Dead Dudes in the House

Dead Dudes in the House
Original VHS Cover. None of the actors featured on the cover are in the actual movie.
Directed by James Riffel
Produced by Mark Bladis
Melissa Lawes
James Riffel
Written by James Riffel
Starring
  • James Griffin
  • John Dayton Cerna
  • Sarah Newhouse
  • Douglas Gibson
  • Victor Verhaeghe
  • Mark Zobian
Edited by Valerie Schwartz
Distributed by Troma Entertainment
Release date
 1991
Running time
 95 minutes
Language English

Dead Dudes in the House, originally titled The Dead Come Home and sometimes released as The House on Tombstone Hill,[1][2] is a 1991 independent horror film written and directed by James Riffel and distributed by Troma Entertainment.

For reasons unknown, Troma advertises the characters in Dead Dudes as "hip-hop teens", as evidenced by the actors on the green VHS cover (who do not appear in the movie), despite the fact that there is no reference to hip-hop of any kind throughout the entire movie. [This has since been corrected on the yellow cover for the 2010 Amazon.com DVD-R release.]

According to Troma president Lloyd Kaufman's book All I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger, Troma fans consider Dead Dudes in the House to be one of the company's unsung masterpieces.

Plot

The film follows a group of teenagers who travel up to a dilapidated house for some fixing up. Unbeknownst to them, the house is occupied by a murderous old woman and her sultry daughter, who proceed to pick the teens off one by one.

Cast

  • James Griffin
  • J. D. Cerna (billed as John Dayton Cerna)
  • Sarah Newhouse
  • Douglas Gibson
  • Victor Verhaeghe
  • Mark Zobian
  • Rob Moretti

Release

The VHS and DVD of the film are both available on Amazon and eBay. Createspace has made the film available on a DVD-R via Amazon.

In September 2018, American distributor Vinegar Syndrome released the film on Blu-ray as The House on Tombstone Hill.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Albright, Brian (2012). "New York". Regional Horror Films, 1958-1990: A State-by-state Guide with Interviews. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co, Inc. pp. 249–50.
  2. ↑ Willis, Donald C (1997). Horror and Science Fiction Films IV. Scarecrow Press. p. 114. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
  3. ↑ "The House on Tombstone Hill (Slipcover) – Vinegar Syndrome". vinegarsyndrome.com. Retrieved 2018-09-21.
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