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.

OK besides two little things, the fact that I had guessed what was going on bc I had seen a similar movie with the exact same idea down to the execution of it, and the finger touching ridiculous part at about 20 minutes before it ends, but besides those two things I thought this movie was really done quite well actually. I am so surprised it has such low ratings!?! Even tho it does have the same plot as that other movie it was still done in a different setting somewhat with different background and keeps you entertained the whole time, I was really intrigued by this film. Like a book you can't put down I was carrying my iPad all over my house til the movie ended.This is very very underrated film, I'm not sure why it doesn't have better ratings but I really liked it and think it deserves at least 7-8 stars. I gave it 9 to bump up score & not 10 bc of the weird finger touch scene that was super cheesy!

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.