Christina's House (2000)

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

The acting in this movie is really good.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

A girl selling cookies is brought into a house and killed. Christina and her young brother Bobby come home from school into the same house. They live there with their father James Tarling. Their mother is in a nearby asylum. Eddy Duncan is Christina's boyfriend and Karen is her friend. Howie Rhodes is the handyman repairing the house. Sheriff Mark Sklar investigates the missing girl.This is a cross between a murder mystery and a killer horror. It's flawed in both genre but it has an intriguing premise. The opening could lead to either a fine slasher movie or a fine whodunit. First, they need to hold on the house a bit longer. I had to rewind to ensure that both shots are the same house. The slasher part is not gory enough which limits its horror potential. The whodunit is undermined by the few possible suspects and the initial push for a monster in the attic. The potential never gets realized but it is interesting to contemplate.

Christina's House, keeps you at the edge of your seat through the whole movie, the ending you will probably never guess! It's awesome, gory. entertaining, and thrilling! I bought this without renting it, and i was scared that i would hate it, but i loved it!!! I guess the reason i liked this movie so much is because i have never seen a thriller or suspenseful movie like this in a long time! The movie's opening, i love it's so cool i love it, and the ending was very surprising, you will never guess it! It's definitely worth a rent, so the next time you go to your video store, check and see if they have this movie, and if they do give a rent, you will probably end up loving it, and you will think twice about trusting someone really close to you.

My name is actually Christina, so how could I go past this fantastically named movie? I wasn't expecting much as it was part of my 10 for $10 movie pack, but this movie turned out to be pretty good.Christina lives in a big house that made lots of noises, her dad is very protective and her mum was in a mental institution. Her boyfriend is that guy from Roswell with the sticky-up hair, well at least he was till he died from a hammer to the temple. Anyway, this was a decent horror film - not overly scary so that you don't want to walk to the toilet in the middle of the night lest a murderer get you , but creepy nonetheless. People died throughout and we didn't know who the killer was (though there were only really two suspects and one was far too obvious), and when we found out who, he was insane. He licked the blood from his murder weapon, ate a ladybird and had constructed a gruesome killing device. Plus the mum was freaky too. The very last shot was predictable but still effective. All round a pretty good film, I will be recommending it.

I wanted a haunted house movie, but instead got a deranged lunatic flick.Allison Lange, as Christina, is obviously the main draw here. Her stunning beauty kept me going, even when it became obvious that this wasn't going to appeal to me.After placing their mother in a looney bin, Christina, her brother and father move into a new house. Everyone seems comfortable in their new setting except for Christina. She can't take a bath in peace, finds cookie crumbs all over her room and is pressured by her father to be a pseudo mother figure to her little brother. All of this piles up on her, and she finds herself following in her crazy mother's footsteps.The cast isn't very likable. Lange does an adequate job but John Savage as her father is better, as well as Jerry Wasserman portraying a tough guy cop. Christina's brother and best friend were not appealing actors at all, and Brendan Fehr has come a long way since this.Only redeemable quality is Allison Lange taking a bath. That's it.