Sweet House of Horrors

Saturday, July 5, 2008

Well, we did a lot of celebrating this weekend, what with finishing moving in, and the Fourth of July, and Shenan's graduation party, so it seemed appropriate that we throw some bad horror movies in there somewhere. What can I say, we love that shit.

We actually also put on a giallo called Seven Blood Stained Orchids (great title!), but it seemed pretty boring and we all pretty much stopped paying attention within the first half hour. So I'm not counting it.

Some time in the early 80's, Lucio Fulci stopped making cheap, kinda awful horror movies that never-the-less had some sort of effective, unique vision to them, and just started making cheap, completely awful horror movies that are borderline unwatchable. Sweet House of Horrors sucks every bit as much as Demonia, Aenigma and Voices From the Beyond, which luckily also means that it's good for a few laughs. I especially liked the part when the bad guy (the same actor who played Ripper in Demons) screams "I have to murder you! I have to murder you both!" while killing some people. Thanks for announcing that, dude.

What's weird here is that the movie starts off with a really violent scene, but then slowly becomes less violent as it goes along, eventually becoming more like some stupid kids movie than a horror film. I have no idea what the hell Fulci was going for.