Don't Go in the House (1979)

Directors

Joseph Ellison

Cast

Dan Grimaldi, Charlie Bonet, Bill Ricci, Robert Osth

The story

Donny Kohler is a withdrawn man in his thirties who is obsessed with fire—his fixation stems back to his childhood, during which his sadistic, abusive mother would burn him on their gas stove to "burn the evil out of him." After returning from his factory job one evening to the dilapidating Victorian home he shares with his now-elderly mother, Donny finds that she has died in her upstairs bedroom. This spurs mixed emotions—initially of excitement, as he is finally freed from her—but alternately, fear, as he begins to hear a disembodied voice in the house that seems hers. The following day, Donny calls in sick to work and spends the day…

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