Don't Go in the House (1979) - Newspaper Ad

San Francisco Examiner - August 14, 1980

Here was a release that managed to provide a memorable blip on my pop culture radar in 1980. That blip consists of my making a comment on how scary the ad made the movie look, to which my mother shot back it was just about torturing women in horrible ways and not the least bit scary. Just gross and cruel.

My mother's scathing commentary only made the concept of Don't Go in the House all the more frightening and disturbing to my thirteen year-old mind. What the hell was happening in that house? When I did manage to see the film on home video, it served as an example of a movie living up to the hype and hatred surrounding it. It was a genuinely unsettling film.

On a side note, this was one of a plethora of Don't titled movies that inspired my favorite fake trailer from 2007's Grindhouse.