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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Fred Dekker (story)
Ethan Wiley (screenplay)
Release Date:
28 February 1986 (USA) more
Tagline:
Ding dong, you're dead. more
Plot:
Roger Cobb is a Vietnam vet. Whose career as a horror novelist has taken a turn for the worse when his... more | full synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 3 nominations more
User Comments:
lotsa fun more (92 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| William Katt | ... | Roger Cobb | |
| George Wendt | ... | Harold Gorton | |
| Richard Moll | ... | Big Ben | |
| Kay Lenz | ... | Sandy Sinclair | |
| Mary Stavin | ... | Tanya | |
| Michael Ensign | ... | Chet Parker | |
| Erik Silver | ... | Jimmy | |
| Mark Silver | ... | Jimmy | |
| Susan French | ... | Aunt Elizabeth | |
| Alan Autry | ... | Cop #3 | |
| Steven Williams | ... | Cop #4 | |
| James Calvert | ... | Grocery Boy (as Jim Calvert) | |
| Mindy Sterling | ... | Woman in Bookstore | |
| Jayson Kane | ... | Cheesy Stud | |
| Billy Beck | ... | Priest |
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Also Known As:
House: Ding Dong, You're Dead (USA) (video title)
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93 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Netherlands:16 | Iceland:16 | Singapore:PG (cut) | South Korea:15 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Norway:15 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R | West Germany:16
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Glenn Close and Sigourney Weaver were considered for the female lead role. more
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Continuity: When Roger and Jimmy are surprised by Skeleton Ben at the front door, their clothes and hair are dripping wet. Two seconds later, their clothes and hair are perfectly dry. more
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Grocery Boy:
Mrs. Hooper?
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Referenced in Monster Squad Forever! (2007) (V) more
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I had to make a comment simply because most of those I've read have missed part of the point.
William Katt is an author dealing with a number of emotional challenges all at the same time. All these things start fraying at his psychological health; he's not coping well.
What's haunting him most of all is the guilt he feels over an incident while he was serving in Vietnam. His buddy is wounded, and requests that William kill him, but William runs "for help" and his buddy is captured, to suffer torture as a POW.
His ordeal at this time in his life that we watch through the movie is his final process of dealing with that guilt.
Along the way, we are treated to that unique genre of horror-comedy. And, make no mistake, it is both funny and frightening.
The difficult thing is the direction, which tries to suggest that what he sees (and what we, the audience see) is not what others see. These things are presented so as to fool him, and us, into thinking they are in fact "real." By the time we get to the end, we see what the real deal is.
It's not perfect, but it was fun.