Long before The Santa Clause 2 (eight years, in fact), there was The Santa Clause. This movie introduced us to Scott Calvin (Tim Allen), who is basically a regular guy trying to come to grips with the fact that his ex-wife and her new husband have custody of his son, and he doesn’t get to see him very often.

Add to that the fact that his job is rather demanding, and even when he does get to see his son, such as on Christmas Eve, he’s usually running late, and his son doesn’t always want to see him, so things just aren’t going very well. All that is about to change.

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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.

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