"Think of Don't Go In The House as a modern-day take on Psycho, and replace knives with flamethrowers and you've got the idea. In fact, it shares more with Psycho than a lot of the gorier slasher films from the era like The Prowler and My Bloody Valentine in that much of the film is more a psychological study of a severely disturbed individual irredeemably harmed by his mother, and that the film doesn't really wallow in the explicit gore that other slasher films like Maniac did at the time. That's not to say Don't Go In The House isn't unsettling or disturbing - it most certainly is, most notably in the film's most infamous scene where Donny roasts his first victim in his self-made crematorium. The scene is chillingly clinical in its coldness, and the effects are surprisingly - and nauseously - well executed." - Stuart Giesel, Digital Retribution