Horror 101 – Episode 65: House III (The Horror Show) – May 30th, 2017
They tried to electrocute “Meat Cleaver” Max. It didn’t work.
What do you get when producer Sean S. Cunningham puts Lance Henriksen and Brion James in a cheesy 80s film? You get The Horror Show AKA House III. This podcast is going to be a riot. House III is a little more obscure than our recent threequels. The film had some problems, including the director being fired and replaced in the middle of production. House III was the Wes Craven’s Shocker clone of its day. Another film about a mass murderer being put to death by electrocution, only to come back as a supernatural menace exacting revenge on the cop who put him away. The Horror Show is light on scares but there’s a ton of laughs. With two actors battling each other in a Nightmare of Elm Street kind of script, it has to be entertaining.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:
01:00 Prelude to Terror
03:30 Shout Outs…
05:30 Sean S. Cunningham and House III…
11:00 Flashback Capture…
14:55 The Execution…
17:00 “You have to listen to me…”
18:13 The firing of the first director…
19:05 Turkey/T.V.
20:50 The Quirky Scientist…
22:20 Off Screen Death…
24:30 Good villain, horrible laugh…
26:12 WTF is going on here?!
28:10 Dream Electricity…
31:00 Brion James reflection…
32:00 Scoring the film…
36:17 Conclusion. Thanks for watching!
Directed by: James Isaac & David Blyth
Written by: Allyn Warner & Leslie Bohem
Starring:
Lance Henriksen as Detective Lucas McCarthy
Brion James as Max Jenke
Rita Taggart as Donna McCarthy
Dedee Pfeiffer as Bonnie McCarthy
Aron Eisenberg as Scott McCarthy
Thom Bray as Peter Campbell
Matt Clark as Dr. Tower
Lawrence Tierney as Warden
Greg Finley as Tom Ippolito
Produced by: Sean S. Cunningham
All video, pictures and audio used from House III is copyright © 1989 by Sean S. Cunningham Films. No reproductions of any kind.