Horror House on Highway 5. Richard Casey, 1985.
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Edition screened: Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray #135, released 2016. English language. Runtime approximately 88 minutes.
Summary: Murdered cat.
Details: The formulaic cheap move: a dead cat is discovered as some vague warning of some sort. This time, a bloody white cat found in a van at 33:40, then taken to a trash can through 34:08.
Low-budget Horror House on Highway 5 was director Casey’s first film and is surprisingly good and creative. The predictable, unfortunate inclusion of the formulaic murdered cat is the low point and brings the whole production down a level in creativity and respectability.
One very noticeable success of the film is Casey’s use of humor. Horror House was made around the time that pop horror movies become infested with stupid pushy jokes that make them almost unwatchable. The Mutilator, for example. Casey’s quick silly bits of humor are well acted and actually made me smile, as opposed to the endless barrage of overly-written juvenile jokes that make me want to turn off many similar films.