A cheating husband (John Ericson) gets caught in a rainstorm. He's invited into a mortuary to dry off. While there the mortuary owner shows him four bodies and explains their stories. One is a teacher who hates her students. She's killed by a bunch of deformed kids. The second is a guy who films all his dates with women. Trouble is he kills them all too. Third is about two competing detectives trying to solve who sent a threatening letter. Last is about an obnoxious executive who is mentally and physically tortured. it sounds better than it plays.Boring, VERY PG rated (next to no violence or blood), and full of bad acting. The stories are dull and the total lack of any violence at all makes it sleep-inducing. The wrap around story is kind of interesting but it's a small part of the movie. You can easily skip this one.

"The House Of The Dead" is only a few steps up from the quality of your average home movie. I guess in a way that's inspiring: if this movie can get distribution (and DVD printing), then why not yours? It's a four-part anthology: the first two parts (the teacher stalked by vampire kids, the camera-obsessed woman-killer) are a complete waste of time, the other two (the rival British and American detectives, the guy who gets trapped in an empty building) are slightly more tolerable, and the wraparound (the lead comes face to face with his fate) is actually decent, but three things they all have in common are poor production values, tedious scripting, and amateurish acting. * out of 4.

Under the title "Alien Zone", this sci-fi anthology seems a misnomer, the film concerning an adulterer on a business trip (Ericson) who takes refuge from a storm in a dilapidated building where he's shown an odd hospitality from undertaker (Francis) who introduces him to his most recent corpses and tells of their last moments.Ericson and Francis essentially introduce each vignette, the first concerning a teacher (Novgrod) who despises her occupation and is taunted by an alien presence in her house, Burr DeBenning stars in the second story as a psychopathic peeping tom who invites single women to his home and films them being murdered, Charles Aidman and Bernard Fox are a pair of super detectives seeking to outdo one another in the third instalment, and Richard Gates plays a self-centred businessman who is dealt a lesson in humility by an unknown force when he's held captive in a derelict building.The strands are neatly woven together by Francis, who alludes to Ericson's own atonement for his infidelity, which fittingly becomes the fifth and final chapter. Aidman and Fox have the most material with which to work and probably come off best with their witty dialogue contests, but the other stories are equally compelling if only too brief to resonate. While the title might be somewhat misleading, the stories display a concise, consistent narrative that is entertaining and the film is generally better than one might expect.

I put this movie in with my 12 year old cousin..and we were both blown away!! We expected it to be horrible acting and a hard to follow story. But yah..after i watched it i was speechless!! I loved how original all the stories were in the funeral home. The most boring one would have to be the guy who lures girls to his house and kills them!! haha. But this movie is worth seeing for anyone that likes good stories. I even had my friend watch it with me and he gave it a 9 out of 10!! Definitely one of my favorite old movies that was never popular!! If anyone has any suggestions as to some other good old movies...tell me some!!!