The 80s kept the Vietnam War relevant in the movies. It is a long lasting scar on all involved. A comic horror romp involving Vietnam War does add to the confusion for many watching House (1986), trying to diffuse tonal shifts in order to find harmony in the film's execution. I can't dismiss House, never to be considered a tone poem. I get the war's inclusion, though. Roger Cobb is a man of true emotional wreckage in need of rescue. His allowing a fellow soldier to endure torture at the hands of those considered the enemy has long tormented him. Perhaps the house creates a delusion Cobb endures which calls to life real horrors and what manifests is a type of exaggeration. Moll returning to Cobb in the form of a vengeance seeking walking corpse still clad in military fatigues, albeit tattered with flesh deteriorated and skeletal bone exposed. His boy giggling outside a window as Cobb grabs a remote and "shuts him off" as to turn away an existing scourge of his soul. The jungle set in the film doesn't look too genuine, but in a recollection perhaps authenticity is scewed somewhat anyway. I just watched Witchboard a couple weeks ago, and, low and behold if it wasn't Stephen Nichols in Cobb's Vietnam remembrance. Wendt's Harold sums up Cobb's dilemma. He mentions the war, missing boy, divorce to the wife, and aunt's suicide; Harold clarifies to us that what Cobb experiences could be a product of an unsettled mind.
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