shinobi_10 Review of House of the Damned

House of the Damned (1996 Video)

Funny and enjoyable, the original "House of the Damned" a hard to find gem

[10/10 · 16 April 2008]

I young girl named Liz is having a hard time dealing with the recent untimely death of her father. Her strikingly young looking and attractive mother seems alarmingly indifferent and emotionally disconnected from her daughter. Liz's somewhat derange grandfather tries to convince her that they are really brother and sister and her mother is an evil queen who will kill Liz at midnight and steal her youth to stay young (something she's been doing for a few hundred years apparently). Liz doesn't believe him until all of her friends that she invited to her birthday party and her grandfather, I mean brother excuse me, are all already dead. But wait there is hope as her fathers ghost comes in to direct Liz to where the scroll is so that she can break the curse, however she will have to fight off all of her friends who have come back to life as zombies to try and stop her. This movie features curses, black magic, ghosts, a house coming alive and a rapping zombie. Clearly the director of this movie (Sean Weathers) doesn't take himself or this movie too seriously and neither should anyone watching it. It actually has a surprisingly great score and it's good for some cheap low budget movie thrills with a few laugh out loud moments. Definitely worth checking out if you're a fan of The Twilight Zone television series or a fan of The Return of the Living Dead and Evil Dead movies.