A group of friends show up to a wreck of a house in order to clean it up but fall victim to the elderly woman and her daughter who live in the home. 

Judging a Book by its Cover

-Look at the left, then look at the right. You’re actually looking at the same movie, just with vastly different titles and covers. And totally different vibes.

Party on, dudes, but not here!

Directed by James Riffel

Starring Mark Zobian, Victor Verhaeghe, and Sarah Newhouse

The movie is supposed to be about a group of friends who show up at an old house to fix up and hang out in so, naturally, an evil inside the house kills them off one by one. What it really is, is a movie about a group of people who pretend to be friends but seem to shit on one another at every opportunity, so it’s hard to like anybody, especially when they start getting killed. The evil force is presented as an elderly woman — whose makeup makes the actor look like a decrepit Hulk Hogan — who easily overpowers these idiots who then proceed come back as zombies (maybe ghosts?) after the old woman is done with them. Also known as The Dead Come Home or, my favorite, Dead Dudes in the House, I knew I was in trouble when I saw the Troma intro. The gore can be cheap looking, but gets the job done, yet everything else is awful, which does provide a few unintended laughs, but certainly nowhere near enough to make this worth the runtime.

You’ve got red on you…and not on any of the walls. You’re a terrible painter, Joe.

TL;DR

Story: 2 – Someone inherits an old house, bring their friends over to fix it up, then die in some silly ways.

Blood: 5 – Quite a bit of stabbing and bludgeoning, there was a decent impaling with a pole and someone got cut in half with a window. The effects, both good and bad, were really the only part of the movie that provided any entertainment.

Nudity: 0 – There’s a tease but that’s all it is.

Overall: 2 – For as odd and disjointed as it is, it just wasn’t that fun to watch.

Trivia

-None of the guys on the Dead Dudes cover are actually in the movie. Also, there were women in it too, how rude.

Watcha gonna do, brother?