Review of Ghosthouse

Ghosthouse (1988)
5/10
Umberto Lenzi's terror movie about a haunted house with stabbing, blood, gore and poltergeister phenomenon
14 June 2020
A girl : Lara Wendell and her boyfriend : Rhodes, hear strange voices by radio, it leads them to a weird and deserted house where rare happenings take place. Then visions of a deceased little girl and her clown muppet bring creepy doom to the innocent visitors of the strange place. Meanwhile, a nutty man, Donald O'Brien, on the loose is carrying out a criminal spree. We dare you to go inside.. Death holds the mortgage and if you move... They'll be hell to pay. Horror has found a new home. Enter at your own risk. Don't come alone!

Scary and eery film about haunted house made in the peculiar Umberto Lenzi style. This Italian director often uses pseudonyms as Humphrey Logan or Humphrey Humbert and made a number of cannibal, horror and Gialli films , many of them, nowadays, deemed cult movies. However, this terrifying picture is full of flaws, gaps and failures, in spite of it, resulting to be entertaining and surprising enough. There is a lot of gore, blood, including beheading, slashing, guillotining and anything else . Ghastly events taking place when protagonists show up at the creepy mansion with a bizarre small girl and her fantastic doll appearing spontaneously and causing horrible slaughters , while frightening to spectator with her scary abilities. The flick ripps off and takes parts here and there of other films, as Steve Miner's House, Evil dead, Exorcist, Dawn of the dead, Amytiville saga, among others. Features an unknown cast , exception for the slightly known Lara Wendell, Mary Sellers who starred various terror, dramas in the 70s, 80s and Donald O'Brien who performed a number of Spaghetti Western and horror movies in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

This horrifying motion picture was middlingly directed by Umberto Lenzi. He was an Italian craftsman who directed all kind of genres such as Wartime: Bridge to hell, The biggest battle, Tempi di guerra, Wild team, The damned brigade, From hell to victory, Desert commando, The damned brigade. Poliziesco : Roma a mano armade, Napoli Violenta, Manhunt in the city , From Corleone to Brooklyn, The executioner, Brothers till we die. Eurospy : Superseven chiama Cairo, 008 operation exterminate, Kriminal. Terror and Cannibal fims : Sacrifice! Cannibal Feroz, Comidos vivos, House of witchcraft, Hell's gate , Invasion of Atomic Zombies. Giallo : Wide-eyed on the dark, Orgasmo, Spasmo, Paranoia. Spaguetti Westerns : Tutto per tutto, Pistol for a hundred coffins. Adventures : Invincible masked rider, Catalina of Russia, Triumph of Robin Hood, Temple of the white elephant, Adventures Mary Read, Sandokan, Pirates of Malasya, Zorro versus Maciste, among others. Ghosthouse rating : 5/10.
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