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  Review by Bleeding Skull 14

  Just sharing this to commemorate the day that we released BOARDINGHOUSE on Blu-ray with AGFA! We still can’t believe it’s a real thing that happened.

  One of the movies that inspired the launch of Bleeding Skull, BOARDINGHOUSE is a hallucinogenic maelstrom of madness from director-producer-actor John Wintergate and writer-producer-leading-lady Kalassu. It’s also the first shot-on-video horror film to be blown up to 35mm and released theatrically. We’re ecstatic to bring the 35mm theatrical cut to home video for the first time in this massive 2-disc set, which also includes PSYCHO KILLER (a previously unreleased alternate home video cut), SALLY & JESS (the previously unreleased “family film” from the makers of BOARDINGHOUSE), and a partial commentary track from Bleeding Skull’s Joseph A. Ziemba and friends.

  Get the Blu-ray here:
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  Review by c h r i s 🎃 ★★★★½ 1

  screaming: the movie 
  
  🤯 You made it move...with your brain?! 🤯

  Yes, the day has finally come, I have succumb to the Boardinghouse hype over the years, the first ever shot-on-video horror film shown in theaters, which indeed is a full-force hallucinogenic gloriously wild ride in its own right, the kind that you have to witness and experience to believe.
  Described as The Amityville Horror meets old school playboy playmates videos with babes and boobies—the sleaze factor is off the charts—there’s also voodoo magic happenings, screaming, a black-gloved killer, screaming, and pig head nightmares; that graveyard sequence was outrageously fun. I don’t care what anyone says this is a supernatural SOV giallo, it has all the elements on full display. also,…

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  Review by ELECTRICWIZARDx ★★★★ 4

  Imagine pouring your entire soul into a somehow-realised coked-out fantasy vanity piece where you're treated like the hottest shit in the universe in a house haunted by a supernatural in-camera effect (the line between genius and insanity), full of barely-ever dressed nubile young women and various sources of water, that's just short of the runtime of Heat, only to spell your own name wrong in the credits. It wouldn't surprise me if old Johnnnnnnnn Wintergate never made another film because he'd deepthroated the barrel of a gun.

  What Johnn did do, though, is inadvertently begin what would weirdly become its own little sub-genre ulcer on the blemish of cinema's side-belly in the form of SOV horror bollocks. Godd bless the…

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  Review by Tony the Terror 666 ★★★★½ 3

  This review is for the 2.5 hour “director’s cut” and I’m tossing out an extra half star because I actually loved every second of this delightful mess. Seriously, I could have watched another hour of this SOV treasure and it’s definitely something I intend to have playing in the background while I do stuff around the house!

  I love how much Johnn “2 n’s” Wintergate loves himself. Like half of the movie he’s in a bikini brief and I’m honestly surprised this version didn’t have a scene of him just swinging his dick in front of the camera. I can’t really remember what was in this version vs. the regular cut but it’s nothing that really makes the shorter version…

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  Review by Scumbalina ★★★½ 1

  Sexy tales of a Video Toastergeist. Party time, excellent. Telekinetic landlord looks like Kim Fowley and David Lee Roth. Pool babes doing not much of anything other than getting possessed/being cute. Witchy days and Warlock nights. Psychic haunted stabby hands, Fringe Bangs and no bra. Takes the scenic route to tell a story that maybe no one wants to know, but what's good is really good. I love Boardinghouse for who she is on the inside.

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  Review by laird ★★★★ 5

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  October 2005
  My friends chose to watch a movie called HOUSEGEIST for movie night because of the appealing VHS big box art, and well, because it's called HOUSEGEIST. "Oh no, this is shot on VHS!" I thought it was weird, but mostly boring. [Fade Out] I had no desire to rewatch it ever again in my life. [Cut to Exterior]
  Case Closed.

