trashgang Can it get any worser to understand it all? i mean, just look at the release of Ghosthouse (1988). It had an good script but was also called La Casa 3 clocking in on Evil Dead's success. Then came Ghosthouse 2 but that's a title used for a few different flicks and wasn't directed by Lenzi and had nothing to do with the original one. Here I just watched what they call in Germany Ghosthouse 3. But it has again nothing to do with Ghosthouse, in fact it should be called La Casa 5 but it doesn't. It's just one of the fourth part of the series "Le case maledette" (Doomed Houses) also including La dolce casa degli orrori, La casa nel tempo and La casa del sortilegio.Again, as so many Italian flicks this is pure trash and just look at how it was made, it looked much older, it even looks as a seventies release. The effects were again dull and laughable. But this time a few killings did happen all as decapitations. The most notorious one the one with the laundry machine. Nevertheless it's again low on every part. It's so strange that a man like Lenzi could make such supernatural trash. The ghosts are just real people that are standing there with wooden performances and thats' what most of the acting is. Some did make it into the Italian scene. Okay, it was a television release but still from someone who made Cannibal Ferox this is trash. Gore 1/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 1/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

Joe Ebbasi So I rang one of my bro and said to watch a film one night. We got started and pretty soon got the mood. The film has some kids camping in the hills and then one night they stop in a hotel with a creepy guy. Soon the weird things start to happen and the basement is a no-go zone. One girl is stuck in a fridge and there is an almighty bang downstairs. I must say I was pretty scared. The next day two go to the town for the police and some research. The other guys stick at the hotel and the young kid is attacked upstairs by some machines. A really horrible moment his head comes off in the washing machine. Suddenly ghosts appearing and one by one they die. Everyone gets their head lopped off. The ghosts are from the people killed in the hotel many years back. There is even a Japanese monk! The survivors are the girl with telepathy and her boyfriend. There are many really scared moments in this film and both me and bro were pretty engrossed. The gory bits were very real and pretty nasty to see. The acting was so-so but enough of it was convinced for frightened young kids. In the end some heads are exploded and the ghosts can now rest. I could recommend this film for some scares and a mad night inside with a beer or a pizza. I jumped on many times and afterwards I had some trouble sleeping that night.

slayrrr666 "House of Lost Souls" is a very fine addition to the long line of fine European horror.**SPOILERS**Traveling through the countryside, friends Kevin, (Joseph Alan Johnson) Carla, (Stefania Orsola Garello) Massimo, (Matteo Gazzolo) Mary, (Laurentina Guidotti) Guido, (Costantino Meloni) and Daria, (Licia Colo) decide to stop off at a hotel to spend the night. As they decide to explore the house, they experience a series of weird visions and scenes that make them believe that it's haunted by malevolent spirits. Realizing that the small town nearby might have answers, they go out and discover that the hotel decades ago was the site of a brutal mass murder, and that the ghosts haunting the place where the victims of the rampage from the past and are soon out to terrorize the remaining guests inside, forcing them into a fight with the supernatural in order to escape it's deadly grounds.The Good News: This was a really interesting and exciting European-horror tale. There's some really fantastic scenes in here that come from it's wonderful setting. The opening visions of a knife-wielding Buddhist Monk that starts slashing at the camera starts it off at the right note, and once inside the house it has even more. Soon strange visions haunt them, as there's dead bodies that appear and disappear out of nowhere, blood dripping from the ceiling, spiders crawl over beds and ghosts materialize out of thin air and much more. Each of these is really great, as the spiders scene is the best. With the dripping blood starting off from the ceiling fan covering the victim on the bed, a split-second later they turn into spiders crawling all over the body in a long, protracted scene that is just infinitely creepy as it goes on. Another great one is the scenes down in the cellar, which are just great and really fun as there's plenty to like about them since they're just so much fun. From the howling winds that spring to life to the malevolent manifestations that appear out of nowhere and the film's ability to keep throwing people down there for more scenes of them is a great idea and definitely worthwhile. Those are really amongst the best parts of the film, as well as the later scenes of the demons coming alive. This one even has a fun severed head gag that is one of the better ones of the style. The finale is the fantastic assault of the undead ghosts chasing the remaining survivors through a crumbling house, and it's action-packed, tense and quite exciting, from the decision to fight the creatures to the way that they're able to fight back, this is all really great. The deaths in here are pretty good as well, mainly decapitations but they're all really good. From being done with hatchets to a spinning chainsaw to a falling window pane and by falling into a dryer, which is the single most impressive one. The way it happens is the best set-up in the world, the victim is just so deserving and because it's done on-screen makes it so great. This is one of the best things about the film which featured a lot of good things in it.The Bad News: There wasn't a whole lot here that didn't work. The fact that the deaths here just weren't as good as the previous European horror fare to come along is cause for concern, as beyond a couple of them, most of the deaths in here are either done from an angle that makes the impact obvious but done in such a way as to render it impossible to see the full impact of it or to be done in a completely inane way that just doesn't look at all realistic. This is a far cry that doesn't match up for most of the ones in the past, which is something that can hold this one down. The other thing in this that doesn't work is the constant showing of the back-story which is just the same thing over and over again. Rather than doing anything new with them, showing anything different or even giving off new information, which should've been the point. These here are the film's few flaws.The Final Verdict: An incredibly fun European horror entry that has a lot going for it and only a few flaws, this here is quite a lot of fun. Give this a shot if you're really big on the European style of genre films or want a creepy little haunted house film without being grossed out, while those who aren't should heed caution.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Language

zeppo-2 It's the old dark house plot again with added gore. Foolish young people take shelter in in old house or in this case, hotel and all hell then breaks loose. Not one of the most original stories in the field of horror films and sadly there is nothing really new in this made for TV movie. Other than the only known case of death by washing machine that is!Made in 1989 but looks even more dated than that, the jocks and bimbos in the American splatter films were pretty air-headed but they were always far worse and incredibly stupid in the European ones. Anyone with an ounce of sense would see what a 'con-damned' building this house was and run for the hills. These just wait around aimlessly to be picked off by the forces of evil.The sound dubbing isn't very good either and somewhat annoying as none of the voices seem to be in tune with the actors. And the small child while I guess, is supposed to be cute is just a major pain in the backside. But then again, none of the cast are sympathetic and you don't really care what happens to them. Thus it rattles onto a dull finale and disappointment. Like a lot of Spanish and Italian films in this genre, the horror effects happen for no rhyme or reason, just to try to elicit a scare. There has to be some bounds of credibility and logic in even the most dopey plots.Only for really die hard fans of the director.