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Stars: Dan Grimaldi, Charles Bonet, Bill Ricci, Ruth Dardick | Written by Joseph Ellison, Ellen Hammill, Joe Masefield | Directed by Joseph Ellison

One of the many films that were tangled up in the video nasty debacle of the early 80s, Don’t Go In The House tells the story of Donny, a somewhat disturbed man who lives under the thumb of his overbearing and sadistic (in the sense that she likes to burn his arms on the stove) mother. That is until his mother passes away and Donny’s already disturbed psyche finally cracks. Living only with the voices in his head, Donny seeks out female companionship, only his idea of bringing a girl home to meet mother entails tying them up in his steel-walled burning chamber!

Don’t Go In the House is a film clearly inspired by Psycho, yet it shares very familiar traits with William Lustig’s Maniac and De...

Hey everyone! We’re back with a whole new batch of home media releases that will be arriving on Tuesday, and it includes quite an eclectic array of titles that genre fans are going to want to check out. If you missed out on the previous edition, Arrow is releasing the Standard Special Edition of Legend this week which is absolutely worth checking out, and for all you cult film fans, Severin Films is showing some love to Don’t Go Into the House with their Special Edition presentation.

Kino Lorber is resurrecting Alberto De Martino’s The Antichrist on Blu-ray this Tuesday, and if you’re looking to catch up on some recent horror, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City and Student Body are both being released on multiple formats as well.

Other releases for February 8th include Santo: El Enmascarado De Plata Box Set, Bloody Mary, Hiruko the Goblin,...

L.A based cult film distributors Severin Films today announced a duo of Video Nasties from the dawn of the home video revolution for release in January of 2022. First up is Joseph Ellison's notorious fire hazard, Don't Go In the House, one of the sleaziest, most mean spirited of the exploitation boom of the late '70s. Also on the docket is Peter Maris' debut film, Delirium, a bonkers vigilante epic making its disc debut in this brand new restoration from the only 35mm print in existence!  Check out the teaser trailer and full details for both releases below....

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Having a rotten mother will fuck you up.Twenty years after Mrs. Bates' incessant badgering and criticizing of a weak willed Norman turned him into a psychotic terror, Joseph Ellison's Don't Go in the House unleashed another unhinged mama's boy in Disco Donny. Arrow Video's budget label, Arrowdrome, brings this nasty little underseen gem to UK DVD uncut for the first time. A blatant riff on Alfred Hitchcock's adaptation of Robert Bloch's Psycho (itself inspired by the gruesome real-life story of Ed Gein), Don't Go in the House exceeds it's predecessor in terms of blood and gore by a country mile, while throwing in bits and pieces of other more contemporary films like Saturday Night Fever. Don't Go in the House is definitely one that every...

Reviewed by Chris Wright, MoreHorror.com

Directed By: Joseph Ellison

Written By: Joseph Ellison, Ellen Hammill, & Joe Masefield

Starring: Dan Grimaldi (Donny Kohler), Robert Osth (Tuttle), Bill Ricci (Vito), Charles Bonet (Ben), David Brody (Tony), Ralph Bowman (Father Gerritty), Nikki Collins (Farrah), Johanna Brushay (Kathy), Gloria Szymkovicz (Sylvia), Louise Grimaldi (Barbara), Tom Brumberger (Alfred)

I’ve heard a lot of things about this movie and critics panned this movie when it debuted for its inherent violence and child abuse. “Don’t Go in the House” was a pleasant surprise at how good it was for a theme taken out of the Hitchcock classic “Psycho.” In the UK, the movie was immediately put on their 80s “Video Nasty” list and subsequently banned from the country entirely. The movie was released by Media Home Entertainment and Video Treasures as well as a few DVD’s in the last ten years. The disturbing...

Back in November, after having written Movie Poster of the Week for almost three years, I decided to start a Tumblr as a place to display all those orphan posters I loved: the ones I couldn’t find all that much to say about, that didn’t fit any current trend or personal train of thought but which needed to be seen. It seemed natural to call it Movie Poster of the Day and so I decided I would try to post just one single poster a day, ideally something unfamiliar yet worthy of attention. In February, Flavorpill declared Movie Poster of the Day one of the “Essential Tumblrs for film fans” which persuaded me it was worth continuing and over the past eight months I have somehow managed to post something every single day. In the process I seem to have amassed over 15,000 followers on Tumblr.

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Made during the onset of the slasher boom in the early Eighties, Joseph Ellison’s Don’t Go In The House exhibits many traits of the then burgeoning subgenre; namely gory effects, misogynistic violence, flashbacks revealing a prior trauma/instigating event, point-of-view stalking scenes and a sexually repressed killer driven insane by a monstrous matriarch.

The film sets itself apart from other slashers of its time by providing more insight into what makes the killer at the centre of its downbeat narrative tick. Donnie (Dan...

Don’T Go In The House

Stars: Dan Grimaldi, Charles Bonet, Bill Ricci, Ruth Dardick | Written by Joseph Ellison, Ellen Hammill, Joe Masefield | Directed by Joseph Ellison

One of the many films that was tangled up in the video nasty debacle of the early 80s, ArrowDrome’s release of Don’t Go In The House sees the sleaze-fest released in its uncut form for the first time since VHS certification was made mandatory here in the UK. The film tells the story of Donny, a somewhat disturbed man who lives under the thumb of his overbearing and sadistic (in the sense that she likes to burn his arms on the stove) mother. That is until his mother shuffles off the mortal coil and Danny’s already disturbed psyche finally cracks. Living only with the voices in his head, Donny seeks out female companionship, only Donny’s idea of bringing a...