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3.3/10   1,267 votes
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Stuart Allison (written by)
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Release Date:
24 February 2000 (Malaysia) more
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Tagline:
Stay Awake. Breathe your Life depends on it.
Plot:
The teenager Christina, her younger brother Bobby, and their father James Tarling moves to a rented... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Low Paced, Low Budget, But Deserves to Be Watched more (58 total)

Cast

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Brendan Fehr ... Eddy Duncan

Brad Rowe ... Howie Rhodes

Allison Lange ... Christina Tarling

John Savage ... James Tarling
Lorne Stewart ... Bobby Tarling
Crystal Buble ... Karen

Jerry Wasserman ... Sheriff Mark Sklar

Chelsea Hobbs ... Suzy Cooper
Sigrid M. Spade ... Michelle
Chilton Crane ... Joanne Tarling

Linden Banks ... Dr. David Lescher
Zuzana Marlow ... Nurse
David Abbott ... Mr. Fox
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for violence, language and some sexuality.
Runtime:
Australia:97 min | Colombia:96 min | France:93 min | USA:96 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Continuity: Blood completely disappears from the hammer after the attack. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Wisher (2002) more
Soundtrack:
Grunts more

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7 out of 8 people found the following comment useful.
Low Paced, Low Budget, But Deserves to Be Watched, 30 August 2005
7/10
Author: Claudio Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The teenager Christina (Allison Lange), her younger brother Bobby (Lorne Stewart), and their father James Tarling (John Savage) moves to a rented house in Avedon, a small town in Washington, to be close to Christina's mother Joanne (Chilton Crane), who is interned in an asylum. The house is being repaired by Howie Rhodes (Brad Rowe) and Christina has a boy friend, the bad boy Eddy Duncan (Brendan Fehr). While in the house, Christina hears noises and has a permanent feeling that another person lives there, but her father believes it is the structure being settled. When two teenagers vanishes, the weird Sheriff Mark Sklar (Jerry Wasserman) visits the Tarling family, since the last place the teenagers were seen alive was nearby their home. When a dead body is found in a river close to the house, the Sheriff investigates the place, trying to find the guilty for the crime.

"Christina's House" is low paced, low budget but it is not a bad horror movie. The screenplay plays with very few characters, maybe due to the limitation of the budget, the viewer knows that one of them is the serial killer, but there is no clue along the story indicating who the criminal is. Although quite exaggerated when the mystery is disclosed, I found the twist acceptable and I liked the open end. The character of the Sheriff is too much weird, but maybe it was intentional to include him as a possible suspect. With regard to the highlighted goof, the killer sucked the blood on the hammer, therefore the blood has not disappeared from the hammer as mentioned in IMDb. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "A Casa da Morte" ("The House of the Death")

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