Jack (Rosales) and Stephanie (Dippold) is a married couple having problems. Traveling through the backwoods of Alabama on the way to a counseling session their car breaks down. Seeking refuge, they come across a secluded and creepy Inn where another couple has just checked in due to a raging rain storm. Eventually they meet the more than odd innkeepers; Betty (Leslie Easterbrook), Pete (Lew Temple) and their deranged looking son Stewart (Bill Moseley). A creepy stalker named the Tin Man (Madsen) throws a tin can with the house rules on it and the message reads that one must die before dawn. This film can't make up its mind of what it is going to be. Does it want to be the crazy backwoods family running a muck, a supernatural opus or a slasher flick with the Tin man stalking about? The characters are forced to face some emotional baggage they carry with the help of ghost named Susan (Alana Bale). This is mixed in with the crazy innkeepers running around creating trouble and the Tin man who seems ready to strike before dawn comes. The characters split up and a few of them run into the basement (Which is way too large for the house shown) and the audience waits for something scary to happen. The movie skates on the edge of being scary, but they're too many themes working here and not enough attention is given to any of them to make them fully work. Half-baked and not really scary, 'House' misses' opportunities to be scary and wastes a good cast in the process due to poor execution.

While driving through a secondary road for a meeting with a marriage counselor in Montgomery, Alabama, the estranged couple Jack Singleton (Reynaldo Rosales) and Stephanie Singleton (Heidi Dippold) ask for directions to a Police Officer (Michael Madsen) but they have a car accident with a metal part left on the road. Jack realizes that his Mustang has two flat tires and they see an abandoned Beamer parked on the road with the head lights on and flat tires.Jack and Steph walks in the rain seeking for help. They see an inn where they meet the businessman and owner of the Beamer, Randy Messsarue (J.P. Davis), and his fiancée Leslie Taylor (Julie Ann Emery). Out of the blue, the weird owners Pete ( Lew Temple), his mother Betty (Leslie Easterbrook) and Stewart (Bill Moseley) welcome the guests and invite them to have dinner. Sooner they are chased by the owner and the maniac The Tin Man and they find that they are trapped in the evil house. Further, for surviving, they lean that they must kill one of them in accordance with The Tin Man's rules. But the mysterious girl Susan (Alana Bale) befriends Jack and advises that if anyone kills, he or she will definitely belong to The Tin Man.The underrated "House" is a surprisingly entertaining horror tale. The creepy story is not a masterpiece, but I was misled believing that it would be another torture film and not a supernatural thriller. Leslie Easterbrook, in the role of Betty, and Lew Temple, in the role of Pete, are very scary and creepy. The plot is not a masterpiece and does not explain well the presence of Susan, but I liked this movie. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Jogos de um Psicopata" ("Games of a Psycopath")

but I've seen this one before! There was this movie called "Reaker" a few years ago that had exactly the same setup. People involved in an auto accident find themselves in a surreal situation where they are pursued by a menacing force. They wake up to discover that they were at the gates of hell, and the other people who failed to get away were in fact "killed" in the accident.Still, the setup is kind of interesting, where a married couple with a troubled past are the protagonists of the situation. The movie drags in places, but otherwise isn't that bad for a direct to DVD. It has Michael Madsen in it, but he isn't as insufferable as he normally is.

If you're reading this comment you've probably already know what this film is about so I'll skip all that and talk about my biggest problem with the movie.There was not one single second that I actually cared about these characters. The book has the exact same problem. There's the squabbling couple, the slutty girl, and the angry guy. We're told in the movie that they're "guilty as sin" but you're never really sure what of. The couple lost a daughter and are fighting. Slutty girl was abused as a child... it's not clear why she's "guilty" only that she's now promiscuous. Let's not forget angry guy. He was abused by his father and he yells a lot.I'm pretty sure the intent of the book and the movie was to demonstrate that these four people, hurt though they may be, have turned around and caused their own destruction on others.Of course, we never really get to see anybody before they get to the house. So we don't really know why we should care or more to the point, what they're even guilty of to deserve the treatment they get. Would've been nice if the film actually let us get to know these people, just a little and actually show how they have hurt others. That way, when the demon rednecks pronounce their guilt we know why, and any revelations the characters come by about themselves would actually resonate with the audience.Really though, what can I expect when this is the problem with the book too. We get a little bit more detail in the book (as well as a bold evangelistic message) but the characters really only serve to occupy the freaky house gimmick. It's like they just put the four character names in a hat and picked out two to survive. That's great for your average horror movie, but not for something that claims to be something more substantial.