Don't Go in the House (1979)

Directed by

Joseph Ellison

Genre

horror film, psychological horror fiction, exploitation film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 22m

Rated

R

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 130 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man with a traumatic childhood involving his mother becomes a killer who burns women alive. The story follows his violent spree in a single house.

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What happens

Don't Go in the House is a 1979 American slasher film written and directed by Joseph Ellison, written by Ellen Hammill and Joe Masefield, and starring Dan Grimaldi. Its plot follows a disturbed man who, after suffering an abusive childhood in which his mother punished him with burning, becomes a pyromaniac and serial killer who kidnaps and burns alive any women who resemble her. Filmed in the historic Strauss Mansion in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey from February–March 1979, Don't Go in the House was released one year later in the spring of 1980, and was met with sharp criticism from film critics due to its graphic depictions of violence, particularly a sequence in which the protagonist burns a nude woman alive with a flamethrower. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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