Don't Go in the House (1979) on Netflix
Donny Kohler lives with the mother who burned his arms over the gas stove when he was a boy. After she dies in her sleep, whispering voices tell him he is free.
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Plot summary
Donny Kohler works at a sanitation incinerator plant, where a co-worker, Ben, is caught in a fire when an aerosol can explodes in the furnace. His supervisor, Vito, blames Donny for not acting; his friend Bobby Tuttle tells him not to dwell on it. Driving home, Donny hears whispering voices. He makes tea for his mother and finds her dead in her sleep. The voices tell him that he is free and can do as he likes, and the sight of a box of matches brings back the burnings she gave him as a boy. Donny lines an upstairs room with steel siding. That night he persuades Kathy Jordan, a florist closing up shop, to sell him flowers for his mother, then offers her a ride.
Cast
- Robert Carnegieas Bobby Tuttle
- Ruth Dardickas Mrs. Kohler
- Bill Riccias Vito
- Ralph D. Bowmanas Father Gerritty
- Mary Ann Chinnas Woman in Street
- Susan Smithas Girl in Market
- Dennis M. Hunteras Worker
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Don't Go in the House (1979)
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- Britain's 1980 cinema release cut almost three minutes from the film. Arcade's 1982 uncut video was advertised as "a true 'nasty' from Arcade" and landed on the DPP's list of banned video nasties, and the film was not passed uncut until 2011.
- Don't Go in the House was shot at the Strauss Mansion in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, which at the time was in a state of disrepair and had been used as low-income housing.
- Richard Einhorn's score, mixing electronics with orchestral and dissonant sounds, got its first-ever soundtrack release only in 2019, when Waxwork Records issued it as a double LP.
