This was quite an interesting movie. It was a bit slow, hard to follow, and full of "Que?" moments. Even with those elements, it truly was suspenseful. You knew things were going to happen, but they didn't happen right away.

The idea was that these three stoned kids robbed this grandma/grandpa and killed them in their house. Of course grandma and grandpa weren't ordinary grandparents. Their kids were a house full of clocks, hour glasses and pocket watches. After they die, the clocks spin backwards turning back time... well kind of. They come back to life and go about their normal day, while the kids stay in the house in fear. Sounds simple, right? Well, you'll have to watch it to find out, because I'm still not sure exactly how the time line worked.

Overall it wasn't that bad of a movie. The suspense made it move along a bit faster, and the horrible rotting flesh effects made it laughable.

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Fulci got - and still gets - a lot of shit for seemingly being a simple-minded gorehound who just threw a bunch of crap on the screen and hoped something stuck, someone who took everything George Romero did and got lucky making a half sequel to "Dawn of the Dead."

Yeah, Zombie wasn't exactly a masterpiece of story-telling and artistic beauty, but Fulci isn't without his merits. House of Clocks is a great example of what he was capable of, and if not for the goofy, unnecessary ending, would equal up to his famous "Nightmare Trilogy" for its surrealism.

With the two stories of the old couple and the young thugs taking place side by side, we eventually get to a point where they collide and all hell breaks loose, and that's almost literally. Time is pretty subject to opinion after a while once the clocks' owner is taken out, and not only do we get to see what happened in the house but what gorily happens to people who fuck with crazy old people.

Being Fulci, there is definitely good gore; shotgun blasts, moldy corpses (with skin that seems to peel off like an orange rind?), spiked torsos, the blood definitely flies, so it still feels like a Fulci movie, just with four times the existentialism.

But, then the ending comes, and kind of ruined it for me. For some reason Fulci decided to trump everything that came before it and make the experience some sort of dream.

The movie is definitely worth at least a once through, though you'll probably have to check it out at least twice to understand what in the holy hell is going on, and maybe not even then.

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