Ghosthouse. 1988.
A ham radio operator picks up a recording of a man screaming and traces the signal to a deserted house. Soon after they look into the house and it's previous owners a couple with their daughter who died in mysterious circumstances. The ghost of the young girl and her doll bring death to those who see her.
The film that was made by Umberto Lenzi while trying to convince the audience that it was a American director, the man can't fool us no matter how hard he tried. How many times this has been watched, the acting never gets any better even with Jim's death it becomes more comical, Lenzi must have told him what was gonna happen and told him to act out how it would look, Martin Jay probably told him he would give out the performance of a life time and we get the end result, must be why he has only been in 3 movies.
Coulrophobia must have been a big thing in the 80s and with films, Poltergeist gave us a creepy clown and offered some inspiration to one particular scene where things are flying round a bedroom, yet we get a creepy looking thing that is able to spring teeth at a blink of a eye and creep up on people.
At least Lenzi gave us a fearsome atmosphere within the house and the young girl's crypt towards the end, got the strange feeling that some of the background score was used in the 1987 film Stagefright. But the music for the doll seems like some sort of devilish lullaby rhyme that would creep a young one out. Still a entertaining flick.
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