Product Details

• Actors: R.L. Stine, Kathryn Short, Cody Jones, Scott Wickware, Hamille Rustia
• Directors: Craig Pryce, Randy Bradshaw
• Writers: Andrea Raffaghello, Scott Peters
• Producers: Masa Mikage, Thomas L. Wilhite
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Live, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• VHS Release Date: September 23, 1997
• Run Time: 42 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304563752
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #195,495 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

For Josh and Amanda, having to move to the remote, desolate town of Dark Falls was bad enough. But as soon as they moved into Dead House, things began to happen, things their parents couldn't see -- a ghostly shape at the window, a shadow on the wall, the way their dog kept growling at strangers, the quiet, death-pale neighbor kids. Was it the chemical spill that made the people of Dark Falls so strange, or something far more sinister?

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A GOOD FAMILY HORROR, January 26, 2006

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Tim Janson (Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Goosebumps - Welcome to Dead House (DVD)

Welcome to Dead House is a pretty good family horror edition of Goose Bumps with some genuine, but not too intense scares for young one. A family of four moves into an old house in a town called Dark Falls. The name Dark Falls is appropriate as it always seems to be dark in the town. Even when the sun is out, the large, overgrown trees seem to always block it out. Josh and Amanda are the two kids that immediately have bad feelings about the town. They meet up with some other kids in town who act very strange and are very pale.

Of course the parents are typical, unbelieving parents who dismiss the kid's as just having bad dreams or the like. But the whole family will soon learn the tragic secret of Dead falls and of the hazardous chemical accident that forever changed the town years before. The film moves pretty well and provides a true sense of creepiness about the town and the new house the family is in. It's one you can watch with the whole family.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not that good..., July 5, 2004

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Goosebumps - Welcome to Dead House [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Okay the story itself *RULES* and has INCREDIBLE potential. But the actors and actresses ruin it fully. The father's acting is especially horrible. The story is a little slow in execution - it takes the girl about five minutes to walk up the stairs and into the room! In fact, the whole first twenty-five minutes of the film are uneventful slum.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Welcome to Dark Falls - USA, September 28, 2000

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Michael Myers (Auburn, NH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Goosebumps - Welcome to Dead House [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This has quickly become a family classic in our house, Particularly around Halloween. My 4 1/2, 8 1/2 and 10 years old girls love this one!

The story stems around a shady real estate salesman(aren't they all) whom offers a can't refuse deal to a unsuspecting family from 'out of town'. Unknown to the family, Dark Falls was the victim of some type of hazardous chemical spill a while back, causing the existing residents to become 'living dead'. Unfortunately for these 'living dead' corpses, they are dependent on 'the living' for nourishment.

Thus, they use this one piece of real estate property - AKA Dead House - as 'bait' to unsuspecting family's in order to feed. Without disclosing the whole storyline, I must say the thing with the dog at the end adds a nice touch. Well worth $10. I've spent twice that continually renting it at the video store!