| Don't Go in the House | |
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| Directed by | Joseph Ellison |
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| Story by | Joe Masefield |
| Produced by | Ellen Hammill |
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| Cinematography | Oliver Wood |
| Edited by | Jane Kurson |
| Music by | Richard Einhorn |
Production company | Turbine Films Inc. |
| Distributed by | Film Ventures International |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $250,000 |
| Box office | $2.95 million[1] |
Don't Go in the House[i] is a 1980 American slasher film written and directed by Joseph Ellison, written by Ellen Hammill and Joe Masefield, and starring Dan Grimaldi. Its plot follows a disturbed man who, after suffering an abusive childhood in which his mother punished him with burning, becomes a pyromaniac and serial killer who kidnaps and burns alive any women who resemble her.
Filmed in the historic Strauss Mansion in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey from February-March 1979, Don't Go in the House was released one year later in the spring of 1980, and was met with sharp criticism from film critics due to its graphic depictions of violence, particularly a sequence in which the protagonist burns a nude woman alive with a flamethrower.
- ^ Donahue, Suzanne Mary (1987). American film distribution : the changing marketplace. UMI Research Press. p. 294. Please note figures are for rentals in US and Canada
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