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Reviewed by Coventry 5 / 10

The house is fine, but poor Christina is surrounded by freaks!

"Christina's House" is a horror movie typical for its era of release. The genre's output was far from great during the late-90s/early 2000s, but crews and (especially) casts did their stinking best to make the films mysterious and attractive. This effort from the unknown director Gavin Wilding is poor, forgettable, and quite preposterous in terms of script and plot twists, but it's also undeniably compelling thanks to a curiously unsettling atmosphere and plenty of weirdo characters.Stunningly beautiful Christina Tarling seems to live a carefree, like any 17-year-old girl should, but she has a few concerns on her mind. She lives in a rental house in remote Washington (the state) but must look after her younger brat of a brother because her father combines two jobs. Her mother is in a mental hospital, her intrusive boyfriend only thinks about sleeping with her, her diary keeps disappearing from the drawer, and there are strange noises coming from the attic at night! Unlike the title implies, the problem isn't so much the house... It's all the weirdoes that surround cute Christina. Her father is the worst. He glances at his daughter and grabs her unexpectedly by the waist like no father ever should; regardless of how gorgeous she looks. Apart from the obsessively horny boyfriend and idiot kid brother, there's also a socially incapable handyman and a really uncanny cop. Oh, and did I mention that innocent young girls are being killed off in and around the house?The film tries to be a mix between grisly slasher and clever whodunit but sadly fails at both. The kills are either off-screen or bloodless, and none of the red herrings or attempts to mislead the viewer regarding the killer's identity have any effect. In the end, the culprit is the person whom you expected from the very first second. And yet, there are fun little details that make "Christina's House" worth watching. The final act (= end battle with the killer) is long but fairly suspenseful, and there's the ingenious gimmick of a trapdoor leading to a cool circle-saw death trap! And, of course, there's Christina herself. Actress Allison Lange is ravishing in a role that would have gone to Kirsten Dunst or Alicia Silverstone if it hadn't been a cheap B-movie. Miss Lange also isn't too shy to show a bit of naked flesh, and even when she's dressed in tank tops the camera is always fixated on her perky nipples.

Reviewed by Jakealope 3 / 10

Cheesy Teen Horror Flick, Mediocre Even By Genre's Standards

First off, being a library loan, it was free, so it's easier to be charitable when no money was spent. But I will have to talk to the local library for content control, cause this one had no redeeming value to it.Allison Lange, playing the titular role, is the usual excuse for a teenage girl growing up in a stressful household. Of course, she is hot as hell and gives the movie the cheesy sex appeal, including some mammary gland shots and lots of skimpy revealing clothes. But she is no great actor. Even John Savage, the one big name actor, playing her angry father with hints of incest and abuse thrown in, delivers a stunningly pathetic performance. The plot is totally convoluted. You see they live in this old rental house for months, yet there is some person who lives in the attic, between the walls, basement etc who created this whole second set of rooms that of course none of the three residents of record, including her manipulative video gaming brother, ever happened on. So this fourth resident starts killing young girls, apparently for no real reason though at the end we learn that this killer was someone that her psycho mother sent to watch over her daughter. Apparently Dad moved them to rural Washington state to be near their psycho wife-mother in some asylum, but for one time, they never visited her. So there is this whole poorly executed psycho-drama routine- is Christina crazy by genetics, or maybe her father-local sheriff-obnoxious boyfriend or the weird Brad Pitt look-a-like handyman is the fourth resident and/or killer.There is one scene that really exposed the plot for being weak and pedestrian. The killer, for reasons that will never make sense, lured Christina's boyfriend's ex girl friend over to the house so the killer could do her in, why? When Christina finds the rival's body in the stream in front of their house, they call the police. So the one creepy sheriff shows up and there is one scene where he interviews all the witnesses in the house, Christina, her brother, friend and, even though he was not there when they found the body, her crummy boyfriend. So it devolves into a shouting match between between creepy sheriff and boyfriend. You'd think they would spring for some paramedics, coroner, more cops, etc since some local girl was murdered and dumped and maybe that would get the whole small town, where everyone knows and cares about each other, riled up. But no, just a stupid pointless confrontation between sheriff and boyfriend. The director could have bribed local first responder versions to play themselves for a pittance, free wings or new gear, but not even one ambulance.Nobody expects great plots or acting in such movies. But when these elements slip through the floor, along with a host of stinking red herrings, that is what constitutes a poor slasher, non psycho drama movie. Even the one authentic creepy element, the link between her psycho mom and the killer, was never even developed which could have been a real avenue of horror and drama. A better plot and acting would have made it a worthwhile genre standard,

Reviewed by BloodTheTelepathicDog 4 / 10

All in all, disappointing///spoilers

I wanted a haunted house movie, but instead got a deranged lunatic flick.Allison Lange, as Christina, is obviously the main draw here. Her stunning beauty kept me going, even when it became obvious that this wasn't going to appeal to me.After placing their mother in a looney bin, Christina, her brother and father move into a new house. Everyone seems comfortable in their new setting except for Christina. She can't take a bath in peace, finds cookie crumbs all over her room and is pressured by her father to be a pseudo mother figure to her little brother. All of this piles up on her, and she finds herself following in her crazy mother's footsteps.The cast isn't very likable. Lange does an adequate job but John Savage as her father is better, as well as Jerry Wasserman portraying a tough guy cop. Christina's brother and best friend were not appealing actors at all, and Brendan Fehr has come a long way since this.Only redeemable quality is Allison Lange taking a bath. That's it.

Christina's House

2000

Action / Crime / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

Christina's House

2000

Action / Crime / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

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Movie Reviews

The house is fine, but poor Christina is surrounded by freaks!

Cheesy Teen Horror Flick, Mediocre Even By Genre's Standards

All in all, disappointing///spoilers

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