Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

2hotFeature one of my absolute favorites!

Kidskycom It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Brian T. Whitlock (GOWBTW) Being agoraphobic can take a toll on you. For writer, Lauren Cochran(Robin Groves), life in the big city isn't a walk in the park. She's afraid to anywhere. So when she sees her shrink, she rents a mansion in the country. There, she can do her work. However, strange occurrences start to unwind while she's staying there. When she opened the window and stepped out, she is stuck and afraid to move. Her shrink comes by to help, but he's tragically killed trying to help her. More to wonder what has went on in the mansion. It turns out that the mansion has been used as a brothel. And the colonel(John Carradine), has seen his granddaughter living there which has given him a stroke. Two of the locals, a handyman, and the town drunk were responsible for the murders of the prostitutes and other soldiers in the brothel. This movie was a bit of a cross between "The Shining", "The Boogeyman", "The Sentinel", and "The Devonsville Terror". There's plenty of supernatural aura, acts of vengeance and redemption. I liked it very much. Plenty to say. 2.5 out of 5 stars.

lost-in-limbo Probably should have been much more nastier and sleazy than it was, because of the plot's lurid context and it being directed by adult filmmaker Armand Weston. However that's not the case, even though it does provide some nudity and unpleasant shocks it doesn't go all that far with it. Nonetheless the main issue arose with the narrative, as this haunted house feature just wasn't all that gripping in its mystery or characters. Outside some of its stinging set-pieces (rooftop rescue) and its perfect rural locations that centred it all around a strikingly imposing Victorian house, it was rather bland. Novelist Lauren Cochran suffers from Agoraphobia and decides to leave the city for the countryside for peace in an attempt to help her writer's block. The old house she rents has a shocking history, although unaware to that, strange things begin happening as she begins to see a recurring lady figure and brutal deaths start occurring. The formulaic story is rather contrived in its developments (visions of the past, family secrets and retribution) or in a way there's not much happening at all. There the script even toys around with the character's phobia to draw upon mystery and tension. It's unremarkable, but still the film looks well produced for such a little b-picture. Many stylish shots that can have an eerie feel, a kinetically unhinged music score that only adds to the anxiety filled atmosphere and the editing is tautly done despite its slowly unravelling nature. The performances are kind of bumpy as Robin Graves' neurotically uptight turn is believable, but aggravating in some hysterics. Also genre favourite John Carradine has a key role and tiny part for Gloria Grahame. An accomplished, but unspectacular 80s haunted house fare."Last night I lost touch of all reality".

Woodyanders The late 70's and early 80's saw a surprising rash of entertainingly trashy low-budget haunted house chiller dillers, resulting in the vigorously pulpy "The Evil," the not half bad "The Hearse," the dreary "Death Ship," the enjoyably sleazy "The House Where Evil Dwells," and this pleasingly lurid outing, which starts out pretty low-key and unsettling before delightfully degenerating into a wildly frantic and gruesome over-the-top shockfest.Lauren Cochran (a deeply sympathetic performance by the wispily attractive Robin Groves) is a hugely successful, but extremely repressed and neurotic author of Gothic novels who suffers from severe agoraphobia. So Lauren decides to take a load off and subsequently acquire a firmer hold on her shaky sanity by taking a much-needed vacation in the country. Lauren holes up in a musty, dingy, dilapidated old Victorian mansion that turns out to be a onetime bordello haunted by the vengeful, insanely laughing specter of the red-haired madame (the ever-sultry Gloria Grahame in her last film role). When Lauren tries to find out about the squalid abode's grimy past history, several seedy secondary male characters meet ghastly untimely ends and Lauren herself gets manipulated by the unrestful spirits of prostitutes murdered in the house decades ago to exact a brutal revenge on the people responsible for the massacre.Former porno filmmaker Armand Weston, who did both the capable direction and co-wrote the solid, twisty, engrossingly sordid script, initially opts for a quietly nerve-rattling and unexpectedly delicate things are slightly out of whack eerie and mysterious mood, what with windows strangely breaking, a Victrola suddenly playing in the dead of night, Lauren experiencing horrific nightmares, cryptic messages left on Lauren's typewriter, and the ghost of the madame making sporadic jarring manifestations. Then the killings begin about halfway through and the film starts laying on the crudely visceral shocks something thick, thus making this one of those rare fright flicks that manages the tricky feat of blending an ambiguously creepy-crawly atmosphere with more bluntly presented jump-out-at-you scare tactics with praiseworthy effectiveness. The noodling synthesizer score by Jack Malkin and Kim Scholes and Joao Fernandes' gloomy cinematography contribute greatly to the overall gooesepimply spookiness while old reliable John Carradine turns in his customary robust cameo as a cranky, wheelchair-bound town elder with a few dirty skeletons in his fiercely guarded closet. Moreover, the sex, nudity and violence quotient is reasonably high, therefor making this picture satisfyingly scuzzy exploitation fare as well. Plus there's a thoughtful and provocative underlying subtext concerning closure and catharsis that's neatly integrated into the story. With all these things working in its favor, this feature overall sizes up as an unjustly neglected sleeper that's well worth checking out.

avante911 Well i've seen this movie a couple times and I have a copy of it on DVD that I transfered from VHS last time I rented it. This is one of those classic horror movies from back in the day when horror movies actually did make you jump, and they made sense! LOL The plot took me for a spin and it was a little confusing at times, but i've figured it out after the second time seeing it.I with they made movies like this still that had odd story lines to make you think, and that didn't always rely on today's technology to make it all about the special fx.This movie was cool though, definitely worth the watch!