Synopsis
Talk on the phone. Finish your homework. Watch TV. Die.
In the 1980s, college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret.
In the 1980s, college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret.
La casa del Demonio, Dům ďábla, La casa del diablo, La Casa del Demonio, La maison du diable, בית השטן, 하우스 오브 더 데블, Dom diabła, A Casa do Demônio, Дом дьявола, Şeytan Evi, Будинок диявола, 邪恶之屋
people who think this is scary cant watch mgm releases cuz they get too scared when the lion roars
watching this movie and shaking my head the whole time so that people know I don’t condone tricking babysitters into partaking in a satanic ritual 🤦♂️🙅♂️
I'll never understand why horror movies wait until the last 20 minutes for something remotely interesting to happen
Genuinely respect how simple and unpretentious this is and the slow burn 70s aesthetic recreation/eventual gory climax does a solid enough job of distracting you from the fact that there are literally 75 minutes of a girl walking around a house in here. Not bad by any means and has decent performances but feel pretty safe in filing the love for this one I see from friends under “you had to be there.” I’ll stick with Rob Zombie’s Lords of Salem.
It’s actually insane how much this feels like an 80s movie.
The plot, setting, costumes, cinematography, music, felt so authentically 1980s, I easily could’ve been convinced it was from that era had I known less about the film.
Part of Hoop-Tober
“This one night changes everything for me.”
In the foyer, near the base of the grand staircase, sits a harpsichord.
Not a piano. Not even an organ. A harpsichord.
The house is already impressively creepy. So expansive yet so enclosed, so dark. Stairwells and passageways and so many rooms, all suitable for sneaking and hiding and misdirection. Everything about it is subtly unnerving—a grandparents’ home full of ugly wallpaper and linoleum and bric-a-brac, but with a sense that the grandson might be Damien. It’s reminiscent of the Victorian Bates manse in Psycho, itself inspired Edward Hopper’s The House by the Railroad. It is less a house than an imposition on good mental health. But it’s just a…