Don't Go In The House

Don't Go In The House  (1980)
"Special Uncut Edition!"
Ratio: 1.81:1 (16/9)
English and German lang (2.0)
83 mins
Extras: Trailer
Label: Eyecatcher Movies (DE)

Presented here as Das Haus Der Lebenden Leichen.

Dir: Joseph Ellison (who only made one other film "Joey" (1986)

A slasher film about a victim of child abuse (Dan Grimaldi) who grows up to become a maniacal construction worker. He stalks women at discos, takes them home, then hangs them upside-down in a special steel-walled room and sets them on fire. Written by Ørnås

Donald Kohler is a young who, as a child, was severley burned by his sadistic/overbearing mother as a cruel means of discipline and punishment. After years of social estrangement pass, Donald comes home to his mother after an accident at the local incinerator, only to find that his mother died in her sleep. Now released from her possession, Donald's mind teeters around dangerous activities in order to ease his repression; particularly searching out for women (blondes or burnettes, just like his mother) in random mundane locations, bringing them home, hanging them rightside up in a personally installed steel plated room and burning them alive with a flamethrower

Great study of deadly obsession!, 22 September 2003

"Don't Go in the House" is an obscure early 80's horror film that seems to be forgotten by many horror fans.The film is well-made and slickly directed by Joseph Ellison,a talented musician and a screenwriter.Donny Kohler is a tormented young man.His mother tortured him by holding his bare arms over a gas burning stove.He grows up to be a psycho who delights in burning young women with a flamethrower inside his steel paneled bedroom crematorium.The film is filled with truly sick atmosphere and there is one of the most sadistic burning killings ever captured on screen.The underlying theme of child abuse is also taboo-breaking."Don't Go in the House" is often trashed by some politically correct people-still it beats most of the crap being put out today.Highly recommended.