Pyromaniac

Original title: Don't Go in the House

1979
R
1h 22m

IMDb RATING

5.6/10

5.6K

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A disturbed young man who was burned as a child by his sadistic mother stalks women with a flamethrower.

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A disturbed young man who was burned as a child by his sadistic mother stalks women with a flamethrower.A disturbed young man who was burned as a child by his sadistic mother stalks women with a flamethrower.A disturbed young man who was burned as a child by his sadistic mother stalks women with a flamethrower.

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IMDb RATING

5.6/10

5.6K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
The actresses who played the burns victims were dancers chosen because they were the same height as the actresses playing the victims, but significantly slimmer in build. This is because when the human body is subjected to burns it shrinks due to a loss of fluid.

Goofs
When the first victim, Kathy Jordan, is in the steel room, you see Donny pour the accelerant on her torso and she is visibly wet. The next scene shows her dry again on the torso.

Quotes
Donny Kohler: You hear that old lady, i'll punish you again.

Alternate versions
The original UK cinema version was cut by the BBFC and the film later found itself on the DPP 72 list of video nasties. The 1987 UK video release was heavily cut by 3 minutes 7 secs and extensively reduced shots of nudity and graphic closeups from the scene of the chained woman being burned alive.

Connections
Featured in Dusk to Dawn Drive-In Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 1 (1996)

Soundtracks
Dancin' Close to You
Produced by Murri Barber
Composed by Ted Daryll
Performed by The Daryll/Barber Band

User reviews115

Featured review

6/10

Donny boy has got a special talent of enticing women inside his house.

I first saw this in the late 80s on a vhs.

Revisited it recently.

Donny keeps hearing his dead mother's dominating voices as the body of his mother is still kept in the house a la Psycho style.

Donny, inspite of being an introvert, somehow succeeds in picking up females n is able to lure them in his house.

Donny's house is a brilliant piece of location and adds an eerie sense.

Coming to the bad points, the movie is very slow. Nothing happens in the first 50 mins or so n most of the killings r offscreen.

The end too is a big meh.

What happens to the poor priest is never shown.

The movie has zero tension n zero suspense.

One can call it a poor man's version of Psycho n Deranged.