The Dead Come Home

During my sophomore year of college, my roommate and I rented just about every video from the shlock-horror section of Oasis Video in Salt Lake City. (I hope Oasis is still there). Run back to back with movies like Reanimator, Basket Case, The Evil Dead trilogy and Dead Alive, (plus ALL the Troma we could eat) I thought Dead Dudes was remarkably good. Low budget, funny, kinda creepy, and the best kind of ending:unhappy! I recommend viewing this with a 976-EVIL for maximum horror movie pleasure.

"The Dead Come Home", "Dead Dudes in the House" or "The House on Tombstone Hill" is a unique horror movie. It doesn't really have characters that are all that interesting, but what it does have is a an interesting premise that is done really well, style, humour, gore and a surprising amount of physical fights between the characters. It's a good movie for the genre lovers that clearly had thought and love put into it and I think it deserves at least a 6.5/10, a whole point+ more than the rating currently is. The whole thing could have been even better if the characters were more interesting and the budget was higher. It's not a masterpiece, but it's a good movie that will provide you with 90 minutes of fun, especially if you are a genre fan! If you are a casual though, you won't find anything deep here. It's a fun movie that doesn't take itself too seriously and that's pretty much it...

Bob Griffith (AKA Scott Rhodes) here. Glad to see that many of you have found this film and enjoy it. This was the first feature film that I stunt coordinated almost 20 years ago!!!!!!!!!!! I had a great experience shooting this film. A fun time up in Cherry Valley NY at a great location shooting a low budget horror flick. It was a very tight cast and crew. I remember doing some horseback riding and going to the Baseball Hall Of Fame with some of the cast and crew...And we had a gourmet cook who did all of the cooking and deserts(Some of the best food I have had on ANY set since...OK'Buffy The Vampire Slayer" was close behind!

Way back when Troma would release anything (okay...they've ALWAYS released anything), this film came out of their vault o'horror with an interesting premise: dudes renovate haunted house, some get possessed by evil spirits, end up trying to kill each other. ...as if you couldn't guess the plot from the title.

Yep, "Dead Dudes in the House" is about as low budget as possible and makes no apologies for what it is. In fact, it revels in its origins and goes for the shock, gross-out and gore from frame one to frame last. Gotta appreciate that; not all movies have that kind of conviction.

But in the end, it all is just kind of left there on the screen. Having seen multitudes of similar films in my day, I hadn't seen anything here that I hadn't before. What I did appreciate, however, was the fact that a bunch of guys with cameras, little money and an idea got something filmed, produce and distributed.

Bless 'em. And bless Troma, too.

Six stars for the "Dudes", plus a star extra for making it this far. Way to go, blood!

Finally found this movie on DVD bluray from Vinegar Syndrome. Saw this movie years ago on VHS and couldn't remember the name but happily stumbled upon it.