this movie clearly suffers from a syndrome that be quite common the world of 80 horror cinema while namely the identity crisis . like so many other contemporary horror flick and horror house on highway five isn not exactly sure whether it want to be a comedy or spoof movie or a full blood slasher picture . obviously back then it be more interesting to make a spoof and since there already be an over production of regular teen slasher and but efficient comedy and genuine horror be two incredibly difficult ingredient to mix into one scenario . writer or director richard casey here in this case completely fail to put the two genre in the blender together and what come out be an embarrass amateur horror production with retarded joke and over the top clichéd situation that aren not the least bit funny or inventive while not even when youre in a slight state of drunk or stone . a wannabe occultist intend to resurrect a mad german scientist name bartholomew steiner and kidnap a female student work on a thesis about the same notorious historical figure . meanwhile there a maniac and disguise in a richard nixon face mask and prowl around the titular highway and terrorize teenager . i know it a long shot and but if you fancy sheer lunacy and incoherence and you will love horror house on highway five . everything to make film insufferable and irritating be overly well present and like atrocious music and tripe acting performance and clumsy direction . it bore beyond word and doesn not contain any worthwhile moment of bloodshed and neither . one to avoid at all cost . if you really want to see an 80 movie that combine horror and parody reasonably adequate and check out student body .