  
  
  
  
  

  Case Reopened.
  November 2006
  I decided to attend an all night film festival and stay for all five movies. Though I did not like HOUSEGEIST, I was determined to stay awake for the 35mm blow up (under the original title BOARDINGHOUSE). It was the last movie of the "night" so it began at…

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  Review by belial_carboni ★★★★ 6

  After Video Violence I needed more mind melting SOV insanity and damned if Boardinghouse isn't the perfect companion piece. I feel sorry for my poor brain because this thangs losing mad brain cells tonight! And I don't even care! Put on your seatbelt. Fasten your helmet, say goodbye to your loved ones because you are about to enter BOARDINGHOUSE!!

  Directed by little weasel Johnn Wintergate (yes he has two Ns in his name in the credits. Probably a typo but I'm gonna pretend he spells his name that way) Boardinghouse is one of the most bizarre SOV horror films out there. You gotta see it to believe it and there's no words to properly describe it. Well here's a few…

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  Review by Marna Larsen ★★★★★ 7

  You may think you know what you are getting into, you may have read reviews, seen SOV garbage no budget abominations before, well I'm here to tell you: no. There's no way to prepare for the glowing orange spray tan-ingness, psycic mayhem pig faced blood spurting gorgeous monstrosity that is Boardinghouse.

  Singing and dancing in lavander spandex and a matching shredded top in a neon red fog at a haunted poolside demon dimension L.A. party had better be at least 5 or 6 billion of the infinite ghost dimensions after I die or I am demanding a refund. What have I sat thru all this bullshit life (minutes at a time, in between SOV hell dimension garbage, sleeping and eating) for, then? No. Or at least spandex and shredded top mall store credit. I've earned it!

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  Review by bummer_buddy ★★★½

  I haven’t seen this since college but it’s as pervy and bizarre as I remember! One of my favorite parts of this movie is that there are so many conversations that are cut off mid-sentence, I had no idea it was because the producers demanded they go back and re-edit what was initially a campy titty horror comedy…into a more serious, “marketable” film. I think we all know how that worked out for them. I submit that in the spirit of “The Streisand effect” (when an attempt to suppress information brings national attention to it) we add “The Boardinghouse effect”—when an attempt to tone down material results in something far sillier and less marketable. Someone should make a letterboxd list…

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  Review by Elric Kane ★★★ 3

  Like attending a Vegas Magic show in a crack house.

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  Review by Ben ★★½

  🎃Day 31🎃
  31 Days of Halloween Marathon

  Happy Halloween!

  Boardinghouse was the first film in the double feature Dismember the Alamo event at my local Alamo Drafthouse. Despite being one of the worst movies ever made, it was the perfect way to kick things off. An absolute SOV brain melter. Everything is shrouded in this haze that feels like you’re in a movie nightmare. I can’t even explain the story because I didn’t understand it at all. Complete unintentional comedy in every single minute. There’s telekinesis, a creepy gardener, an abundance of screams and lots of sex. It came as no surprise that John Wintergate, the star, made this movie. I can only assume he wanted to be surrounded by scantily clad women so he wrote a movie around that central idea. The dialog is amazingly shit. Sooo many quotable lines. My brain never fully recovered and I’m totally okay with that. Brains are overrated. Boardinghouse rules.

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  Review by Matt Winfield ★★★

  BOARDINGHOUSE! The very first shot-on-video horror film, described as a mix between Amityville Horror and a Playboy Playmates vid, and honestly, that's not too far off the mark... Malevolent spirits of the ye olde Hoffman House are causing half naked ladies to off themselves in gruesome bloody fashion, in between plenty of pool parties, pie fights, and lingerie makeout sessions. Did 12-year old me write this? Geez...

  Honestly, the whole thing is just an excuse for "director/actor" John(n) Wintergate to have a dozen babes in bikinis fawning over him while making sure his bulging package is featured as prominently as possible in every scene. So in that sense, this is a major success? The vibe is sleazy AF, the story…