Product Description

Within every wall of her home, someoneor somethinghas been watching. A taut and horrifying thriller, Christina's House takes a hot, young cast, including Brad Rowe (Body Shots, "Wasteland") and Brendan Fehr (The Forsaken, Final Destination), into its dark innards where mysterious murders keep claiming its guests. Charged with electrifying performances and breathlessly fast-paced plot twists, Christina's House invites you in, locks its doors behind you and scares you half to death! On the surface, everything about Christina's (Allison Lange) life seems perfectly normal. With an over-protective dad (John Savage), a video game junkie of a little brother (Lorne Stewart), a capable handyman (Rowe) and a new boyfriend (Fehr) around, she has little to worry about. Little, that is, until dead bodies start popping up! Now, Christina must figure out whoor whatis lurking within the walls of her home, turning every room into a death chamber and calling for her as its next victim!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #74478 in DVD
• Brand: TCFHE/MGM
• Released on: 2001-10-23
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 97 minutes

Customer Reviews

Not so bad at all...
I rented this dvd hoping for a cheesefest and I was not dissappointed. Honestly I expected it to be terrible, as good cheese is hard to find, but really it wasn't too bad at all. The movie starts with a murder in the old house so I wasn't under the impression that it was haunted but that someone, or perhaps something, is living behind the walls. You don't know who it is or why they're doing what they're doing, but the list of supects is long and twisted: the horney/violently jealous boyfriend, the apparently incestuously minded/hothead father, the weird/weird handyman, the angry/weird sheriff, or just some Jason Voorhees type. The daughter just thinks she's going crazy. The movie deftly implicates all of these while at the same time deflecting it. The acting while not great is definately on the upper level of the B-eschelon. The story is well told and has some interesting, quirky elements. I recommend it.

Flawed... but Worth a Look
"Christina's House" is an old fashioned killer on the loose movie. It's set in a small town and avoids trying to be a hip "Scream" style slasher film.
Christina, her dad, and younger brother live in a creepy old house. Apparently someone else is secretly living there as well, killing anyone it can and disposing of the bodies before they can be discovered. Pretty creepy stuff, as anyone who's ever lived in a spooky old house themselves can attest.
The film moves along rather slowly, taking it's time to build suspense. The cast is above average as well.
Aside from a few loose ends, this is a relatively solid chiller. It's a nice change of pace from the high tech, fast paced horror films that look great, but are devoid of any real scares. "Christina's House" reminds us why we liked horror films in the first place.

Absolutely wretched!
There are some pretty stupid movies out there that still manage to entertain. B-movies can be fun, and everyone's seen a movie that at least hits a few high points, maybe even reaching camp status. This movie is none of the above. I don't think I've seen a worse film all year. There is absolutely nothing to recommend in this movie. I looked.

First off, the plot is horribly trite and predictable.

There's a scary haunted house that makes weird noises while the hesitant heroine is in the bath. It also makes weird noises at other times. The fact that it's an old house obviously never crosses anybody's mind. In case you missed the whole noises plotline, the heroine shrieks that the house is weird and makes noises about four times. That's for all us idiots who didn't get it the first three times she spazzed about it.

That's it for plot. Now onto characters. Anyone who's seen a few horror movies knows them all by heart.

There's the main character, the Hesitant Virgin Who's Afraid to Go the Whole Way (tm).

The boyfriend: He pressures, he's scary and slightly threatening, but of course he's one of the most popular boys in school.

Then there's the usual cast of secondary characters. The best friend who inevitably dies, the misunderstood father, the mentally unbalanced mother. A mysterious (but attractive) man that the virgin is unwittingly attracted to.

If this sounds like any one of a hundred horror movies (with Scream heading up the list), it's because it is.

But while Scream was innovative and entertaining in that it turned it's cliches around, this movie doesn't even bother. And while Scream was actually scary, this movie is anything but. There was literally no tension in this film. It's horribly unreal, and very predictable.

Maybe even this movie could have been saved with a decent cast. Unfortunately, they didn't have it. Brad Rowe is horribly miscast, and Brendan Fehr is wasted here (unlike in The Forsaken). Allison Lange isn't even worth mentioning. Her father (John Savage) growls menacingly at every turn, but only seems to get more cheesy as the movie (finally) rolls to a stop.

I strongly urge anyone thinking of renting or buying this to reconsider. I'm upset I wasted an hour and a half on it.