There's sort of an interesting movie in here, but I'm not entirely sure what they were thinking. The basic "Let's use the haunted house as a metaphor for personal trauma, specifically death of child and Vietnam experiences" concept makes sense (though I'd say that combining the two is, perhaps, overkill), but the overall semi-comic tone of the film seems to undercut the intention, as does, arguably, the decision to make the house actually haunted (instead of being solely a product of mind). Still, I sort of get what they were going for until the end. The whole introduction of the dead kid felt a little odd (in that it was never exactly clear what people, other than the protagonist, thought happened to the kid - did he just go missing?), and then allowing him to be physically rescued seemed like a pretty direct refutation of the "house as metaphor for internal conflict." Maybe I just wanted this to be a different film than it was.