Excellent film with a gripping story!

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

THE CARPENTER is an oddball little horror film of the 1980s given a new lease of life on DVD by Code Red. It's a cheap Canadian effort that nonetheless has a unique and odd little feel to it, a dream-like atmosphere you don't often see at this budget in this genre. The plot is reminscient of TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY, albeit with a murderous slant. A crazy young woman moves into a house which is being renovated and soon encounters Wings Hauser, the titular character, who is doing up her basement. The only problem is that a) he's a ghost, and b) he's a murderer. A string of cheesy power tool-assisted death scenes follows, hardly convincing, but mildly amusing for the horror lover. The acting is of a variably standard but Hauser is fun in a kooky way and the running time is too brief for this to outstay its welcome.

This is a horror film that portrays some chilling ways in which a person can be killed using ordinary carpenter's tools. Those of you who expect gore, will be more than satisfied, as this film highlights some disturbing killings perpetrated by The Carpenter (Wings Hauser). Plot: Martin (Pierre Lenoir) and Alice Jarett (Lynne Adams) move into a new house that has some unfinished construction and repair-work to be done. Martin bought this property and is very happy with it. Alice who is still recovering from a nervous breakdown also takes to the house. She keeps busy doing menial chores while Martin, who is a lecturer is away at work.Unknown to Alice is that the house has a sinister history attached to it. Meanwhile Martin is having an affair with a student of his for sometime. By mistake the student gets pregnant and she tells Martin about it. Martin tells her that the relationship is off and she should get an abortion.In the middle of the night Alice hears some hammering and sawing sounds like someone at work. She goes to investigate and meets The Carpenter (Wings Hauser) for the very first time. They start talking. And both start show an interest in one another. Alice leaves The Carpenter to his work. When morning comes, Alice finds no trace of The Carpenter who has mysteriously vanished. Sheriff J.J. Johnston makes a visit to Alice to welcome her into the community. And it is here that we learn the tale of the former owner of the house....The house belonged to a married man, who wanted to build a house all by himself for his wife. He became obsessed with the house. Meanwhile his wife leaves him and he is devastated. He goes into debt but still wants to finish the house at all cost. Some men are sent to repossess the house but are all killed in gruesome ways. The man is caught and sentenced to death by electrocution. It is the ghost of this man that wonders in the house during the house trying to finish it.See the film to find out what happens next...Excellent acting by all actors in the film. The special effects are good. Background music score is excellent. And overall a rare film to get hold off. I suggest if you see it to buy it for your horror movies collection.

Yeah, yeah, I know. Buying "The Carpenter" was all my fault, and I shouldn't have harbored the expectations that I did. I accept that. I'm not trying to blame anyone else for my misguided foul-ups. I do reserve the right, however, to curse the studio and all it represents for the various cinematic disappointments that are simply inexcusable.The movie seemed interesting enough to me. A mysterious carpenter continues to appear in the, quote, "delirious dead of night," gruesomely eliminating any man or woman that causes the house owner grief. Yeah, yeah, great stuff.The movie delivered, but only on certain levels. Yes, the carpenter showed up. And yes, the night always seemed slightly delirious. And you know what? There were even a number of original, if uninspired, death scenes. Great, great stuff.Upon closer inspection, however, several glaring mistakes made themselves all too real.Firstly, what's the deal with Wings Hauser? You've got one of the greatest character actors ever to grace the screen, and you waste his talent in such a visually lusterless role? Yeah yeah, I know. Wings Hauser sucks. Character actor? He's hardly an actor. The point I'm trying to make is that he needed to be dressed like a ghoul to make this flick a little more aesthetically appealing.Secondly, and perhaps decisively, there's no nudity. I'm sorry, what? That's right, no nudity. There are two or three women in the film, but none strip down like they're supposed to. Several times we're offered some sort of teaser, but they never amount to anything. The very element that could have made this film is completely ignored, and "Carpenter" suffers for it.Because of these simple mistakes, "The Carpenter" dawdles more in the twisted-romantic-drama genre and less in ceaseless, mind-numbing, bad horror like it was meant to. Sad. Very sad.Ah well. Rent it anyway. It seems that if I can get other people to watch this crap, my life seems less desperate and lonely.

This movie is a classic horror movie in Norway. It's intensely scary yet sensitive. With the ever so talented Wing Hauser as the crazed carpenter, though it's special effects are rather outdated. But it's complex plot and intensely scary music more than makes up for it.They just don't make them like this anymore. An instant classic.10 out of 10. BRAVO