Where there's a buck to be made, it will be, and a popular film will always spawn sequels. They don't care, just knock 'em out. The first film looks like a masterpiece compared to the following three, which shows how poor the sequels are. they are not the worst sequels in the world ( with the exception of house 2) but they fail on all levels.The second was childish schlock, the third a "shocker" type film saved only by Lance Henriksen. The fourth was ok but gaping plot holes ruin it. 1. The ghosts seem to like the owners and want them to stay, helping them out in the end to defeat the baddies, yet through the whole film they seem to terrorise them. I can understand Roger Cobb's hand coming up through the spilt ashes can seem like horror when in fact he is showing he is around in spirit, but the blood in the shower and " get out or die" on the steam covered bathroom mirror? This is a huge contradiction. Do the bad guys at the chemical company get convicted? I'm assuming the step brothers confession might lead there but it's not clear.I didn't like the Roger Cobb death. I kind of feel after all he went through in house 1, to then die prematurely, and so horribly in house 4, was kind of a let down. Little did we know in house 1 what was in store. I know life happens, and this could be a possibility, but it gives it a depressing slant and taints the original.The original House is the only one worth watching. Like is the cast with most sequels.

If you go into this expecting a pleasant sequel to House(1986), you will be vastly disappointed. This is a message horror movie about the evils of toxic waste and killing Native Americans. There is an odd feel to the movie, but not in a good way. Mostly it is either dumb, beating a failed henchman with a sex doll, or sick, watching a little person hack up lung butter. There is only one scene that really came close to being as funny and scary as scenes in the original house. Mrs. Cobb opens up a pizza box and the pizza has a face which starts singing to her. William Katt does return in this movie to be killed and also in one scene as a ghost. Thanks a lot. Thankfully this was the third and final House film, seeing as House 3: The Horror Show is a sequel like Zombie 2 is a sequel. Stick with the original, you can never fail with William Katt and George Wendt.

"House IV" is the worst movie of the series.**SPOILERS**Kelly Cobb (Tracy Treas) and her husband Roger (William Katt) are deciding what to do with their old house, and Roger's brother Burke (Scott Burkholder) is trying to buy it out, which he is unsuccessful in doing. Their Native American neighbor Ezra (Ned Romero) has a secret artifact buried in the basement, that Roger's father knew and promised to keep it intact. During a trip, they get into an accident, killing Roger and injuring their daughter Laurel, (Melissa Clayton) reducing her to being in a wheelchair. Going back to the house, Kelly and Laurel decide to adopt it as a home, like Roger wanted. Her father disapproves of the move, but Kelly and Laurel try to make the most of it. Laurel suggests having a Halloween party, as weird things begin happening around the house. The new housekeeper her father ordered, Verna Klump, (Denny Dillion) seems to think Kelly's crazy for living in the house, and after some restless nights, Kelly has still not accepted his death. Burke is trying to get the house away, and is still unsuccessful, forcing her to think about him more and her to consider not to sell. When even more strange things happen around the house, Kelly is forced to believe her worst nightmares have come true and has targeted her and Laurel.The Good News: The main thing with this movie is that house's design. It's a large, creepy house, with the perfect design for creepy goings-on. It's got the requisite two level design, a basement, large rooms, and an odd looking face when viewed front on. It's not as creepy as the house in Amityville, but it serves the purpose nicely. For this being a haunted house story, there are the usual things that aren't right or shouldn't be doing that. One of the best ones is the recurring gag of the water faucets spewing forth a sludge rather than water. It's a great visual jump the first time around, as it appears out of nowhere, then it happens again and gets us shocked. There were some other good gags in here, like a hand rising out of a pile of fallen ashes, or seeing Roger's face from the toppings on a pizza. Others are a bit more shocking. Easily the best one is the shower switching from water to blood without her knowing, and she becomes covered in blood searching around the room, and finds a threatening message written in the steam on the mirror. Even her few dreams are pretty creepy, and one provides the film's biggest shock.The Bad News: This is far more of a talker film than most people may be accustomed to. There are no big set pieces until very late in the movie, and even then, they aren't very spectacular. What's even weirder is that most of them aren't in the least bit scary. It just takes way too long to get anything going, and when something does happen, it is usually just a split second image of something freaky, then it all goes back to normal. At times, it can feel like a drama more than a horror film, and that is its main problem. It feels too much like a dramatic-horror film than a straightforward horror film. Way too much time is spent on Kelly trying to mourn Roger's death and the drama of life after the death of a main family member than it does with giving the house a genuine sense of dread. It's not that the house isn't scary, it's just there's no suspense in the buildup. Stuff just happens and then it's like the supernatural aspects of the film go right out the window.The Final Verdict: It focuses more on drama than horror, and with some scarier haunted house gags, this might be a little bit more remembered. As it stands, this is a film that will appeal more to those that don't like a lot of shocks or suspense in their films. Its heavy-handed drama will put off those that love action-packed films, who will exercise extreme caution here.Rated R: Language, Violence and Brief Nudity

This is what I call a living nightmare. If you're reading this, then do as I say...First, skip the dialogue part. There is nothing useful in them and they are so bad they make you wanna cry.Second, eat and drink everything you have within the first 40 minutes of the movie. Prepare a paper bag or sit closer to the bath room if you need to throw up either from hopeless storyline or yucky stuff they are showing in this movie.Third, you may try to get scared or to have a laugh and a half. You tell me if you have.Fourth, turn off everything that runs on electricity, don't smoke and put your TV on timer, because, most probably, you will fall asleep.That's it. Wish you nice watching.