Bad. Really really bad.
I'll fess up to liking the original House because it was fun. It wasn't a horror movie. It wasn't a comedy. It was something in-between that didn't quite take itself too seriously. The fact that it was released in my junior year of high school probably had something to do with it too.
But by the time House IV rolled around? Phew. The stench is just awful. According to the trivia at IMDB, a movie called The Horror Show was released as House III overseas, so they had to call this one House IV, even though it was really the third in the series. Strange.
To the movie. Roger Cobb (William Katt), the writer, comes back to us. But is killed off pretty quickly. Lucky for him.
In any case, it appears he is the owner of a house in the middle of nowhere, built over a sacred Indian spring. He and his wife and his daughter (no mention of the missing son from the first movie, or the ex-wife, or even the house itself, or even that he is a writer, which may seem odd - except for his name, he may be a different character entirely).
In the car crash that kills Roger, his daughter loses the use of her legs, so his wife moves into the decrepit old house in the middle of nowhere. Soon enough, a strange maid shows up to help with the housework. Nice, but odd. Roger's brother keeps pestering his wife to sell so he can turn the place into a dumping ground for toxic waste before he gets killed by his boss. Roger's wife is haunted by his ghost. On and on we go.
Finally, the house is burned down, the seal over the sacred spring breaks, the water heals the daughter's legs, everything works out. The end. Now you don't have to rent it. Or watch it. You should be glad I saved you the time. This movie is one of the worst I have ever seen. And that's saying a lot. I've seen some bad movies.
Rated R, but it's probably to keep people away. I'm not really sure if there's any reason why it should be other than the fact that it's really bad.
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