When there's a critique on the tone problems of House (1986), I just tell them to watch House IV (1991). This film has something like a 3.3 on the IMDb for a reason. There was an incentive it seems to dick around with whether or not to seriously look at a wife's dilemma dealing with devastating loss, a stepbrother of her late husband turning the screws on selling the property, and trying to understand why there are surreal events plaguing her. Ezra talks of white man's poisonous progress which resulted in his people being devastated while informing Kelly her husband's soul is trapped between two worlds, restless and in need of absolution due to a death committed by another...and it isn't necessarily his wife.
A pizza that talks, leading to Kelly combatting it, using the garbage disposal. A hand reaching out from urn ash. A faucet with brown goo. Shower of blood. A bed that sucks in her daughter. These are delusions which torment Kelly.
Then you have the film going off the rails big time when we meet Roger's brother, Burke's (Burkholder) Mafioso associates, including the boss, a midget with a phlegm problem requiring a machine that drains it. Yep, there is a nasty bit of business involving Burke being held down and force-fed such phlegm! Again, the film has its own share of tone schizophrenia!
A pizza that talks, leading to Kelly combatting it, using the garbage disposal. A hand reaching out from urn ash. A faucet with brown goo. Shower of blood. A bed that sucks in her daughter. These are delusions which torment Kelly.
Then you have the film going off the rails big time when we meet Roger's brother, Burke's (Burkholder) Mafioso associates, including the boss, a midget with a phlegm problem requiring a machine that drains it. Yep, there is a nasty bit of business involving Burke being held down and force-fed such phlegm! Again, the film has its own share of tone schizophrenia!
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