House (1985)
7/10
War is trouble
10 September 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Many films have been made around the theme of war (Saving Private Ryan, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket), all of these works have one main message. War destroys humanity. Steve Miner's film House (1985) is no exception. In my opinion, the monsters depicted in the film are a metaphor for the brutality of war. At the epicenter of the events is the writer Roger Cobb, who is writing an autobiographical novel about the Vietnam War and shares his military experience with the readers. Roger is having a hard time. He lost his little son, his wife left him and his aunt killed herself. Kobe returns to the very house where his aunt killed herself to write the paper. As it turns out, this place is haunted by ghosts and monsters. In the end, the main character defeats these creatures and gets his son back. I think Roger's wife should have been in more scenes. The humor of the film is average. This work is directly related to the Friday the 13th franchise. Director Steve Miner directed the second and third parts of Friday the 13th. Producer Sean Cunningham directs Jason Voorhees' original feature. House made a name for itself in the film world thanks to 1985. After that, he made films like (warlock, halloween 20 years later, lake palcid) I think this work deservedly remained outside the mainstream galvanizing, because the jokes in the film are not funny. However, this documentary is one of the archetypes of horror-comedy eclecticism. But the original script belonged entirely to the horror genre, with no comedic elements.
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