metalrage666 This premise of this movie made it sound as if it had so much promise, but after about 5 minutes in I realised I was quite mistaken. This would have to be one of the worst haunted house movies I've ever seen and I've seen possibly hundreds in my time, and while the vast majority seem to follow a central theme and are quite derivative, Fear House was nothing more than a disorganised mess. I'm not even sure where to begin with this, the acting, the plot, the effects or the lack of direction and any acting ability. The story, (if you can call it that), seems to be about some kind of curse that lingers in the house brought on by something to do with an evil priest. After he murders everyone including his manservant, his spirit has to remain in the house for some reason and kill everyone who enters. It's not the most original story and it's one that's been doing the rounds throughout the history of film going back to the silent era; in this case however when the freaky goings on inside the house get uncomfortable for anyone, it's when you try to leave that the entity within uses your own fears against you in order to kill you, but no one really knows why and basically these movies like to portray death as some kind of maladjusted kid who gets off on killing ants with a magnifying glass. Just killing someone outright isn't good enough, they have to die in the most convoluted way possible. The movie opens with 2 teenagers entering what they think is just an abandoned house so they can make out with each other, but when the deceased manservant appears and orders them out, the guy gets killed by a coat rack and the girl dies when a large winch & pulley hook embeds itself into her lower jaw. The movie then fast forwards in time and we see a female author renting the house as she wants isolation to work on her new novel. Fast forward again 9 months later and several people including the authors brother, publicist, his assistant etc is trying to track her down and following them is the author's ex- husband and his new girlfriend in another car. Upon reaching the house they find the girl who now seems to be in some kind of disassociated state and the new arrivals start getting killed off in ridiculously complicated ways depending on their own fears. Although the ex-husbands death makes no sense unless he's afraid of wrought iron gates and/or electricity. The movie meanders from one stupid death to the next with nonsensical dialogue and non- acting in between and the ending is just too stupid for words. It turns out that the female author and her brother are related to the evil priest who started the ball rolling and once the brother dies the torch gets passed on to him so he can now suffer for eternity being trapped in the house killing all and sundry who enter. Overall the movie could've been really good had someone bothered to spend some actual money on this and hire people who can act and be directed properly. While the premise certainly isn't new, there was still enough source material from countless other movies to work with to produce a movie that would've slotted in well enough to at least be enjoyable and perhaps even quite funny but this garbage fails in all areas. I've had more genuine scares while waiting in line to renew my drivers licence. I bought this second hand for less than a $1 and I still feel ripped off. Treat this crap just like a disposable razor; see it once, if you feel you must, and throw it in the bin like I did lest some other hapless soul stumbles across it and suffers a fate of death by boredom.

ctomvelu1 FEAR HOUSE suggests a place that you cannot escape from without dying. In this case, it is an old house where a writer lives. Some old friends and relative stop in for a visit, and find her in a traumatized state. She warns them that no one upon entering can ever leave. The house makes them visualize their biggest fears (hence the title), and then they die. This is a no-budget job, badly acted (with your typical no-named cast) and sporting inferior special effects. However, I like the concept, which for those old enough to remember, came from the original THE HAUNTING. That's why I gave it a 4 instead of a 1. But please, watch it at your own discretion.

tony bernardini (horrortheater) "Fear House" synopsis; Relatives and colleagues of reclusive writer Samantha Ballard track her to an isolated home in the California desert where they discover her some nine months later severely traumatized. She greets them with a grim announcement that they will die if they attempt to leave the house. After Samantha's ex-husband and his girlfriend suffer horrible deaths while trying to escape, the others realize that she was serious. They begin to scheme a safe way out even as the malevolent force that rules the house stirs the worst fears of each of them, causing them to wonder: Can they escape the evil house before their fears kill them all? When I viewed "Fear House", I got the same feeling as when I viewed the film "Phantasm" in 1979, that the horror genre may have a new talented director. Of course Don Cosscarelli went on to have a good cult following of his films (Phantasm 5 is in production) and I feel director Michael Morris may have a better future ahead of him. "Fear House" doesn't rely on over-the-top gore and blood special effects, but the psychological fear of what really scares us deep inside. While trapped in the house, each person meets their deepest fears head on and it's up to them on how to handle it as to whether they will survive or not. This film is part Phantasm, part Evil Dead and part Black Christmas (the original). It's not what you see that terrorizes you, but your own sub-conscience is your enemy.

Geminate Remember those horror movies back in the 70's that they would only show at midnight or later on the weekends? Remember how unbelievably bad they were? Well this is much much much worse, and makes horror of the 70's actually desired.The opening scene screams to your ears and eyes that this is going to be really really bad, but your mind hopes for the best...next time tell you mind to shut up, you know bad when you sense it.It is awesome just how bad it really gets, no one can just make this stuff up, it was intentionally horrible, a real effort was put forth to make this the worst movie that could ever be made.What was most disappointing is that there was no ending, and you are told that all the crap you were dragged through wasn't real and never happened - perfect if you want the worst ending to the worst movie ever made.If you want to see one of the worst horror movies ever made then I dare you to watch this and tell me that I was wrong.