While driving through a secondary road for a meeting with a marriage counselor in Montgomery, Alabama, the estranged couple Jack Singleton (Reynaldo Rosales) and Stephanie Singleton (Heidi Dippold) ask for directions to a Police Officer (Michael Madsen) but they have a car accident with a metal part left on the road. Jack realizes that his Mustang has two flat tires and they see an abandoned Beamer parked on the road with the head lights on and flat tires.

Jack and Steph walks in the rain seeking for help. They see an inn where they meet the businessman and owner of the Beamer, Randy Messsarue (J.P. Davis),and his fiancée Leslie Taylor (Julie Ann Emery). Out of the blue, the weird owners Pete ( Lew Temple),his mother Betty (Leslie Easterbrook) and Stewart (Bill Moseley) welcome the guests and invite them to have dinner. Sooner they are chased by the owner and the maniac The Tin Man and they find that they are trapped in the evil house. Further, for surviving, they lean that they must kill one of them in accordance with The Tin Man's rules. But the mysterious girl Susan (Alana Bale) befriends Jack and advises that if anyone kills, he or she will definitely belong to The Tin Man.

The underrated "House" is a surprisingly entertaining horror tale. The creepy story is not a masterpiece, but I was misled believing that it would be another torture film and not a supernatural thriller. Leslie Easterbrook, in the role of Betty, and Lew Temple, in the role of Pete, are very scary and creepy. The plot is not a masterpiece and does not explain well the presence of Susan, but I liked this movie. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Jogos de um Psicopata" ("Games of a Psycopath")

Okay, according to most of the reviews I've encountered as well as the description on the back of the rental DVD, "House" is a prime example of a Catholic horror movie. I have no idea what that means, so let's just ignore that, shall we? To me, "House" is just another standard Haunted House outing – like there are thirteen in a dozen – and not a very terrific one, for that matter. Probably the Catholic aspect relates to the fact the titular house is occupied by people that are purely evil and that the entering victims are to be punished for the sins they committed in their pasts. That may be so, but if that is the case then "House" definitely isn't the first Christian movie even made and the book on which the film is based – written by Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti – probably wasn't the first in its kind, either. Anyway, I really can't claim "House" is an unendurable film. The pacing is good, the scenery and filming locations provide a handful of genuinely creepy moments and the cast contains a few names that certainly appeal to all horror-loving audiences (like Bill Moseley and Michael Madsen). To story on itself isn't too bad, neither, just derivative and very predictable. A continuously bickering couple on their way to marriage counseling get an accident off-road and stranded in a mysterious and ominous looking mansion. Together with another stranded couple, they acquaint the creepy hillbilly owners and learn about the legendary Tin Man who is said to terrorize whoever enters the place. The couples receive the message they either have to deliver one corpse or they will all die before sunrise, but the house also holds more surprises for them in store. Through visions and hallucinations, the reluctant tenants are confronted with crimes they committed or accidents they caused in their pasts. The film contains surprisingly little gore and practically no sleaze. The house itself looks utter cool and it's enough to photograph the place from several different angles in order to raise the suspense. Apparently "House" was entirely filmed in Poland, so don't go looking around to find it. Michael Madsen and Leslie Easterhook extremely overact, whilst Bill Moseley is his good old-fashioned maniacal self again. Not a bad film, just overly clichéd and forgettable.

In rural Alabama, two couples find themselves in a fight for survival. Running from a maniac (The Tin Man) bent on killing them, they flee deep into the woods and seek refuge in a house. They soon realize the killer has purposely lured them to this house and that they are now trapped.

The best thing about this film? An incredible genre cast: Michael Madsen, Leslie Easterbrook, Bill Moseley, Lew Temple and even Lance Henriksen. Director Robby Henson's work has also attracted such acclaimed actors Billy Bob Thornton, Patricia Arquette, Patricia Clarkson, Chris Cooper, William DeVane and Kris Kristofferson. This is not one of the better films, though.

We have terrible acting (especially from the country-singing wife),awful direction, and cinematography that seems obsessed with blue /green coloration for no reason. Moseley plays his usual self, and audiences are getting sick of it.

Although it is hard to say for sure, one assumes the novel by Frank E. Peretti and Ted Dekker has to be better than the film it became. The novel is apparently Christian fiction, though it seems odd with such lines as, "God came to my house and I killed him."