker plays as comedy more than horror. And that raises the question of just who exactly was the intended audience. It’s too violent for the pre-teen crowd and too silly and thrill-free for much of anyone else. See if desperate