Reviews of The House of the Devil 2009
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(Streaming) I was thinking that I had missed out on something because I hadn't seen this. Not so sure now. What do you have beyond feathered hair, walkmans and kitchen phones with really long chords? Low budget ingenuity? Yes. New and surprising? Not really.
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My first Ti West film, but definitely not my last. Incredible.
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See this if you-
- want to watch a college girl stroll while the awesome opening credits play for 5 minutes
- want to watch a college girl walk around campus for 20 minutes
- want to watch a college girl get introduced to a creepy house for 10 minutes
- want to watch a college girl walk slowly around a creepy house for 45 minutes getting harassed by pizza men and old ladies
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very good. nice and slow just how i like them
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A low-budget independent film, it’s about a college girl in the 1980’s who needs money to move out of her dorm room and rent a house. So she accepts a babysitting job from a creepy couple who are really fascinated by a lunar eclipse happening that night. Her babysitting job turns out to be very different from what she planned.
Technically, the movie is well done. It has a great early ‘80’s vibe, the acting is good, and the camera…
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I tip my hat to anyone who can shoot a face off using practical FX.
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I actually really enjoyed this movie. The one major downside was pacing. The first 2 acts were very slow, so it was hard to stay with it. The ending was quite thrilling, though, so I recommend it.
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Slow burner of a horror that builds suspense fantastically through great sound design and a genuine sense of dread. I even appreciated the 70/80s feel though, and all of that can be a bit hokey and forced sometimes. Probably because Ti West fully went with it, no irony, no post-meta-nonsense, no throwaway references.
Ending was a little anti-climatic and modern feeling, and out of sync compared to the rest of the film, but still one of the greatest recent Horror films I’ve seen.
Top, top genre filmmaking. Scared the shit out of me at points.
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I like Ti West and I do enjoy this movie. I really loved it the first time I watched it but then I noticed something on the second go through. It's actually quite boring. The greatest accomplishment in this film is West's incredible attention to detail in capturing the early eighties look and feel. But I must be honest, strip this one of that and it really isn't very special. Without giving too much away, I found the ending to…
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The House of the Devil is pure art house horror, heavily influenced by the scary movies made before Halloween changed the genre. The body count is low, there are no homicidal clowns, none of the main characters get naked and no one has to choose whether to hack his own arm off in order to avoid being drawn and quartered. Director (and, in my opinion, one of few people keeping the genre alive) Ti West was clearly working with a…
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A modern horror film shot like an 80's horror film. YES! That's what originally drew me to the movie. I love it stylistically, but overall the movie was pretty boring and all she did was eat pizza and watch tv.