Roger Cobb (Willaim Katt, reprising his role from the first film for as long as it takes to get his paycheck) is now married to someone named Kelly and they have a daughter named Laurel. There's no mention of his first wife, Sandy, or his son Jimmy. They visit the old Cobb house after Roger's father dies - this must be a side universe, the universe where no one gives two shits about continuity - and have to deal with Burke, the stepbrother who keeps trying to get Roger to sell out on his promise to their father to never sell the house.

This isn't the actual house from House, so that's already a strike against this one. But if the interior of the house looks familiar to you, that's because the same sets were used in The People Under the Stairs.

Were you excited to see William Katt? Well, he dies around five minutes in, the victim of a car crash that leaves his daughter in a wheelchair - the kind of wheelchairs that old ladies roll around in and leave in their bedrooms to haunt you (see Burnt Offerings). Like do they even make wicker wheelchairs any more?

Burke has the mafia making him try and take the house, as they want to dump illegal waste there. Their leader is a little person who needs a machine to remove all of the phlegm in his throat, I shit you not.

Roger is still in the house and various magical Native Americans are kindly enough to protect Roger's family. Oh yeah - Denny Dillon, who was on HBO's Dream On and the disastrous Jean Doumanian produced season of Saturday Night Live is in this as a maid.

I like one scene in here a lot, where snakes take over the minds of two mafia guys and they see one another as human snakes. The practical effects are great here, yet wasted for what's a really quick scene.

There's also a pizza that comes to life and sings a song before being tossed in a trash compactor. This scene is Troll 2 level inanity and stupidity. It's also one of the few good parts of this slog of a motion picture.

PS - That's Kane Hodder's face in the pizza.

This is one of the late 80's/early 90's movies that has no real handle on when it should be a comedy and when it should be horror. If it was an Italian film, that would be forgiven because there'd be loads of gore.

You've seen worse movies - and worse House movies - than House IV. But in a world packed with strange new films to discover and old favorites to enjoy again and again, let me be the one to do the watching for you. You don't really need to see this.

This probably is a parallel universe where the character Roger Cobb is being played, I mean looks the same way the one from House (1) did. Apart from the looks (though obviously older) and the name, there seem to be no connection the two have. Well they both inherit a House ... a different one at that.

But as all House movies were different (in plot and different in tone when it comes to the "unofficial" House 3),I guess this just plays into that. And maybe it was just to mess with us a little bit. Also red herring, if you know what happens fairly early on in the movie with that "known" character anyway. The tone is back to comedy horror, but seems even sillier than the rest. And for some reason the plot holes in this seem more apparent than in the other movies. Or maybe we didn't care with them? Tough to say and overall decent effort ... for completionist a must I reckon

Man, I hate the `House'-series (and yet, I've seen all four of them…go figure!). This franchise never really could decide whether it wanted to bring horror…or comedy. This fourth entry isn't an exception on that. For one thing, this film introduce us to a family dramatically torn apart by a terrible car-accident and for another, it adds absurd elements like bloodthirsty pizza's (!),dogs with lampshades attached to their head and comic-book style villains. What's the deal? Are we supposed to be scared or bring out the beer and laugh? The plot is dreadfully lame involves ghost-house, build on a spiritual Indian ground…Oh, how original. Yet, if these were the only problems House 4 suffered from, it would still be more or less reasonable. The biggest letdown lies in the entirely illogical structure. I don't know if this ever occurred to cast and crew but…their story doesn't make sense at all! By the way…SPOILERS will follow here, in case you care. At first, the `spirits' of the house seem to turn against Kelly and almost even force her to kill her daughter, while suddenly and for unexplained reasons, these exact same spirits start helping her in fighting the bad guys. Did the miserable, two-minute séance cause this? If so, I must say that is very, very poor! Dreadful film…dreadful series…avoid them all!