Avoid at all costs

I have to disagree with you. I, too, recorded this from the Horror channel, and I viewed it recently. Having watched a lot of crap in my time, I can safely say that this is a solid 5/10, leaning towards a six - and that's not bad for a recent horror/thriller film.

While I do agree that the improbabilities are far too many to be believed, I did enjoy a lot of the film. For example, Steven Weber was great as a maddened father hell bent on getting his house back; and I must say that I felt for him, especially when he was in the attic and thought that the Gates kids were his own. I may be slightly biased here, for Weber is one of my favourite actors, but I feel he played the part well.

Further, I enjoyed the more comical aspects of the film. The Scrabble scene ("Are you waiting for us to die?") had me in stitches.

Another thing I must give the film credit for is one of its death scenes. When Weber's character (I can't remember the first name, though I'm sure his last was 'Webber') killed his wife using the garbage disposal, I was glad to see that instead of showing the whole thing, all we saw was the blood and bits of skull hitting Webber's face and shirt.

Of course, there were many, many things wrong with this film. Clichés in abundance, first of all, but also cripplingly bad death scenes (the vacuum cleaner comes to mind) and terrible exposition (oh, you just so happen to be an expert in guns, huh?). I also feel that the film lost a lot of credibility when the nanny slept with the son - for money; that was utterly ridiculous and had no place in the narrative.

Oh, and the last ten minutes sucked.

However, the film had enough good points (Weber's acting, Silverman's acting, an interesting revenge story, the 'friendship' between Webber and the kid, etc.) to sustain my interest, which is more than I can say for most films screened on the Horror channel.

This was absolute crap. He takes down everyone including the well built boyfriend using physical force but then can't go toe to toe with a spoilt teenage girl.
Sure its a cliche to keep the feminist happy but its nothing we haven't seen a thousand times before, better.
None of the characters were likeable but at least the actor playing the killer was good.

Nothing happens til the last forgettable 10mins.

If you must watch this fast forward to the last 10 minutes.
Awful.

Where can I see it?

Not all bad but the original film from 1986 is ten times better. Can't go wrong with nazi's and Klaus Kasinski

Agreed. I enjoy bad films, bad horror/suspense films even more but this was far from enjoyable on many levels.

I'm amazed at how similar, with little plot differences, it is to Hider in the House.

I watched it last night 3\10


Rob Zombie is one of the greatest directors today

Actually thought it was pretty enjoyable. All of the death scenes were pretty violent and original, and Steven Weber made a great lunatic. It felt like a typical 'family moves into creepy house' horror with a mix of Black Christmas. Definitely a fun way to pass 90 minutes.