Meep Pic Of The Week: House (1986)

Successful Horror Comedies are few and far between. It's really difficult to get the proper tone down mixing those two genres, but Steve Miner & Sean Cunningham's House gets it right. It's gallows humor is an interesting and lively mix with a potentially depressing story revolving around a writer's grief over the accidental death of his child.

William Katt plays a Steven King-esque Horror writer, who while working on a more personal novel involving his experiences in Vietnam, and having to deal with his aforementioned grief, suddenly finds himself living in a House he inherited by his recently deceased Aunt. He also inherits the house's ghouls and propensity to get inside of your head.

House has many fun and zany moments involving severed body parts, a nosy neighbor played by George Wendt (Norm!) another nosy neighbor with big breasts and a brat for a child, and some crazy Vietnam flashbacks (Bull from Night Court!) Horror director veteran Steve Miner surprisingly imbues this movie with a lot of great, light touches without having to skimp on the horror. I'd also like to mention this picture makes some really great use of pop music.

House may not be a perfect film, but it's kind of a blast.

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