The House on Tombstone Hill, Psycho Old Lady

Today we look at a Troma offering. Sure, a psycho old lady may not pack the wallop of a Freddie or a Jason, but we have one even bloodier than any Freddie film or Jason film.  Guts will pour out. Limbs will be severed. Faces will be slashed. Torsos will be cut in half. Hunks and babes will be impaled or done in with the blade of a circular saw.  Oh yes...blood will spatter, just like in those Japanese horror films. Today we look at 1989's "The House on Tombstone Hill" (on TubiTV as "Dead Dudes in the House"), directed by James Riffel.

College aged hunks and babes converge on an old mansion way out in the wilderness. The place has long since been abandoned ever since the crazy old lady there axed some schmuck. Mark (Douglas Griffin) has bought the place to restore it.  His nubile GF Jamie (Sarah Newhouse) is very supportive, though his buddies are crude and determined to drink beer. Uh oh, one of the hunks destroys a gravestone in the front yard bringing back the old lady and her axe.  They'll meet her soon. They enter the house and are intimidated by all the work that must be done. Mark will meet the old lady first and be slashed by her...he dies...but comes back in the form of a smart-ass homicidal zombie. One by one, either Mark or the old lady kills the hunks and babes.  Each corpse comes back as one of these malicious ghouls.  Even if they have been cut in half or had a limb severed, the things put themselves back together and stalk the living.

Bob (Victor Verhaeghe), the crudest of the hunks, emerges as leader of the group.  He crafts a circular saw blade weapon which will quickly be commandeered by the undead.  The old lady and her new minions goes through these hunks and babes like crap through a goose.  Ron (Mark Zobian) grabs a golf club and uses it nicely...though killing something that is already dead will prove challenging.  When the numbers of the hunks and babes diminish, two kids with nothing to do with anything  decide to sneak into the house.  This will be a veritable gore-fest.

Not for the weakest of stomachs, but this 1980s horror film maximizes the gore and blood.  Just who is this old lady and what does she want?  Will any of the babes in this film stand-out in such a way that they may earn the title of "Final Girl"?  Is the fact that none of the characters are likable an indication that no one will survive?  Bloody and vicious, see "The House on Tombstone Hill" if you can take the extreme gore.