Boardinghouse (1982)

A boarding house is reopened years after gruesome murders were committed there. Suddenly, the body count begins once more!

Director:

John Wintergate

Writer:

John Wintergate (screenplay)

Stars:

John Wintergate, Kalassu, Lindsay Freeman

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
John Wintergate	...	Jim Royce / Gardner (as Hawk Adly)
Kalassu	...	Victoria (as Kalassu Kay)
Lindsay Freeman	...	Debbie Hoffman (as Alexandra Day)
Joel Riordan	...	Joel Weintraub (as Joel McGinnis Riordan)
Brian Bruderlin	...	Richard
Selma Kora	...	Sandy (as Belma Kora)
Tracy O'Brian	...	Suzie
Mary McKinley	...	Cindy
Rosane Woods	...	Gloria
Cindy Williamson	...	Pam
Christopher Conlan	...	Christopher
Elizabeth Hall	...	Terri
Tom Mones	...	The Agent
Dean Disico	...	Harris
Elliot Van Koghbe	...	Officer Weston

Storyline

Resembling a cross between "The Amityville Horror" and a Playboy Playmates video, this film tells the terrifying tale of a cheesy video special effect that stalks bikini-clad women. In between scenes of them playfully splashing each other and wrestling with each other's bathing suit tops, they're murdered and/or terrorized by horrific hallucinations. These hallucinations include seeing blood in the shower stalls (while they're trying to lather up), having giant monsters jump out of the hall closet, and seeing their faces temporarily turn into rubber halloween masks.

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Plot Keywords:

blood | murder | shower | mask | bare breasts | 

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Taglines:

Last Week the Hoffman house was opened for boarders. Along with the new residents...Something else moved in!

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Genres:

Comedy | Horror

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Also Known As:

Housegeist

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Blustarr

Technical Specs

Runtime:

98 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Referenced in There's Nothing Out There (1991)

User Reviews

What the hell did I just watch?

Years ago, murders occurred in a boarding house. Psychic playboy Jim Royce (director John Wintergate) moves in, and has hot naked chicks surrounding him. No, this is not a porno. Unsurprisingly, the house isn't too keen on this, and soon, bad special effects and more come to terrorize those in the house.

Shot on Video (the first horror movie to be SOV in fact) and released theatrically (yes, a SOV movie came to theaters) in 1982, "Boardinghouse" defies any real proper description. The acting boarders on Amateur Porn levels, the music is a blatant "Halloween" rip off, the gore is unconvincing, the 80's fashion styles are an offense to the eyes, and the plot (so to speak) is a ramshackle of odd events.

That out of the way, the movie is never boring. Yes, it's bad. Yes, it is deficient of any real technical merit. Yet, you can't stop watching it. It's a level of bad that manages to be somewhat enduring in it's ineptitude. The movie moves along, though it never really goes anywhere. Hot chicks are knocked off randomly, without any reason to care about any of them.

In short, to say it's incoherent would be an understatement. It's a movie that defies any real explanation, and is unlike anything I've ever seen before. Whether or not I want to see something like it again I don't know.