(1983)
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Donald Guarisco
Some movies are so bad they're good, some movies are so bad they hurt and some movies are so bad they represent a mind-altering experience. Boarding House is one of those films that occupy that rare third category. This shot-on-video production is a truly scatterbrained affair: sometimes it goes for shock horror, sometimes it goes for goofball laughs and other times it seems to be a vanity project for director/star John Wintergate and his wife Kalassu (she also provides several rock songs for the soundtrack and performs during the party-scene finale). Boarding House changes moods and styles so many times (without ever getting any of them right) that it might leave the viewer feeling they have been drugged. As a result, Boarding House isn't scary in the least but it gets under the viewer's skin in a way a more coherent effort ever could. That doesn't mean Boarding House is any good -- it definitely is not -- but it is a truly brain-frying experience that is likely to fascinate those with a yen for low-budget dementia.
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Boarding House (1983)
