Roger Cobb, a divorced horror novelist coming to terms with the disappearance of his young son, inherits an old mansion home to malevolent supernatural residents.
Roger Cobb is a author who has just separated from his wife. He moves into a new house and tries to work on a novel based on his experiences in the Vietnam War. Strange things start happening around him; little things at first, but as they become more frequent, Cobb becomes aware that the house resents his presence.
Amusing 80s haunted house flick with William Katt and George Wendt
When his aunt suddenly dies, a grieving horror writer and Vietnam vet (Katt) moves into her manor wherein he experience strange and frightening things. Whats going on? Wendt plays his neighbor, Kay Lenz his ex-wife and Richard Moll a soldier pal in Vietnam.
"House" (1985) takes the done-to-death haunted house genre and adds creativity and humor along with the expected frights. Its an entertaining horror/comedy where everything clicks, mixing elements of Poltergeist (1982), Basket Case (1982) and Ghostbusters (1984). The Vietnam sequences are odd for the genre, but the pieces of the puzzle fit by the last act.
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