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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.
The House of the Devil
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Josh Braun Larry Fessenden Roger Kass Brent Kunkle Badie Ali Hamza Ali Greg Newman Peter Phok Malik B. Ali
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La casa del Demonio
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Horror, the undead and monster classics Intense violence and sexual transgression horror, gory, scary, killing or slasher horror, creepy, eerie, blood or gothic scary, horror, creepy, supernatural or frighten zombies, undead, horror, gory or flesh horror, creepy, frighten, eerie or chilling Show All…
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people who think this movie is scary cant watch mgm releases cuz they get too scared when the lion roars
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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…
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Ti West's direction + spooky and grainy cinematography + methodical and slowly tightening tension + fantastic performances by Jocelin Donahue and Tom Noonan + brilliant references to the 1980s and satanic chillers + one of the greatest climaxes of all time + an eventual release of primal rage and desolation + a slightly-empty house = one of the finest horror films to be released in the 21st century.
Mrs Ulman, are you okay?
:shivers:
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I'll never understand why horror movies wait until the last 20 minutes for something remotely interesting to happen
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genuinely respect how simple and unpretentious this is and the slowburn 70s aesthetic recreation/eventual gory climax do a solid enough job of distracting you from the fact that there is literally 75 minutes of a girl walking around a house in here. not bad by any means 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.
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Daily Horror 3 - September 2018
I have been having some personal problems with the challenge list for this month. I go to watch the movie I picked for that day only to find out it has nothing to do with the daily requirement and I have no idea how I managed to do that, but then I’m writing this while working on my 4th drink so maybe I do know. Who can say.
Anyway, this movie creates the perfect fall mood. A particularly dark night, a creepy house, a cold snap in the air you can almost feel, minimal dialogue. I mean, you know this movie has achieved its goal when the hubs walks into the room while you’re…
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Steeped in artifice and flimsy storytelling, Ti West's "The House of the Devil" seems to have caught the eye of horror fans hungry for a throwback to the heady and feather-haired days of 1980s thrillers. To be sure, the film is such a throwback as its design, pace, and sets all revel in the sensibilities of that past decade. Strip those touches away, however, and the film rates only as a run-of-the-mill horror film, relying too much on generating atmosphere and too little on building a satisfying narrative.
Taking place in an era wear the Fixx could be listened to on foam-padded Walkman headphones, the film revolves around Jocelin Donahue's Samantha, a college co-ed in need of a job. Finding…
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Plays with one hell of a concept: the idea of knowing you're alone in an old dark house with a stranger and being instructed to take care of them. And it isn't even a question of *who* they are. The answers are inevitable and obvious. The context just gets a little freaky.
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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.
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