House (1986)

This is a highly innovative, imaginative and inventive low budget horror, suspense, thriller, mystery, comedy movie from the 80s.

I remember watching it a long time back and it has stayed with me since. Some days ago I found it on youtube and decided to try it out again. And I must say, it still worked. 

Even in today's time the film has a very different take on the horror genre. And it's highly imaginative! The most unique thing about this is that it is about a house which has doors and passages that lead you into a different past, time and world, where there are flying monsters, creepy crawlies, and horrors from one's past. 

At one point you open the door and you see a closet on the other side, moments later you open the same door and it leads see right into the Vietnam jungle! Another door leads you to the very edge of a cliff with the roaring sea and large, jagged rocks below, while the very next moment it opens into another room. The sharp tools in the house come alive at night, along with the dead animals hung on the walls. One second you are talking to your beautiful wife, and the next moment she is an ugly monster with a creepy voice (but I guess that's true with many real wives as well, so not much of an imagination there).

  

William Katt plays Roger Cobb and is a renowned novelist trying to write his new novel about his terrible experiences in the Vietnam war. His son has vanished mysteriously and this has been one of the reasons why he is living separately from his wife. He's still haunted by the past - the Vietnam war and his missing son.

The movie begins when Roger's aunt commits suicide and leaves him the house where his son had mysteriously vanished. 

Roger moves into his creepy aunt's house to finish his novel and maybe get closure about his missing son. In short flashbacks we find out that he lived in the house once along with the aunt, his wife, and son. Roger still believes that his son is alive and his disappearance hes something to do with this mysterious house.

Soon he discovers that the House is a portal between the real world and his past. 

As Roger starts to battle the house he is continuously interrupted by nosy and pretty neighbor Tanya, and not so pretty but equally nose neighbor Harold.

All these elements combine to give an old school horror film that still works in today's big budget CGI lead time. 

So if you are in the mood for some time travel, and something different, check this House down below. You will find the link to the full film here.

House

House full movie