The Halfway House (2004)

User Rating:

2.6/10   

Director:

Kenneth J. Hall

Writers:

Kenneth J. Hall (writer)
H.P. Lovecraft (inspiration)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror

Tagline:

Halfway between our world... and theirs!

Plot:

Young girls are disappearing in and around the Mary Magdalen Halfway House for Troubled Girls. Desperate to find out what became of her sister...

Plot Keywords:

Violence | Priest | Sadism | Nun | Sadist

Cast

Mary Woronov	...	Sister Cecelia
Janet Tracy Keijser	...	Larissa Morgan
Shawn Savage	...	Sgt. Dick Sheen
Stephanie Leighs	...	'Cherry Pie' Polowski
Athena Demos	...	Angelena
Monica Shere	...	Eddie
Joseph Tatner	...	Father Fogerty
Michael Gaglio	...	Inspector Hinds (as Mike Gaglio)
Cleve Hall	...	Lutkus
Tomi X.	...	Sheila
Saye Yabandeh	...	Shelby
M. Robert Todd	...	Spider
Ashley Fires	...	Annie (as Ashley Rhea)
Arianna	...	Halfway House Girl #1
Tawnya Johnson	...	Halfway House Girl #2

MPAA:

Rated R for strong sexuality/nudity, horror violence and language.

Runtime:

90 min (unrated version) | 85 min (R-rated version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:R

Filming Locations:

Lincoln Heights Jail - 401 N. Avenue 19, Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

BV Entertainment Inc.

Trivia:

Miskatonic University is mentioned by Ofc. Sheen to Larissa, who queries "where have I heard that before?" This is a reference to H.P. Lovecraft, who used this fictitious University in some of his stories, notably "Re-Animator."

Movie Connections:

References Jaws (1975)

Soundtrack:

Holy, Holy, Holy

Campy Schlock Crap From The Writer Of PUPPET MASTER

OH LORD this one sucks. Pseudo-Lovecraftian garbage with very little gore, a few tits (but NO full-frontal), horrible acting - oh Christ, I give up - the list of negatives about this film is just way too long and encompasses just about every aspect of this piece of trash.

The super-condensed version (because that's all this crap deserves): Girls are disappearing around an all-girl halfway house and being fed to a monster that lives in the basement by the head nun. The police and one of the missing girls' sisters gets involved in the "investigation"...

In case you haven't already gathered- I pretty much hated this "film". Posing as a modern exploit film but not having the balls to take the concept all the way - THE HALFWAY HOUSE is a let-down all the way through. I don't know if this film was supposed to be loosely based on one of H.P. Lovecraft's works - but there are references to the Necronomicon, Miskatonic University, the town of Arkham, etc...that would probably cause ol' H.P. to rise from his grave and slaughter everyone involved in this waste-of-film if he would ever have had the misfortune to witness it. Anyway...unless you REALLY dig schlocky, no-budget, SOV/STV, camp-horror with virtually no gore and not nearly enough nudity - leave this one on the shelf...2/10