Product Details

• Actors: Alexandra Day, John Wintergate, Kalassu
• Directors: John Wintergate
• Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Code Red/Navarre Corporation
• DVD Release Date: April 29, 2008
• Run Time: 97 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001302URC
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #80,591 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Boardinghouse" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

A man with telekinetic power inherits a big house with a horrible past. He opens the house up as a boarding house and very quickly becomes inhabited by a group of gorgeous women. Soon the long sleeping evil supernatural power inhabiting the house starts killing off the tenants one by one.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Insane, bizarre, demented do not describe this freakshow!, May 15, 2008

By	J. Wingenfeld "warholhorror" (NYC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

BOARDINGHOUSE is a micro-budget shot-on-video horror movie which is arguably the first-ever direct-to-video movie ever produced (and almost definitely the first shot-on-video movie transferred to 35mm and shown in theaters). While at first glance it seems to be nothing more than a cheap piece of schlock shot in someone's backyard, what makes BOARDINGHOUSE stand out amid the hordes of other such movies is the movie's undeniably off-the-wall atmosphere, demented performances and amusingly ameteurish make-up and visual effects. The average viewer will no doubt be completely bewildered, but fans of underground horror and drive-in exploitation will be delighted by this unrelentingly weird little freakshow.

4.0 out of 5 stars Seperates the the REAL exploitation fans from the tourists..., November 15, 2009

By	A. Copp "topo872" (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

BOARDINGHOUSE is the kind of horror movie that is very rarely made anymore and is even more rarely appreciated for the out of touch with reality entertainment it offers. To put the movie in the right perspective the viewer has to watch it in the frame of mind that someone would have encountered it in 1981, stumbling into a Drive-in or grindhouse theater, probably assisted by some mind altering medication and being side swiped by this deviant blast of Northern Californication Occultic blarny. Boardinghouse takes you head, twists off the top and does unmentionable things to your gelatin matter whether you like it or not. The movie ENJOYS making a mess of your brain on a fifty cent budget.

Sure the acting is bad, the videography hurts your eyes at times, and the singing by the star is out of whack. But all of this adds up to the experience of being from an entirely different planet. A planet where a middle aged occult hustler just needs to put an ad in the Sunday paper to get a half dozen babes to move in with him and at the height of his powers can make a bar of soap zoom around the bath tub with his mind! It has boobs, gore and video generated shadow monsters! It was only the second movie ever to be shot on commercial video and released to theaters (the first being Frank Zappa's 200 MOTELS) so for that alone it is a landmark.

It is movies like BOARDINGHOUSE that separate real cult/exploitation film fans from the tourists who just watch the "cool" stuff that Fangoria or Maxim would feel safe recommending. Loving real trash like this alienates people, but once you get past that feeling that is where the real gems are.

The DVD from CODE RED is a labor of love with a riotous commentary and featurettes with the director and star these days.

3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Boring House, July 19, 2008

By	Desiree (Missouri, USA) - See all my reviews

OgeeeezGAWWwd!! Wow, this sucks the worse thing it could find. Best way to describe this mess...filmed as a cross between a daytime soap and a porn flick, meaning same exact quality of film, "effects" lol, music, directing and "acting". Oh, they threw some piles of red paint or whatever it is everywhere periodically so they could call it horror. Just take my word for it and save your money, it's not even worth one of those bunch of dollars that they have the nerve to ask for this junk. I like all of the Code Red releases of cheesy stuff I've seen, to some degree or another (The Forest, Sole Survivor, The Dead Pit, The Chilling) , but not this heap! I Always thought Sub Rosa Films were the worst, the way they film in that really bad home movie style with very poor or no acting/directing skills...until now. Those of you who have viewed any of those films know just what I mean. Well, this is WORSE.