Mom, do you ever get that burning feeling?Two kinds of movies I love are Slashers and unintentionally hilarious films. Luckily, this low-budget Psycho rip-off fits both types.Despite the scary poster, this movie is also complete void of frights, full of hilarious ADR'ing and so much padding, it incredibly makes the 82-minute runtime feel like three hours. But, hey, at least both titles ("The Burning" which I saw in the opening credits and "Don't Go in the House" everywhere else) fit. Not-David Banner was burned by his mother as a child. Literally. So, with the help of some odd fairy voiceover, he decides to burn a few bridges, er females, once his mother passes. Well, that seems to be the main idea here, though it's only about 15% of the movie. The rest is Not-David Banner not hulking out, but very much trying to.The film is almost a waste if not for the laughs the movie wasn't intending to invoke. I found myself cracking up at most of the bad dubbing (SEE: the church scene and marvel at how many words are spoken and how many you actually hear) and outbursts from most of the characters (SEE: the second Priest scene at the door, "I made your tea! Drink your tea!" and anything Not-David Banner says in private.)Wish I could recommend it more, as stated, I love Slashers, but this one was so little slasher and much more outbursts. Both the yelling kind from the movie and the laughter from the audience.***Final thoughts: Day 1 of 2018 starts off with not a bang, but a yelp. Just glad *I* don't have that burning feeling. ...yet.

****SPOILERS**** The film "Don't go in the House" is more of a statement against child abuse then the slasher or in this case burner horror movie that its comes at first across as. The star and psycho in the film garbage incinerator worker Donny Kholer, Dan Grimaldi, has been fascinated with fire ever since his religious fanatic mom, Ruth Dardick, used to hold the eight year old "Donny's" arms over a lit stove to burn out the evil that she felt was inside him. Now all grown up and crazy as ever Don gets his chance to get even with his mom, who just passed away, and the world for what she as well as it, in his sick mind, did to him.Searching out pretty women who's cars broke down or who need a lift home Don kidnaps them and later hangs then on meat hooks in his house and with a flame thrower, that he bought at the local Army/Navy surplus store, burns them alive. It doesn't take that long for a guilt ridden Don to realize what a monster he really is and seeks out his local Catholic Priest Father Gerritty, Ralph D. Bowman, for help before he does, by then he already murdered some half dozen young women, any more damage. Despite all the efforts by Father Gerritty and his good friend and fellow incinerator worker Bobby Tuttle, Robert Osth, Don's obsession with both murder and revenge, against his dead mother, gets the best of him. But in the end it's Don's many victims who untimely end up getting the best of him in what turned out to be a "Bonfire of the Insanities".Newcomer Dan Girlamdi looking like a young Dustin Hoffman does an excellent job as the crazed and as well abused, by his mom, Don Kohler who despite his addiction to murder & violence still invokes sympathy from the audience. This is done by the film-makers inter cutting his being abused as a child to balance off the crimes that he commits as an adult. This is not to excuse what Don does but give us an insight to his mind-set and how abusive children in extreme cases, like Don, become abusers themselves. And it does that in the very last scene in the movie where a future Don Kohler is brutally abused by his mom,while watching a news report on TV about the present Don Kohler, who in fact is very possibly turning him into the monster that he's to later become!

A pyromaniac snaps after the death of his abusively religious mother and begins kidnapping women to burn up and add to his macabre collection. He lives in a huge mansion and is able to hide his secret, however he wants to have friends and goes out to a disco with a co-worker, only to reveal his psychopathic urges. This movie was made during the Disco craze, so the soundtrack featured a ton of great retro disco songs, the two most prominent being 'Shocked by Boogie Lightning' and 'Late Night Surrender'. The acting was all relatively good, and the plot is original; rather than your typical ax-wielding slasher, Donald the pyromaniac puts on a huge Safe-Suit and kills with a flamethrower. It's a pretty good movie, great to watch on a Friday night or at a party.

This movie is about as good as it can be. The acting is all right, I myself finding the performance of Dan Grimaldi quite well done. There are even some generally frightening moments I enjoyed. The score by Richard Einhorn is also pretty interesting, quite menacing when it gathers full strength. Problem is the film's story borrows somewhat from Hitchcock's "Psycho" that preceded this film by well over two decades. Technically speaking, the lead characters from these two films are quite the same in motive and disposition; difference (the most important thing to keep in mind) is that Anthony Perkins was allowed subtly and mystery to his performance as Norman Bates. This film is so out right with its villain there's not much mystery, just violence.However, I still find this movie a hoot to watch, though by no means a horror classic.