House of Horror story
Arling, Henderson, and Waters are three pledges of a fraternity on probation who are bullied into submission by sadistic pledge master Les Wilton. As the final part of their initiation, the trio are challenged to get to the top floor of the Cougher House, an abandoned house rumored to be haunted by the ghost of a murderer with a hacking cough. However, when two of the pledges fail to return, Les decides to head up to the top floor of the house in order to look for them himself, only to learn that a local sorority harbors a sinister secret involving the house. Directed by: Bob Gale. Story by: Bob Gale.
11 total · 2 choice · 5 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| initiation rite | choice | The story concerned the stereotypical hazing rituals of some stereotypical American college frat houses. In a surprise twist it turned out that the sorority's final initiation rite involved the killing and devouring of human flesh, for they were all ghouls. |
| what it is like in university | choice | The story concerns the stereotypical American frat antics of some stereotypical American college frat students. |
| childish bullying | major | The humiliating initiation rites that the frat pledges were subjected to was tantamount to bullying. For example, Les compelled Arling to lick doggy doo from the sole of Les' sneaker. |
| embarrassment | major | The story concerns the degradation some younger students were subjected to by their peers in a stereotypical American frat house. |
| fear | major | The fraternity boys experienced fear to varying degrees inside the supposedly haunted house. |
| haunted house | major | Most of the story took place in a supposedly haunted house. |
| monster | major | The cannibalistic female frat students revealed that they had ghastly visages and were, in fact, "ghouls". |
| cannibalism | minor | In a surprise twist it was revealed that the haunting and serial murder was all stage acted by a sorority whose members were secretly flesh eating cannibalistic ghouls. |
| greed for riches | minor | A $100 incentive was enough to get some people to investigate the haunted house against their better judgement after events such as the defenestration of a mysteriously severed arm. |
| living corpse | minor | The story is presented by the Crypt Keeper, a cackling, wisecracking cadaver. |