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Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

The acting in this movie is really good.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

When Detective Lucas McCarthy (Lance Henriksen) finally captures the notorious serial-killer Meat Clever Max Jenke (Brion James), he feels relieved when Max is executed by the electric chair. However the parapsychologist Dr. Tower (Matt Clark) warns McCarthy that Max will return, but he does not give attention to the doctor. McCarthy is a family man and lives with his wife Donna (Rita Taggart) and their daughter Bonnie (Dedee Pfeiffer) and son Scott (Aron Eisenberg) in a comfortable house. Soon McCarthy becomes delusional seeing Max everywhere. When Bonnie´s boyfriend Vinnie (David Oliver) is found dead in the house, his family believes McCarthy killed the teenager and he is arrested. But he knows that Max is the responsible for Vinnie´s murder and wants to destroy his family. "The Horror Show" is a supernatural gore film with a rip-off Wes Craven´s "Shocker". Although entitled 'House III" in Brazil, it might have been "Shocker II". Anyway, "The Horror Show" is underrated with good performances of Lance "Alien" Henriksen and Brion "Blade Runner" James. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "House III - A Casa do Espanto" ("House III - The Frightening House")

The Horror Show is an amazing movie. It has everything a horror movie should have, I can't think of one thing I didn't like or that it's missing. The acting is great and while it is 99% horror, it does have some comedy mixed in, but it only adds to the movie. This movie only gets better with time.10/10

The leads make the difference in this undistinguished but adequately entertaining horror film from producer Sean S. Cunningham. It marked the directorial debut for the late effects artist James Isaac, who was brought in to replace a man named David Blyth. With a screenplay credited to Leslie Bohem and the pseudonymous "Alan Smithee" (in reality Allyn Warner), it bears a strong resemblance to Wes Cravens' "Shocker" from the same year, and never has any really good ideas, or scares. There's some enjoyable makeup effects, and mild gore, by KNB (in one of their earliest gigs as a company), and a reasonable level of cheese (including the expected end credits rock song). Although unrelated to the two "House" horror comedies from 1986 & 1987, it was retitled "House III" for the overseas market, so when Cunningham and company made another entry in the series stateside, they were obliged to name it "House IV".Lance Henriksen is typically rock solid in his portrayal of Lucas McCarthy, a police detective haunted by images and the voice of Max Jenke (the late, great character actor Brion James, in an amusingly campy turn), a vicious serial killer whom Lucas had captured and who had been strapped into an electric chair and fried. Not surprisingly, Jenke has found a way to "live on" and he proceeds to terrorize McCarthy and his family by injecting nightmares into reality. With the clue to defeat Jenke supplied to him by scientist Peter Campbell (Thom Bray), Lucas determines to fight his undead foe and finish him once and for all.As "rubber reality", "A Nightmare on Elm Street" type cinema goes, "The Horror Show" isn't bad, although some fans of the genre may be disappointed that it doesn't go farther than it does. As it is, it's pretty tame. Still, there are elements to enjoy; other than those already mentioned, there's the cinematography by genre pro Mac Ahlberg, a very nice Harry Manfredini score that's unlike the stuff he did for the "Friday the 13th" series, and a supporting cast featuring a number of familiar faces: Rita Taggart as Lucas's wife, Dedee Pfeiffer and Aron Eisenberg as his kids, Matt Clark as a psychiatrist, Terry Alexander as your standard-issue doomed partner, Lewis Arquette as Lucas's boss, Lawrence Tierney as a warden, and Alvy Moore as a chili salesman.The contrasting styles of Henriksen and James work for their roles; the latter does look like he's having a ball and reportedly had stated that Jenke was his favourite out of the roles he'd played.This should serve as a decent diversion for some horror junkies although others may indeed find it dull and underwhelming.Seven out of 10.

I watched this last night and i was thinking it was gonna be awful, but it was pretty scary and a nice little movie to watch, I enjoyed this more than most other old horror movies. I enjoyed the acting and kinda liked the happy ending, anyway overall it was a 7/10 movie and i recommend this to all retro horror fans. Im out to try and watch the other house movies now I've seen how good this one is :), Finally i loved the fact that they wet to the basement, as you knew what was coming and it had you all tense and waiting for the killer to come out. And also the execution scene is amazing and for 1989 seeing a serial killer taking 1400 volts of electric and surviving is pretty stunning apart from the fact his veins where popping :). Best old horror movie since the exorcist, Definitely Worth a watch.