Cut the sunny, happy crap tonight with the Grindhouse Film Festival’s latest infliction of horror: A super-rare 35mm print of the 1979 horror film Don’t Go In The House. It’s the tale of a charming young man whose even more charming mother raised him by using lit matches as a corrective to naughty behavior. Thusly, he grew into a flame-thrower-wielding psychopath who lures torture victims into his house/torture chamber. Bet you can guess what the moral of the story is: DON’T GO IN THE GODDAMN HOUSE. (Also, don’t burn your kids with lit matches.)
Don’t Go in The House screens at 7:30, preceded by bonus ’70s-era horror trailers!
Marjorie Skinner is the Portland Mercury's Managing Editor, author of the weekly Sold Out column chronicling the area's independent fashion and retail industry, and a frequent contributor to the film and... More by Marjorie Skinner
Great disco scene in this movie. Good film if you like to watch people burning. See you there!
There were too many Avon ladies anyway.