
A gang of vicious young punks break into the house of an elderly couple, terrorize, and then murder them. Suddenly, the clocks in the house begin to run backwards, and the dead come back for revenge!... (Full plot summary below)
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A gang of vicious young punks break into the house of an elderly couple, terrorize, and then murder them. Suddenly, the clocks in the house begin to run backwards, and the dead come back for revenge!
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| User ReviewDoc OFulci delivers again. Has an amazing (if highly taboo) scene showing love and hate at once, and a new spin on nilistic endings. The filming is kept very tight throughout and I ended up not caring about some of the odder aspects of the plot. |
| User ReviewRobert HThis is in my opinion an underrated movie by Fulci. If you´re in to 80s horror and value creepy feelings and odd characters this is for you. |
| User ReviewAl MAwesome later Fulci film. Original plot, creepy atmosphere, blood, horror, old people hellbent on destruction...A nice surprise after films like Murder Rock in the mid 80s. |
| User ReviewBrandi JThe sweet old couple who are not what they seem are brilliant. Truly deserve to enter the horror canon as adorned creepy villains. While the home invaders might just be the dumbest humans ever. I think it was all the pot they smoked. Otherwise, incredibly gory considering it was made for TV - nails driven through necks, panty sniffing, shot gun blasts, animal cruelty, and did you know that our intestines are actually worms? Story makes absolutely NO SENSE! |
| User ReviewMike PThis was a crazy horror flick. I enjoyed it! Lucio Fulci was the MAN!! |
| User ReviewAlex ra movie about a couple's house full of clocks that turn back time so that the couple can come back from the dead to exact their revenge on some burglars. an above average fulci flick. pretty cool story |
| User ReviewJonathan YCertainly not one of Fulci's greatest films, and definitely one which runs out of steam before the end, House of Clocks is nevertheless well worth seeing for its striking central conceit and the title location itself, a sinister Gothic mansion full of clocks of impressive and odd old clocks. The mansion is owned by a crazy old couple who murder their relatives and servants when they fail to live up to their standards. A trio of trash decide to do a home invasion on these weird old coves, and get a lot more than they bargained for. At an important point in the story, the old couple are killed and their clocks stop when they die (like My Grandfather's clock!); then they start running backwards. The dead are resurrected and the killers get killed. Or do they, as time keeps spinning back and forth, in and out of dream-time. The film finally suggests that time is not linear, can flow (as the quantum physicists tell us) in either direction, but in Fulci's unnerving vision in all directions is a violent death. Not that any of the characters deserve much better, as this every-which-way time travel is entirely populated by monsters. Some of them are old and rich, some of them are poor and young; all of them are irredeemably nasty. La Casa nel tempo is certainly hokey at times, and the currently available UK DVD is appallingly dubbed - but there's more going on here than in your average B movie horror, some of it is lovingly filmed (mostly the clocks), there's some campy laughs and some truly gory moments. Give it a go, if you've got the time... |
| User ReviewMike MFulci at it again. Bad, really really bad. Much better than of Troll 2. Great ending. |
| User ReviewMark DMeh pretty good for a made for TV movie (and gory too) but feels too slapped together |
| User ReviewOrlok WMade for TV movie ala Fulci. Very cheap. By this point there was little to no budget and it shows. One or two bits of decent gore, but thats about it. Gone are the glory days. For completists only. |