Don't Go in the House
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| Don't Go in the House aka Pyromaniac aka The Burning | |
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| Directed by | Joseph Ellison |
| Produced by | Matthew Mallinson/Dennis Stephenson/Edward L. Montoro |
| Written by | Ellen Hammill/Joseph R. Masefield(as Joseph Masefield) |
| Starring | Dan Grimaldi, Robert Osth, Charles Bonet, Bill Ricci |
| Music by | Richard Einhorn |
| Cinematography | Oliver Wood |
| Editing by | Jane Kurson |
| Distributed by | Turbine Films Inc./Film Ventures International (FVI)/Media Home Entertainment/21st Century Pictures Group/Ambassador Film Distributors/Media Blasters |
| Release date(s) | 1980 |
| Running time | 82 min |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
Don't Go in the House (also known as Pyromaniac in France) is a low budget slasher film emulating Psycho that gained notoriety as a video nasty and remains banned in some countries. It focuses on the main character's abuse-driven psychoticism and paranoia/schizophrenic hallucinations, mostly unnoticed to those around him.
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[edit] Synopsis
Donald 'Donny' Kohler is deeply disturbed indvidual badly scarred (figuratively and literally) by burns inflicted on him by his mother. As a child, whenever he did something she saw as wicked, she would hold his bare arms over a gas stove in an effort to burn the evil out of him. Due to this he has developed a secret obsession for fire and human combustion. During his job at an incinerator, he observes a co-worker, Billy, catch on fire. Instead of going for help, he stares, mesmerized. When he returns home he finds his mother has died. While he is free from her possessiveness, the only life he has ever known is gone, and with it his chance for revenge against her. He sets out to avenge himself on every woman who bares a resemblance to his hateful parent with the aid of makeshift steel chains, a home-made flamethrower and a steel paneled bedroom crematorium.
One of his earliest victims is local florist Kathy Jordan (Johanna Brushay). Befriending the harmless-looking man, Kathy escorts Donny back to his mother's house, where he chloroforms her, ties her up and burns her to death with his flamethrower.
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Released on a low budget on DVD at a time when home DVD players were first coming to the market and people were building libraries from the few movies available, this title reached audiences that might otherwise have passed it up for more mainstream options. It became a cult-classic as a result, much like Lana Clarkson's Barbarian Queen film and David Carradine's Death Race 2000.
[edit] Cast
| Actor / Actress | Character |
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| Dan Grimaldi | Donald 'Donny' Kohler |
| Robert Osth | Bobby Tuttle |
| Bill Ricci | Vito |
| Charles Bonet
(as Charlie Bonet) |
Ben |
| David Brody | Tony |
| Nikki Collins | Farrah |
| Johanna Brushay | Kathy Jordan |
| Ralph D. Bowman | Father Gerritty |
| Tom Brumberger | Alfred |
| Louise Grimaldi | Barbara |
| Gloria Szymkovicz | Sylvia |
