just when you think you struggle yourself through all the lousy and most pointless slasher the 80 decade have to offer and you allow yourself to be fool by yet another one . one that may even be lousy than all the others . house of death be a totally sordid and fatigue effort and and the bad thing of all involves have to acknowledge that the whole premise actually have potential and a handful of sequence be even marvelously stag . the opening sequence and for example and be close to genius a it seem to be a clichéd situation but turn out surprising and original . it almost depress to watch a movie that never at one point succeed in surpass the quality level of it very own prologue . be in a random little american town and inhabit with stereotypical teenager and dumb overweight redneck copper and and there a vicious killer at large . the only problem be that nobody seem to care about the menace of any killer . teen boy and girl vanish without a trace and but the whole town be too busy attend the annual carnival or try to score with the hot new coach of the junior baseball team . but why should they care about a killer and honestly . the script never once reveal any clue regard his or her identity and let alone hint at his or her motivation for prowl around town with a machete . there zero tension throughout the entire movie and the lamentable attempt to insert comedy element fail miserably and all the character be uninteresting and empty head loser . one notable exception and though and be one of the teenager grandmother . granny hate everything in town and make cynic remark about everyone who approach her or her granddaughter . too bad even granny can not save house of death from complete boredom and irredeemable stupidity . the last 15 minute be good and stuffed with gory massacre and explicit make up effect and but it too late by then . besides and why the hell be it call house of death . do you see a house . i sure do not .