Good concept, poorly executed.

Don't listen to the negative reviews

Brilliant and touching

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

THIS HOUSE POSSESSED starts off w/ a couple of amorous kids trespassing on the title property. They are hastily moved along by what appears to be supernatural means! The scene switches to rock icon, Gary Straihorn (Parker Stevenson) rocking like nobody's business. Oh no! He collapses on stage! He wakes up in the hospital, screaming like only a rocker can. He needs a rest. Some time away from the rock scene, man. Doctor's orders. His nurse, Sheila (Lisa Eilbacher) massages his rock-hard muscles. Somehow, the possessed house watches all this on TV. Now, that's rock and roll! Miraculously, Gary and Sheila head for the house, though they know not why. On a whim, Gary buys the place, which has a state-of-the-art security system. Gary works on his power ballads, while Sheila massages his forehead. The house watches. A Raggedy Ann doll attacks! Sort of. A scenic bike ride ensues. We're introduced to "The Rag Lady". Back at the hacienda, odd occurrences... occur. When Gary's rockin' "lady friend", Tanya (Shelley Smith) shows up unannounced, the house objects. More power ballads reverberate like curdling mayonnaise, while Sheila cries. A very interesting shower-bath takes place. Love blooms for a rocker and his nurse. Fiery death -finally- results, when a librarian stops by. Send more librarians, says I! Let the mayhem commence! There's a big revelation toward the end, but by then our will to live has ebbed. We are one power ballad away from eternity now. Aloha. Barry Corbin is the Sheriff and Slim Pickins is Gary's manager. Watch for Amanda Wyss (A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET) in her tiny role at the beginning...

A pop singer suffers a nervous breakdown and decides to vacation out in the country, but not before recovering from a fall onstage at the last performance. He takes the attending nurse from the hospital he was recuperating at as a personal nurse, as they slowly fall in love at this remote mansion set in the outskirts of a small town.The film begins in a rather humorous vain, as a couple decide to 'make out' on the lawn, at which point a hose extends out like a serpent to spray them down, like one would dogs.The House is indeed alive with some presence, using the resident cameras as veritable eyes; so when the crooner and his love interest move in, they become the subject of rumors throughout the small town, apparently, there were some rather tragic deaths in the house's history, but when the local librarian comes to deliver some interesting documentation, she is invariably crushed to death at the front gates, like the great giant metal teeth of a hell mouth, followed by the manager {with a cutting reflection}, and even intermittent lover Tanya {"there's nothing like a hot blood shower to help get the cobwebs out"...} goes insane.It is a sort of 'coming home' for Sheila, with the incessant sensation of deja-vu. Sheila reveals that she has no recollection of her existence prior to seven, but "The Rag Lady" knows*, a classic characterization of the 'crazy cat lady' type who lives in a shack filled with garbage... and cats. But she apparently knows too much for The House's liking, divulging her own involvement in its history, gets a scalding dip for her trouble.The House also does not seem to like the fact that Gary and Lisa are to be married, and refuses to let them out, complete with locking doors, windows, freezing air conditioning, suffocating heat, slammed gates, breathing walls, and the serpentine hose. ∞_____________ * Played by none other than Joan Bennett, who is recognized as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard of Dark Shadows, in quite a role reversal, displaying quite a range.

A haunted house where the haunting manifests most of the time through the computer that controls nearly every part of the house... fascinating. Yet the haunting is so powerful it can kill/watch/manipulate people miles away, and it seems the force inside the house has feelings, since it's main aim is to bring the person it loves into it's power. The script of this movie is highly original and most of the scenes are really great - the "bloody shower" scene or the very atmospheric scenes at the beginning, when the house watches the people through some monitors at night...just sitting there and waiting... - this movie really gets in your mind and stays there. Throw in a very good performance by the female leads and a convincing performance by the male lead, a really great score that helps much to enhance the thick atmosphere created by the extremely good directing, editing and photography, and here you have it: a really outstanding haunted house movie! One reviewer here criticized the use of "suddenly opening doors" in this movie: Well, yes, at one point a door opens itself, but since the house is alive a lot of stuff moves itself here, so you can't criticize that, unless you want to criticize that the movie doesn't need a lot of blood and gore to create tension... Yes, the fire at the end looks not so good at the indoor shots, but, since most of this seems to be shot outside a studio in a real (great-looking) house, I guess they just couldn't burn this great house down! But just look at that cool "breathing-wall" shot! And maybe they were low on budget, too, and if this is true, then it makes the movie even more greater, since to create such a great movie with a low budget is really a masterpiece!

I remember I saw this movie when I was a child. The directing is very good, as is the photography, the editing and the music. The music is fabulous. The strange synthesizer effects, the usage of a special musical theme for some of the main characters. Even the opening theme from the first minutes of the movie is great!! The story is also very good. This movie is really a must-see if you like haunted-house movies.