Horror fans I like many of you have wondered what it would be like if alot of if not all of our favourite horror movie actors and actresses starred together in a horror movie. Well there was a horror movie that was released in 2017 that dared to answer that awesome question and well since the last time that I saw and reviewed this movie was back in 2017 when the film was first released I thought that now was the right time to re-watch and re-review that film so join me as I re-review the 2107 film that is called simply "Death House" enjoy.
The plot of this film is two special agents and doctors are trapped inside of a facility designed to house some of the deadliest serial killers known to man kind and when an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) goes of and kills all the power to the building the serial killers are set free and so the special agents and the two doctors have to fight for their lives. In terms of what I thought of the plot to this film the plot to this film is in all honesty rather weak which is a shame because the idea is really solid and so all the film needed to make this idea work was a much stronger plot but for some reason the film chooses to go almost forty five minuets without even a hint as to what the plot of this film even is and trust me i'll hopefully why that's an issue later on in this review.
Starring in this film is Kane Hodder as Sieg , Barbara Crampton as Dr. Karen Redmane and Bill Moseley as Giger. Also starring in his film is Dee Wallace as Dr. Eileen Fletcher , Camille Keaton as Kristi Boon , Michael Berryman as Crau , Tony Todd as The Farmer Asa , Sid Haig as Icicle Killer , Adrienne Barbeau as Virtual Narrator , Felissa Rose as Dr. Angela Freeman , Cody Longo as Agent Jae Novak , Lindsay Hartley as Balthoria , Richard Speight Jr. as Bennett , Cortney Palm as Agent Toria Boon , Debbie Rochon as Leatherlace , Tony Moran as Miguel and the guy who came up with the story for this film the late and great Gunnar Hansen as Albert Kenny.
As you can see by the cast lost for this film this film features alot of horror actors and actresses and as a horror fan it was so freaking cool seeing all of these horror actors and actresses together in a feature length. Now as for what I thought about the acting that in this film in all honesty the acting in this film is in my opinion OK at best which is a shame because it is so cool seeing all of these iconic horror actors and actresses together in a movie and it sucks that the performances aren't that good but I will admit Tony Todd is awesome in this film which shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone because Tony Todd is awesome in every film or TV show that he's been in.
Now what I wasn't expecting was for this film to have a Leatherface parody / homage type of character with the character who is called simply Leatherlace. What makes this even more great is the fact that the late and great Gunnar Hansen plays the father of Leatherlace how I did not spot the fact that Leatherlace is meant to be a parody / homage to Leatherface is truly beyond me since even their names sound very similar and from what I can gather just from this film Leatherlace is pretty much the exact same character as Leatherface.
For some reason this film decides to throw in a bunch of character who are meant to be some of the worst people in humanity and so some reason this bunch of characters are all immortal. Heck they don't explain how these characters are immortal they just get mentioned a few times and it's freaking weird talk about tonal whiplash the film could go from having a pretty scary scene to then having a nice calm scene with these immortal characters and there would be very little to no segway inbetween the two scenes.
I honestly feel that these immortal characters would have been better served if they appeared in a straight up science fiction horror film. Since in this film there presence just feels off and it feels like these immortal characters are the main villains of anougher movie which is a shame because the concept behind the characters (you know having evil villains that are not only immortal but also in some cases known throughout human history) is a really solid idea but this really isn't a film that needs or even wants these immortal characters in my opinion.
The closest film franchise that I could really compare this film to is The Expendables since like The Expendables featured a ton of action film stars where as this film features a ton of horror film actors and actresses. However where as The Expendables franchise is a fun series of films this one film really isn't that much fun to watch which is a shame because when you do get to see some of your favourite horror actors and actresses in the same scene that scene then becomes fun to watch it's just a shame that this film isn't as fun as it perhaps could have been in my opinion.
This film has a total running time of one hour and twenty seven minuets and forty eight seconds and now you see why spending so much time on setting up the story instead of telling the story was a huge problem for me. Since the film couldn't afford to spend as long as it did in setting up the plot of this film since the films running time doesn't allow them to spend as long as they did in setting up the main plot of this film and as such I do feel that the script for this film should have gone through a major rewrite. Since if the script to this film did go through s major rewrite then the story could have been fixed and alot of the things that I personally didn't like in this film could have been fixed but as it is I have no idea what to make of this films running time since with the short running time it means that I don't have to watch this film for very long but at the same time if the film had a longer running time then the story could have been told better or at least that's what I think anyways.
Now then boys and girls since this is a horror film that means that I have to talk about the kills that are in the actual film itself and in my opinion the kills in this film are at best OK. I say that the kills in this film are at best OK because you can barely see the kills and the ones that you can see are in my opinion not that good and the reason why you can't see some of the kills is because the vast majority of this film is set in the dark and so you can't really make out what's going on and more importantly you can't see the kills in this film which for a horror film is a really bad thing in my opinion.
Overall this film had a ton of potential but it just doesn't live up to that potential at all which is a shame because having all of our favourite horror film actors and actresses appear in a feature length film together is a good idea. It's just a shame that this film has a story that takes a very long time to get going as well as some weird as heck immortal characters which are better suited in a science fiction horror film rather then this horror film and since i've talked about both the good and the bad things that are in this film in this very review which means as such that this film gets a 4.5 out of 10 from me , as for where I got the images that I used in this review well I got the images that I used in this review from either Google Images or the official The Texas Chain Saw Massacre fandom wiki page with my preferred website / site for the mages that I used in this review being Google Images simply because Google Images was the only website with images from this film and as always we end this review as we always do with our one true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very unpleasant dreams.
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