{"id":939,"date":"2008-10-07T14:19:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T18:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=939"},"modified":"2008-10-07T14:19:41","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T18:19:41","slug":"ghosthouse-1988-umberto-lenzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/939","title":{"rendered":"Ghosthouse (1988, Umberto Lenzi)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t like this place.  It&#8217;s&#8230; depressing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/ghosthouse1.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Umberto Lenzi (hilariously credited as Humphrey Humbert) made this seven years after <em>Cannibal Ferox: Make Them Die Slowly<\/em>.  Fortunately he&#8217;d stop making movies soon, but not before he put out <em>Demons 3: Black Demons<\/em>.  Produced by Joe D&#8217;Amato, the director of <em>Cave Dwellers<\/em>, <em>Porno Holocaust<\/em> and <em>Anal Instinct<\/em>.  Unfortunately, I didn&#8217;t look any of this stuff up before watching the movie, or I might not have, because as the resumes of those men would imply, the movie suuuucks.<\/p>\n<p>Opens with a girl named Henrietta in the basement, which is the only possible Evil Dead connection (movie was titled House 3 for its Italian release, to boost sales off the rep of the Evil Dead movies, titled House 1 &#038; 2 in Italy.  See also my sequel theories for the Japanese movie called <a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/891\"><em>House<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Boston, Italy:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/ghosthouse9.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Movie is shot in Boston for some reason, and in English.  A girl with a really strong Euro-accent (she was also in <em>Tenebre<\/em>) is named Martha.  Someone mentions Simon LeBon, which would prove this is a 1988 movie.  Everyone is into HAM radio (was <em>that<\/em> big in &#8217;88?).  There are creepy\/annoying baby-talk noises on the repetitive carnivalesque soundtrack.  Lightbulbs and bottles explode to build tension.  Dialogue is sooo awkward, badly written and sometimes dubbed.  Atmosphere is extremely un-scary, then when a character does something extremely stupid (like go back into the haunted house where her friends have just died to take a quick shower before she leaves), that music kicks in and gory death ensues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe there&#8217;s something supernatural about this, guys.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I don&#8217;t know.  All I know are computers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230;and HAM radio:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/ghosthouse2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>I may dislike Italian horror, but junk like this is leagues away from lamely-plotted but crazily awesome-looking movies like <a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/384\"><em>Inferno<\/em><\/a>.  Gonna have to choose my directors more carefully next time.  Oh, but the actors suck too, and they&#8217;re nobodies, all except for Donald O&#8217;Brien (below), who has also appeared in <em>Zombie Holocaust<\/em>, <em>Inglorious Bastards<\/em>, <em>Django Rides Again<\/em>, a couple John Frankenheimer flicks and a Robert Bresson film!  He&#8217;s the only actor who gets a screenshot &#8211; the others can bite me.<\/p>\n<p><em>D. O&#8217;B:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/ghosthouse7.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><em>killer klown:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/ghosthouse3.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><em>would&#8217;ve sounded better with dolby:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/ghosthouse4.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><em>whichever P.A. pissed off the director had to wear the maggot mask:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/ghosthouse5.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t like this place. It&#8217;s&#8230; depressing.&#8221; Umberto Lenzi (hilariously credited as Humphrey Humbert) made this seven years after Cannibal Ferox: Make Them Die Slowly. Fortunately he&#8217;d stop making movies soon, but not before he put out Demons 3: Black Demons. Produced by Joe D&#8217;Amato, the director of Cave Dwellers, Porno Holocaust and Anal Instinct. 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