Directed By- Ti West
Written By- Ti West
Starring- Jocelin Donahue, Greta Grewig, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, A.J. Bowen, Dee Wallace
Critics Review- "Now this is how you make a scary movie. The House of the Devil is a delicious throwback to the golden era of Hollywood horror-- one that is unapologetically earnest and overwhelmingly committed to the task at hand."- Simon Miraudo "Quickflix"
Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 86% Audience- 56%
Out of a possible 5 stars- 5 stars
My Review-
It is rare that I give a horror movie 5 stars or love a horror movie as much as I did this one. I like horror movies, mostly the ones from the 70s and 80s some from the 90s and very few from the 00s, but this one which is seemingly set in the 1970s or 80s it is not really mentioned was possibly the best one I have seen in a long time next to Cabin in the Woods and Drag Me to Hell. Yes it was a slow but it was the time of horror film that built up until the final minutes of the film, kept you wondering what was going to happen next to the main character and the strange house she was in. I had never heard of Ti West or this film until a friend of mine told me about this movie and his other one that recently came out a while ago, which I will watch and review for this blog later. The feeling of this movie seemed like a homage to the horror movies from back in the day, where some of the best horror movies came out before all of the remakes, which I loved since one of my favorite horror movies of all time is John Carpenter's Halloween, which I loved about this movie because at the same time it had that scenario of the babysitter in the empty house and then changed the whole thing entirely. I think its the pace of the pace of the movie that sets most of it a part from the horror movies now a days since it slowly built up to the third act and then did not stop. Another thing that worked for this movie was the acting from the actors, Tom Noonan usually plays the creepy role and he does it well in this film as the creepy home owner, now with the main actor Jocelin Donahue I have never really seen her act until I watched this movie, and she did well in this movie for me she should stick to horror movies it seems like this is a genre that she could own if she keeps doing these types of films. If you like horror movies from the 70s and 80s or that start slowly and build up watch this movie it is so worth it. These are the times of horror movies that should be made, not remakes or reboots, movies that build the suspense and keeps us wonder whats gonna happen next.
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