House is a 1985 American comedy horror film directed by Steve Miner, with a screenplay by Ethan Wiley, from an original story written by Fred Dekker.

The film centers on a troubled author who moves into his late aunt's seemingly haunted house, and is forced to deal with supernatural phenomenon.

Famed author Roger Cobb's son Jimmy vanishes while they visit his aunt Elizabeth's home, leading to the collapse of his marriage to movie star Sandy Sinclair.

He sees a monstrous creature inside of aunt's bedroom, a mounted swordfish seemingly comes back to life, and garden tools begin to levitate on their own.

Roger manages to find Jimmy and escape back to the human world, but is confronted by Big Ben, now a hideous zombie-like creature.

The first two weeks of production comprised shooting exteriors at the estate known today as Mills View, a Victorian style home first built in 1887 and located on Melrose Avenue in Monrovia, California.

[3] Production designer Gregg Fonseca[4] and a crew of five spent about four weeks modifying the existing Victorian manor that included repainting the whole of the exterior, bordering the front yard with a wrought iron fence supported by stone pillars, and attaching foam spires to the roof.

The back of the house had its clapboard façade covered with brick, and landscapers were brought in to plant flowers and reseed the dying lawn.

The yard had no sidewalk at the time, so a faux walkway – made from plywood painted gray to look like concrete, and positioned to lead straight to the front porch – was added as a finishing touch.

[3] The final six weeks of production moved operations to Ren-Mar Studios in Hollywood, where two floors of the interior of the Monrovia house were recreated on sound stages.

On a separate adjacent set, the jungle exteriors for the Vietnam flash-back scenes were also built on sound stages, taking three days to put together.

"[14] Alex Stewart of White Dwarf wrote that although the film has a good premise, it is "squandered on yet another tired old haunted house story" whose supernatural horrors can not compare to the real life trauma of war.