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ThereвЂ™s an interesting change in the film where we go from disco music to rock. But the burnings especially are carried out with precision to make the scenes more effective, rather than having them come off as disingenuous, making things look terrible and campy, in the wrong sense. Sure, it still looks like a film out of the late вЂ™70s, in both good and bad ways. And going to the disco with Bobby just canвЂ™t seem to get him out of the habit.ДЇor a time without the elaborate special effects of today, Ellison does a good job in вЂ™79 making directorial choices so as to not have to focus on anything that might look less than stellar. The more women he takes home and burns to death, the crazier he gets. See Danny has issues with his mother вЂ“ the one sitting dead and dried up in his house, the one he still talks to casually, every day. And at night Danny brings women home, chains them in his little room, then sets them on fire with a flamethrower. Because down in his basement Danny decided to build a special room. But while Bobby tries to be DonnyвЂ™s buddy, the latter is busy out doing other things. A co-worker named Bobby (Robert Osth) befriends him to try and make sure Donny doesnвЂ™t blame himself for anything.

Freezing, unable to help, heвЂ™s ostracized by his boss. Working at an incinerator, Donny Kohler (Dan Grimaldi) witnesses a man almost burn to death in front of him. Underneath its meager slashburn-and-kill premise, DonвЂ™t Go In The HouseВ looks at a man damaged by the psychopathy of his mother, and also encapsulates the end of a decade into the beginning of another with the вЂ™70s fading in the rear-view while 1980 reared its head.

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It both delivers the goods any slasher demands, serving up lots of the sub-genre killing weвЂ™d expect, and also provides a decent enough view into the lead character, whose complex psychology brings about a series of destructive consequences that eventually lead to a violent catharsis. Because for a slasher horror with a gimmick this doesnвЂ™t back down.

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Quentin Tarantino for one is a huge fan of the film having played it at his film festival several times, as well as mentioning the movie had an impact on him when he first saw it. The entire concept and the plot is truly horrifying, a reason why this film has endured in the hearts of genre fans for years.

Of course, for a movie about a man who burns women to death in his basement with a flame thrower itвЂ™s natural there are gruesome scenes. And while thereвЂ™s a certain part of me which understands why some might find themselves horrified by this movie, it isnвЂ™t all shock and awe.

It ended up on the original list, though managed to avoid prosecution after certain cuts were made and the film saw a release in вЂ™87. Still banned in certain countries to this day, DonвЂ™t Go In The House was filmed in 1979 then released the following year to become one of the infamous Video Nasties. Hunter, John Hedberg, Ruth Dardick, Johanna Brushay, Darcy Shean, Mary Ann Chinn, & Lois Verkruepse. Starring Dan Grimaldi, Charles Bonet, Bill Ricci, Robert Osth, Dennis M. Screenplay by Ellison, Ellen Hammill, & Joe Masefield.

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