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Boarding House

John Wintergate (Actor, Director) Rated:
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Format: DVD
3.1 out of 5 stars 16 customer reviews
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Product Details

  • Actors: John Wintergate
  • Directors: John Wintergate
  • Format: Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Rated:
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  • Studio: Olive Films DVD
  • DVD Release Date: October 27, 2015
  • Run Time: 98 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B013GGTPZA
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #35,301 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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4.0 out of 5 starsSeperates the the REAL exploitation fans from the tourists...
By A. Copp on November 15, 2009
Format: DVD
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.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Masterpiece of "Bad" 80s Horror! (Focus--white light!)
By Lemmy Caution on February 15, 2010
Format: DVD
I recommend this film to anyone who wants to laugh until their stomach muscles ache. I first saw it, about 10 years ago, at a screening at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, presented by Bill Landis, author of Sleazoid Express, an excellent book on exploitation cinema. "Modern Art" aptly describes this shot-on-video time capsule of awful early-1980s clothing, hairstyles, computer graphics, and extremely cheesy music and pathetic "special effects". The end result?

A masterpiece of horror that defies description. Throw in the most ridiculous script, dialogue and acting outside of an Ed Wood or H.G. Lewis film -- and you're in for a wild ride! We were falling out of our seats at the SF MOMA, shaking with uncontrollable laughter, and dumbstruck with awe that Boardinghouse was ever made, that it actually existed in the same universe as our own.

A recent (shaky) on-camera interview with director Wintergate and star Kalassu is interesting chiefly for their attempt to convince us that the film was meant to be a spoof -- and that their efforts at parody were overruled by the producer, who apparently believe Boardinghouse would work better as a serious horror movie! I'm not sure what to believe.

The transfer quality is about what you'd expect -- high-def digital video cameras didn't exist in 1982 -- and the filmmakers claim this was shot in "broadcast-quality" video, then transferred to 35mm celluloid for theatrical projection. Huh. Most of it still manages to look as if they used consumer-grade equipment typical of the time. This disc was apparently transferred off the original video source material, so it's certainly watchable (as well as laughable).

Don't take my word for it: rent or buy this movie, and you will realize that your life could never be complete until you've seen Boardinghouse -- and stay with it right until the mind-melting, soul-shattering, bloodcurdling finale: FOCUS! WHITE LIGHT! FOCUS! WHITE LIGHT!
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3.0 out of 5 starsInsane, bizarre, demented do not describe this freakshow!
By J. Wingenfeld on May 15, 2008
Format: DVD
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.
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4.0 out of 5 stars80s video trash that's not for everyone
By Grindhouse and Horror on July 4, 2013
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
As mentioned in the commentary, this 80s trash movie was filmed on broadcast video. While some 80s horror flicks will appeal to a large audience, this isn't one of them. Although it's bizarre and somewhat unique in parts, it will bore many. The story involves a guy with strong psychic powers, a cursed boarding house, and a never fully seen insane mental patient (or maybe he's possessed by the boarding house ghost,or he is actually the ghost wearing black gloves) who has bizarre psychic powers and has escaped from an institution. This never fully seen maniac or demon basically makes weird breathing noises and motions with his hands to unleash these powers to kill. Some of the stuff he does is make the intestines of one guy fall out through his shirt, makes another girl bleed, and another woman's eyes bulge and fall out. The haunted house is causing problems as well, with stuff like a bloody shower hallucination and other stuff. There's a decent body count, and the film has good looking women with plenty of nudity; there's some flashes of full frontal. One thing that I thought really stands out is the electronic sounding music which is excellent; the film is so cheap, but it has got a very well done main score. The ending of the film showcases a psychic fight between the good guy and the boarding house ghost, and it's particularly cheesy and funny with atrocious acting; this is a memorable scene of bad filmmaking. The problem with the flick is that it has some boring filler scenes in between the nudity and violence, but I still really like it because it's a memorable piece of cheese and bad cinema.

The DVD quality on this release from CODE RED is pretty good considering it's such a cheap video movie from the 80s, but I'm a little disappointed. It would've been more enjoyable with better quality. The commentary is good and there's the excellent main soundtrack playing during the menu screen.
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