Don't Go in the House

Name: Don't Go in the House
Duration: 1 h 22 min

1hr 22m

1hr 22m
3.1/5 (2.8K)
85%

Traumatized loner Donald Kohler struggles after his mother's death, as childhood abuse, obsessive thoughts, and a growing fixation with fire push him toward… More Details »

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Director:

Joseph Ellison

Writer:

Joe Masefield, Ellen Hammill

Release Date:

Mar 28, 1980

Runtime:

1hr 22m

Synopsis

Traumatized loner Donald Kohler struggles after his mother's death, as childhood abuse, obsessive thoughts, and a growing fixation with fire push him toward increasingly dangerous encounters with unsuspecting women.

Cast

Dan Grimaldi
Charles Bonet
Bill Ricci
Robert Carnegie
Dennis M. Hunter
John Hedberg
Ruth Dardick
Johanna Brushay
Darcy Shean
Mary Ann Chin

Letterboxd User Reviews

3.1

RATINGS 11 FANS

3.1

Mar 17, 2015

wow they certainly should not have gone into the house

457 Likes

machill54

Nov 22, 2017

Having very recently come to the devastating realization that I have only seen half of the Video Nasties list, this was an excellent choice to start my quest to view them all! A young man goes off the deep end after his abusive mother passes and starts acting out her…

208 Likes

Tony the Terror

Nov 10, 2025

"I'm not a Nutcase!" Donny likes the hot ladies, actually Donny likes the ladies hot, in fact he prefers them well done, flaming well done - its just a pity none of them took any notice of title of this movie ... they all still went in! "You're a Sicko!" Would make a…

177 Likes

VIVE_le_FILTH
Apr 12, 2022

This kind of plays out like a grindhouse version of Psycho, but with more disco music and flamethrower action added to the mix. It is a very low-budget affair with plenty of sleaze and grime. I thought the first kill sequence was pretty gnarly, but sadly most of the rest…

134 Likes

Lou (doesn't rhyme with booh! 👻)

Sep 16, 2018

Has this ever happened to you? Avidly watching horror movies for 40+ years and for many of those years I thought this was some other movie that I had seen before. Even as a re-watch, there were always so many other things to catch up on ahead of this. Then about a week ago…

120 Likes

Digital Press

Feb 6, 2022

If you ever watched Psycho or Maniac or The Driller Killer and wondered what those would be like if the misogynistic killer had a fixation with fire stemming from his abusive upbringing and instead of stabbing people torched them with a flamethrower then look no further.…

103 Likes

Josh Lewis
Mar 26, 2022

Right on the cusp of that unadulterated 70's grime and the 80's slasher oblivion comes this creeping nightmare drama, a chilling character study that will leave a trail of ashes down your spine. Dan Grimaldi (Patsy from The Sopranos!) stars as Donny, a man with severe…

100 Likes

Bob McCully

Feb 11, 2025

if i was stranded on the side of the road i’d still say no to getting a ride from this dude. i learned all about stranger danger as a child. smh. 😤 you ain’t fooling me. this was so brutal and genuinely scary. the whole situation was a nightmare and the burnt corpses…

82 Likes

oldsoulkaty 🎃📺🍂

Dec 20, 2019

This film gained notoriety purely for the fact that it was on the video nasty list! Like most of the list, It didn't deserve to be there on its own merits. However, it is actually a reasonably entertaining twist on the common slasher formula. The film takes influence from…

81 Likes

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