CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV Series) House of Hoarders (2010) User Reviews

I know I left a dead body around here somewhere....

[laurent1979 · 8/10 · 23 October 2010]

Of every CSI episode made so far, none has made my skin crawl quite like this one, and I don't say that lightly. I can watch the autopsy scenes while eating food, but Nick crawling through tunnels in the junk and stepping "in" a dead body half buried in clutter was just...disgusting.

The general premise is a house owned by a woman who "hoards" things, and it's so full of piles upon piles upon piles of junk that even a decomposing body can get lost in the clutter. Naturally, as the three clean up the house, they find another decomposed body (so, so gross), which leads to questioning the owner, the family, etc. As the body count grows, so does the "ick" factor, but the case is unraveled and solved as usual.

It was great to see Nick, Sara, and Greg working a scene together (where was Catherine?), and the dialogue was good and reminiscent of the "old days." Langston's presence was minimal (yay!) which is always a good thing as I really, really can't stand him. There was quite a bit of talk about the psychology of hoarding, which got a tiny bit eye-roll-inducing toward the end for me. Otherwise, it was a solid episode that I enjoyed quite a bit.

A Sickness

[Hitchcoc · 9/10 · 10 March 2021]

Of course, there has been a cable show devoted to this condition. This is highly aberrant behavior even if we don't call it a sickness. We, as a society, hate to dispose of things. I have a little of that in me. I have books and music. I grew out of some poverty, so I see value in things. I also have hobbies which require space. That said, I can produce a rationale for most of these things. I don't keep bread wrappers, Cool Whip containers, and stuff that I may "use in the future." There is a sentiment, a love of past times that come into play. The key is, if you haven't looked at it for a couple of years or never think of it, it may be time. The lady here had lost all perspective and saw her boxes as an extension of her very body. When Nick gets so judgmental, he has no foundation, except we see, like me, he's got a bit of it in his life.

Serious Cleaning Issues

[ccthemovieman-1 · 9/10 · 21 December 2011]

Have you ever been in a house in which the occupants hoard a bunch of things? I have - once - and I never went back. It was too freaky. You could hardly find space to walk in their house.

That's the case in this episode, except a lot worse than I experienced. Included in this woman's house of junk were two dead bodies! This turns out to be a story with a lot of family "issues," starting, of course, with the woman who lives in the house. Among the dead is a daughter of the woman. She's been dead a week and doesn't smell or look too good. "Nick" is the first to discover the body. He, "Sara" and "Greg" are the main CSI agents working the case, which gets more and more bizarre as it goes along.

However, I found it pretty fascinating. What some mentally-ill people do can be interesting, I say that just as a statement of fact, certainly not deriding anyone's condition. It's actually pathetic....and very sad.

The House of Dead People

[claudio_carvalho · 7/10 · 4 October 2023]

Two LVPD officers feel a bad smell in a house and summon the CSI. The house belongs to the hoarder Mrs. Marta Santiago and while walking along the accumulated garbage, Nick steps on a decomposed body. Soon they identify the corpse with the help of Mrs. Santiago as her daughter Diana, who was helping her to clean the house due to a court order. They interview her son Julian Santiago and her social assistant Dr. Priscilla Prescott and learn that she is a hoarder, but works normally. Further, her other daughter Alisa is missing. Nick, Greg and Sara continue to process the house and find a skeleton inside the house and then Sara finds three other skeletons buried outside the house. Now they have to find who the victims are to solve the mystery.

"House of Hoarders" is a good episode of "CSI", with the story of a dysfunctional family whose mother is a hoarder. What would be a plot of an accident causing the death of one daughter while helping her mother turns into the case of a serial-killer. The way the murders are resolved are OK. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "House of Hoarders"