William Katt may be best known for playing the Greatest American Hero, but he's also the hero of this franchise.
One thing nice about someone like me obsessed with going through entire series is that I can tell you which are worth watching. So, without hesitation, you should just watch the first House and skip to this "final" chapter. The middle one or two, depending upon who you listen to, aren't worth a step inside.
Not to sound too confusing in the previous paragraph, this is sorta both part III and IV. Following House II, The Horror Story came out and in other countries, it was labelled as House III. For no American reason and not to confuse those foreigners, I suppose, they changed this title to House IV.
Anyways, this wasn't a great movie, but it was fairly decent and a nice conclusion to the original, something the other sequel(s) totally skipped.
Katt's back and alongside his on-screen wife, they elevate this movie far past what it should've been. Cobb (Katt) gets into a horrific car accident leaving his wife and daughter (??) a house Cobb's brother desperately wants. Well, guess what? The house has ideas of its own.
I put the (??) above due to the gender-swapping of the child. In the original, and the main premise of the first one, Cobb is mourning the loss of his SON. He spends the entire movie looking for him and seeing him around that film's haunted house. So, I guess the child got a sex change over the years?
I only bring this up as one of the most blatant mistakes or dumb ideas in horror movie franchises, whichever it was for the writer/crew: mistake or dumb idea. I mean, even Katt himself isn't dumb enough to miss this error and probably said: "Wait a minute guys. *I* was in the original and my child was a HE!"
Anyways, the movie wasn't scary and it took too long to get to the goofiness the series, or at least 1 and 2 were known for and when it did, it was too little/too late/didn't mesh with the rest.
Still, it's worth a watch to conclude the series until it's rebooted.
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Final thoughts: Speaking of gender-swapping, the series' producer/owner, Sean S. Cunningham has expressed a strong desire to direct/remake/reboot his franchise, but now with the Greatest American Heroine as the protagonist. Not that it really matters who enters the house to search for their child, so I am uncertain why that's such a big deal for him to announce. Eh, I'm curious to enter the first House again.
One thing nice about someone like me obsessed with going through entire series is that I can tell you which are worth watching. So, without hesitation, you should just watch the first House and skip to this "final" chapter. The middle one or two, depending upon who you listen to, aren't worth a step inside.
Not to sound too confusing in the previous paragraph, this is sorta both part III and IV. Following House II, The Horror Story came out and in other countries, it was labelled as House III. For no American reason and not to confuse those foreigners, I suppose, they changed this title to House IV.
Anyways, this wasn't a great movie, but it was fairly decent and a nice conclusion to the original, something the other sequel(s) totally skipped.
Katt's back and alongside his on-screen wife, they elevate this movie far past what it should've been. Cobb (Katt) gets into a horrific car accident leaving his wife and daughter (??) a house Cobb's brother desperately wants. Well, guess what? The house has ideas of its own.
I put the (??) above due to the gender-swapping of the child. In the original, and the main premise of the first one, Cobb is mourning the loss of his SON. He spends the entire movie looking for him and seeing him around that film's haunted house. So, I guess the child got a sex change over the years?
I only bring this up as one of the most blatant mistakes or dumb ideas in horror movie franchises, whichever it was for the writer/crew: mistake or dumb idea. I mean, even Katt himself isn't dumb enough to miss this error and probably said: "Wait a minute guys. *I* was in the original and my child was a HE!"
Anyways, the movie wasn't scary and it took too long to get to the goofiness the series, or at least 1 and 2 were known for and when it did, it was too little/too late/didn't mesh with the rest.
Still, it's worth a watch to conclude the series until it's rebooted.
***
Final thoughts: Speaking of gender-swapping, the series' producer/owner, Sean S. Cunningham has expressed a strong desire to direct/remake/reboot his franchise, but now with the Greatest American Heroine as the protagonist. Not that it really matters who enters the house to search for their child, so I am uncertain why that's such a big deal for him to announce. Eh, I'm curious to enter the first House again.