My review was written in January 1991 after watching the movie on Cinema Images video cassette.
Lack of talent is the key strike against "It's Only a Movie!", a well-meaning amateur video. Would-be spoof musical in the "Rocky Horror" vein is strictly for consumers of low camp.
Crude black & white lensing on video makes pic a tough slog. Premise of a movie crew going to a haunted house to shoot a picture is as old as Howard Koch's campy "Frankenstein - 1970" (released in 1958), but neither a crew nor a camera is ever shown.
Coup de grace is he cast belting post-synced songs by Tim Frey in off-key fashion. Bad lighting and numerous shadows in the frame (courtesy of cameraman V. C. Siegfried) are another detriment. Director Joseph Zaso casts himself as the novelist heroine's son and displays the worst singing voice.
Instead of the genre's usual quotient of gore, the cast spits up various liquids.