If you let it, this film will take you away, to a place that will remain in the near shadows for decades. Bob Berry, the one-man-band, produced HOUSE OF DREAMS for about a dollar eighty. If you make the mistake of watching the cheap, you will miss the inspired. Sixteen millimeter, black and white, minimal sets and muddled sound work with the simple blocking to create and involve the viewer in the tense visual fabric. Aesthetic distance evaporates and the scary parts actually scare. HOUSE OF DREAMS and Penzener's I WAS A ZOMBIE FOR THE FBI, remain two excellent examples of true Auteur, no-budget film-making. HOUSE OF DREAMS was shot and posted on film, as opposed to ZOMBIE, which was produced on tape. The presence of actual sprocket holes makes Berry's production the most hard won and authentic period classic.