The tyranist's thoughts
How could I not rent a movie with this bad a title? I mean really, there are thousands of movies, but only a few that have so laughable a title that it doesn't matter what is on the cover or written on the back, it is a must rent.
So a bunch of college students (all in medical school apparently) head up into the hills above an anonymous California town to check out a house that one of them wants to buy so that he can run a clinic for children. Of course, the house has a past. A violent past. Well, people start to die, which shouldn't surprise anyone.
So your brother is Scott Baio and you need to earn a little cash, how would you do it?
Patterned after any number of early '80s slashers, this one lacks originality as well as production values. The cast is mediocre and there are times when it is apparent that they made up the dialogue as they went because they needed filler. The special effects are low-budget and practically non-existent. For every two deaths, one occurs on screen and even those weren't anything to write home about. There just isn't much to this one that makes me want to recommend it. Except that title.
Oh, as you go through the movie, nearly every character is killed or at least threatened properly. It left me wondering who had done it all. In most good horror movies, they seem to realize that never finding out is scarier than finding out it was someone only kind of related to the story at all. Unfortunately, this isn't good. They actually came up with a character to be the killer, but it was so ludicrous I actually laughed out loud. Then they followed that up with a super-lame sequel setup. I don't suppose they were trying to make the movie even worse with that ending, but they managed.