tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751360814489146754.post2471712099817834414..comments2024-02-21T20:51:54.249+00:00Comments on The Celluloid Highway: Don't Go in the House (1980)Shaun Anderson [The Celluloid Highway]http://www.blogger.com/profile/18066744649878418309noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751360814489146754.post-46607518709932636302011-12-22T14:43:38.762+00:002011-12-22T14:43:38.762+00:00Well the taverns along this particular stretch of ...Well the taverns along this particular stretch of cinematic asphalt are of 'The Slaughtered Lamb' from AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON variety. And if you stray too far off the designated route you might end up getting ass raped by an extra from DELIVERANCE!Shaun Anderson [The Celluloid Highway]https://www.blogger.com/profile/18066744649878418309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751360814489146754.post-8087432928274468352011-12-22T00:56:59.373+00:002011-12-22T00:56:59.373+00:00As you well know, The Highway is a favorite haunt ...As you well know, The Highway is a favorite haunt of mine, one which I look forward to wandering upon. Never for too long though, and not without a car or comforting inn nearby to provide respite from the damp and chill that fret me so if I amble too long - not to mention the over powering sense of dread, the certainty that the dead-breeze that rustles the hedgerows off to either side of The Greg Stuart Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11939384500810162186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751360814489146754.post-64196998882840086312011-12-19T13:47:12.961+00:002011-12-19T13:47:12.961+00:00@ Feore; Obviously for us UK residents this isn...@ Feore; Obviously for us UK residents this isn't the easiest film to get hold of in an uncut form, but the Region 1 DVD is still easy to obtain. It certainly has an atmosphere peculiar to itself, and for that alone it's worth a look.<br /><br />@ Greg; Yes a double bill of DON'T GO IN THE HOUSE and MANIAC would be an incredibly depressing experience, but thematically speaking, it Shaun Anderson [The Celluloid Highway]https://www.blogger.com/profile/18066744649878418309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751360814489146754.post-30254494373592236162011-12-16T07:51:49.969+00:002011-12-16T07:51:49.969+00:00Haven't seen this, but the write up was engagi...Haven't seen this, but the write up was engaging and informative. As always, nice work, Shaun. I suppose I should be embarrassed that I haven't seen MANIAC either. Sounds like to view these two in tandem would be a depressing double bill indeed.<br /><br />Reminds me in a way of that shitty remake of MAN HUNTER, RED DRAGON. I don't know if the Tooth Fairy's back story is in theGreg Stuart Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11939384500810162186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751360814489146754.post-61604524131627998992011-12-14T19:18:34.630+00:002011-12-14T19:18:34.630+00:00I've yet to see this film, however any paralle...I've yet to see this film, however any parallel to William Lustigs Maniac would make this worth a shot, morbid of me I know. I would also like to see it just on the basis that the UK Censorship board demmed it to be a video Nasty, as they did with many of the extreme Horrors of the early 80's. Little fact Joseph Ellison only directed one more feature film (Joey in 1986)I guess the candle Feore Fannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751360814489146754.post-43082228701224191702011-12-12T03:18:31.016+00:002011-12-12T03:18:31.016+00:00According to IMDB shooting on Maniac finished a co...According to IMDB shooting on Maniac finished a couple of months before this film was released. Looks like Lustig came up with those similarities by himself (which is a faintly scary thought).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com