Now this is why I went into the bad horror movie review business! I am smiling ear-to-ear right now, just thinking about HOUSE OF THE DAMNED. It is such an incredibly awful and utterly hilarious exercise in haunted house horror that you have to think that maybe the writer or director was playing a practical joke on us. But no, this one was clearly intended to be a serious and frightening horror movie. Now here is where the magic happens…HOUSE OF THE DAMNED fails so miserably and so spectacularly that you find yourself laughing out loud at its failure.