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<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="592" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">    <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="205" align="right"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p align="right"><img border="0" src="../stills/houseofhorrors-poster.jpg" width="200" height="282"></td> </tr> </table> <p>In time for Halloween, Tim (Tim Bunch) plans to open the latest attraction of his "House of Horrors", the "Gates of Hell" - but now his team has less than a month time to make up the thing from scratch and deal with all the other problems haunted houses almost naturally experience for Halloween - having to do with them being underused during the rest of the year, thus there might be power issues, safety issues and the like. Pretty much, the House of Horrors is like a beehive, so nobody at all even notices two of Tim's employees (Kyle Garrison, Brenda Rickert) gone missing ... and of course, nobody can even begin to suspect that the two of them were killed in rather horrible ways, as the haunted house attraction is actually indeed ... haunted.<p>On photos taken for publicity, House of Horrors co-workers Jamie (Danielle Tewell), Codie (Codie Kremblas) and Dusty (Michael Riso) find some strange phenomena, but while the guys think little of it, Jamie, who has some psychics in her family line, is sure it has to do with ghosts and demons, and somehow she manages to persuade her two male colleagues to visit a lecture of Father Michaels (Michael O'Hear), an exorcist fallen from grace who's now making the big dough selling books on the occult, while she does some soul searching - which includes listening to the voices of her dead relatives -, and they all come to the same conclusion: Somewhere in the haunted house there is an unholy altar that's actually a lock to the gates of hell, an altar that needs to be taken care of ... which is easier said than done when Tim the owner of the place is actually the guardian of the altar - and what exactly means "needs to be taken care of" even?<p> <p>True, <b>House of Horrors: Gates of Hell</b> might not be the most original horror film - but what it is is fun fun fun! Basically, it takes quite a few elements from <i><b><a href="../research/resultserieslinks.shtml?Lucio Fulci's Gothic Trilogy">Lucio Fulci's Gothic Trilogy</a></b></i>, some slasher mainstays, a dose of self-irony that's just enough to not turn the movie into a farce, and plenty of haunted house attraction elements, puts them into a blender, mixes them up quite a bit ... and the outcome is a light-footed horror movie with plenty of shocks and creepiness, gory bits and monsters, and enough gruesome scenes to keep (at least) the horror fans glued to their seats ... and even if the story might not totally hold up upon close investigation, it works while watching and keeps one greatly entertained! <p>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2015"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>