The House on Tombstone Hill (1989), dir. James Riffel, Troma Entertainment
Comedy and horror can work, as Sam Raimi can attest but brother if you don't get the mixture right you can have a real mess.
Mark (Douglas Gibson) and his buddies have just bought a house. Yup, a speck of paint and this crumbling old farm house will be party central!
At least until Bob (Victor Verhaeghe) finds a tombstone in the backyard. He smashes it, because with it gone they have a few more feet for beer! This annoys Abigal Leatherbee (also Gibson) to no end given that was her tombstone.
From there Abigail proceeds to murder the bejeesus out everyone. Who will survive and what will be left of them; and more importantly will we care?
Not really? The character are flat. They can't even give them at least one characteristic. No practical joker, no good girl/bad girl, etc. The house is completely sealed off, except when it isn't!
It's clearly trying for an Evil Dead feel but no Bruce Campbell, so clearly this isn't going to work.
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