Movie starts with a kid, Eddie Burber in Halloween mask greeting people going to his family business– The Burber Hunted House. Wanting to get in the business himself, he decides to scare a little girl– but she manages to get impaled? Eddie instead of being a normal person and calling for help then- finishes her off?! Little psycho!
20 yeas later we are now with a local- Sigma Fi fraternity- that’s going bankrupt? This is the first time I’ve ever heard of Fraternity going bankrupt. How does something like that even happen? Anyway, frat bros decide they need to have a party to raise fund for their fraternity (that seems to be their go to solution to everything).
Unfortunately, on the advice of some mysterious stranger claiming to be an Alum they decide to have a party in a Murder House?! He even provides the key. Man, they are really tempting fate with this one.
Now, they get on to fixing the house for a party and nobody suspect anything. Even when two of them disappear after going for a swim… They menage to set everything up- not knowing that Murder House is about to live up to it’s name.
You see the kid- Eddie was taken away by his mother, who was somehow able to control the monster for two decades and it took her death (by natural causes, don’t get ideas) to set him free. First he was only lurking with a creepy mask, then he started killing. But he didn’t start ramping up ’till the party started.
Despite how shockingly incompetent the Frat Bros looked, party starts off as am absolute success! But then among all the other… teenagers (and surprising amount of kids?) find the bonus Killing Room in the house and despite a poor tied- up girl yelling “…this guy is a Killer, this is for real!” they still think it’s all a game, and are having fun.
Little Miley Cyrus here isn’t the brightest…
Eddie is living it up, performing for the audience- and chopping and slashing people up mercilessly. Kids especially love it. (If we learn one thing from this movie- it’s that all kids are evil.)
It takes another performance including a hanging and a public electrocution for a comic relief of all people to figure things out (I mean you literally had a pile of bodies in the back). After yelling “This isn’t part of the house” everybody panics and scatters including Eddie who they scare off with a flame- thrower? Man, those Frat Bros have everything.
They do manage to save most of the last crops of victims but Eddie runs away using a secret hatch from the beginning of the movie. They try to stop him using the fire again but he still manages to escape. They the police finally comes and get the most pathetic chase scene in the movie history. Back of Eddie’s red van gets hit by a shotgun by Kurt and it goes up in flames like it was made out of cardboard! The End
(We do get a Rockabilly Haunted House song over the credits so that’s a plus.)
Verdict: Now, this movie actually had elements that could be pulled together in a fun, rural Slasher movie. Unfortunately the structure and the pacing are a complete mess. We spend so much time with College kids goofing off (that it could almost be a teen comedy) and then we just rush through the killings in the last 25 minutes. It’s almost like they run out of tape while filming and never even bothered to figure out a proper ending . Which is strange because the movie was supposedly filmed on and off for two years, so you would think they would have figured it out.
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