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Title: House: Limited Edition (20,000) includes House II (2001)
Format: DVD
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Starring: William Katt, Kay Lenz, George Wendt, Richard Moll, and Mary Stavin
Director: Steve Miner
Rating: R (Restricted)
Runtime: 180
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Comments for House: Limited Edition (20,000) includes House II

• Posted on 2010-07-30
  Classic madness!!
  
  This movie will stay in my collection for years!! What a great old horror flick!!
  
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• Posted on 2010-07-15
  BEST MOVIE EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
  FIRST OF ALL, I HAVE TO SAY THAT I LOVED THIS MOVIE. IT IS MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE MOVIE OF ALL TIME! IT HAS COMEDY, HORROR, ACTION, FANTASY, MONSTERS, GHOSTS, MISSING CHILDREN, AND A BUNCH OF OTHER GREAT STUFF! IT HAS FAMOUS ACTORS AND ALL THE GREAT MOVIE ELEMENTS. A WONDERFUL PLOT AND AND UNFORGETTABLE ENDING. THIS MOVIE IS ONE OF MY EARLIEST MEMORIES BECAUSE WHEN I WAS FOUR I WAS WATCHING IT WITH MY DAD AND I RAN OUT OF THE ROOM SCREAMING! I HOPE YOU LOVE THIS MOVIE AS MUCH AS I DID. [DID I MENTION THAT HTIS IS MY FAVORITE MOVIE EVER]? BUY THIS MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
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• Posted on 2010-07-12
  Great!
  
  Came on time and in mint condition. I am a big 80`s movie buff and love to find great classics. THANKS!!
  
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• Posted on 2010-04-21
  "Great 80's Horror Films!"
  
  William Katt and Kay Lenz star in the 1986 horror film.
  A writer moves into his Aunt's home discovering that
  it's full of strange things. Arye Gross and Jonathan
  Stark star in the 1987 horror sequel. A young man
  inherits his parents home and finds an ancient skull
  along with his ancestor. I've always enjoyed these
  films and it's nice to have both together that have
  good picture and sound plus a couple neat extras.
  I recommend these great 80's horror films.
  
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• Posted on 2010-01-07
  "Damn! Come back from the grave and ran out of ammunition."
  
  When is a house not a home? When it's trying to scare the pisss out of you, that's when. In retrospect I had to think about why I liked this flick, because it does have stuff going against it. HOUSE is cheesy and campy, and yet also fun, and I guess maybe it's fun because it's so cheesy and campy. HOUSE is very much a product of the 1980s and this absolutely includes its featured lead William Katt, the Greatest American Hero himself.
  
  HOUSE sets itself up to be a sinister horror film with dark psychological overtones. Roger Cobb (Katt) is a popular horror fiction author who's been recently coasting on his past success. Roger's in a slump, and it's not helping that he's been so obsessed with cranking out his Vietnam War memoirs. The writing doldrums go back some time ago to when his kid mysteriously vanished at his aunt's spooky house. So to recap: languishing career, vanished kid. And, because certain things crop up in threes, Roger's hot actress wife also divorces him.
  
  When his eccentric aunt hangs herself, Roger inherits her house and, rather than selling it, Roger decides to live in it for a while, hoping for inspiration to kick in. But an evil house does not a muse make. Soon all the weird stuff starts happening.
  
  A lot of the movie is presented as a one-man act for William Katt, broken up by cutaways to Roger's ex-wife and by occasional drop-in visits by his nosy neighbor and his sexy neighbor. For the first half hour or so you sink into William Katt's character as he finds himself tormented by the haunted house, which is somehow dredging up traumatic memories of Roger Cobb's stint in Vietnam. There's a whiff of THE SHINING going on as we see Roger gradually going off the deep end. But then, somewhere along the way, things descend into slapstick territory. And while the story does drum up scattered scares here and there, they're undermined by the painfully obvious rubber monster suits and all the (intentional) goofiness. We get rehashed zaniness that recalls the EVIL DEAD series, but lacking that Sam Raimi's inspired frenzied touch. For a horror movie, the victim body count is practically nil. But the champion killjoy are all those Vietnam flashbacks that feel totally out of place and very dated. To me, these scenes established a jarring effect.
  
  So why do I like this movie? I really think that a huge chunk of the reason is that I saw it during its theatrical run when I was a teen, so I'm pulling the nostalgia card. If you're an '80s buff, then you've got William Katt and George Wendt (Norm!! from CHEERS) and Richard Moll (NIGHT COURT) who in this one plays a soldier in Roger's platoon in the flashbacks. For a low budget production HOUSE actually boasts some decent acting. I like that William Katt never breaks character, even though all kinds of crazy shizzy rain down on him, and he takes on this fascinating tunnel vision mentality. You and me, the first time the house does something scary, we're probably out of there so fast there's you and me-shaped dust clouds left behind. But Roger Cobb decides to fight and beat the house at its own game. That is some impressive (and very stupid) brand of singlemindedness. And I even relish the bizarre turn which finds Roger Cobb babysitting a neighbor's young kid.
  
  I also enjoy the film's juggling of the serious horror elements and the tongue-in-cheek stuff. What can I say, I'm a child of those times. I roll my eyes and make all the proper groaning noises, and yet I can't help but laugh with appreciation at all the kooky. William Katt takes it all so seriously, it's friggin' endearing.
  
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