House (2008)

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Such a frustrating disappointment

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

OK besides two little things, the fact that I had guessed what was going on bc I had seen a similar movie with the exact same idea down to the execution of it, and the finger touching ridiculous part at about 20 minutes before it ends, but besides those two things I thought this movie was really done quite well actually. I am so surprised it has such low ratings!?! Even tho it does have the same plot as that other movie it was still done in a different setting somewhat with different background and keeps you entertained the whole time, I was really intrigued by this film. Like a book you can't put down I was carrying my iPad all over my house til the movie ended.This is very very underrated film, I'm not sure why it doesn't have better ratings but I really liked it and think it deserves at least 7-8 stars. I gave it 9 to bump up score & not 10 bc of the weird finger touch scene that was super cheesy!

In the intro a husband kills his wife in a house. Later a couple are driving in the mountains. His driving is suicidal and his behavior irrational. They are driving to couple's therapy somewhere far away. They run into a strange cop and an accident scene. Then they get two flat tires when he drives over some junk. Another disabled car is nearby. It starts pouring and they find shelter in an inn. No one from the staff shows up but they meet another couple who owns the other disabled car. Finally a strange lady shows up who convinces them to stay. She invites them to dinner with the rest of her weird family- a guy who keeps telling the other girl that she's pretty and some violent guy who abuses the rest of the family. Suddenly some crazy guy tries to break into the house. It's tin man. He's got a thing for tins and warns everyone inside that they've got to kill someone or all will die.The family unmasks itself as being completely nuts now, and the couples run away and hide throughout the house. They discover walls with pentagrams. The family turns out are a bunch of satanists. And now suddenly supernatural things start happening. All four will have to face their fears. The first couple ignored their daughter while she went skating on a lake and died. The other guy killed his abusive dad, and the girl was molested as a child by her uncle. One of the guys finds a girl locked up and this girl will guide them, of sorts. The identity of tin man is revealed as well as all the elements shown in the intros are explained. The resolution also involves the supernatural. There is somewhat of a twist. And when you think it's all worked out there is another twist that makes everything pretty pointless.House unfortunately has nothing to do with the 80s hit movie. This one is pretty lame and uninteresting. Supernatural elements rarely work in movies and it doesn't in this one. The whole face-your-fears thing is getting boring in horror movies, especially when nothing comes out of it, as with this movie. Crazy southern families we have seen a couple times too many in movies. Tin man is supposed to be some scary threatening guy, but he doesn't do anything. When you mix all that together you don't have a whole lot really. House has decent acting and direction, the girls are attractive, but the story is unsatisfying and there is no character to care for.

I actually viewed this movie on a day when I had nothing better to do because of flooding storms outside, however, I think even if it had been a sunny day and I was stressed for time, I still would have enjoyed it. The movie followed a pretty realistic plot line, but saying that, it wasn't in any way 100% original; there are plenty of other movies in this same genre which share a segment of the plot line of this movie. The ending, in my opinion, was slightly rushed and completely predictable, and I think that that could leave some a little dissatisfied if they are sticklers for an original, or "perfect", ending.All in all, if you are a fan of plots occurring in large houses, cat and mouse games, crazy religious fanatics, and a little bit of psychological twists, then this is a perfect movie for you. If you are looking for something which is like nothing else you have ever seen before . . . then you'll likely want to pass this one up.

I have always said that there is never a bad movie, each movie at least has a good part in it. I never imagined that I'd ever rate a movie 1/10. I actually think it deserves a ZERO but that's not possible here.The movie is simply TERRIBLE, terrible can't even do the movie justice. IT IS HORRIBLE! I can't believe it! I watched the trailer and looked forward to it I thought it would be exciting and scary. It wasn't! First of all this movie is COMEDY, wait I think it's actually "SCARY MOVIE" in disguise. The acting was TERRIBLE! The music was TYPICAL and VERY BAD. There was no storyline, I mean seriously! I still have no clue what HAPPENED, or what the story was! It was freaking, not confusing, but weird in a bad BAD way! Oh and don't let me start talking about the make up HORRIBLE, some characters looked like CLOWNS. What the HELL. I can NOT believe this movie was released! It should be banned, it's SO bad that it makes you laugh! I laughed so hard on how bad this was! When I entered the theater about 20 people were there, when the movie finished only 3 were left (me and my friends) everyone LEFT. I had hope that it would suddenly, suddenly BE GOOD, but NO NO NOOOOO!!! -SPOILER- THE ENDING? WHAT THE HELL. They were dead ALL along, do they think that would spice things up? It made me laugh, it made it WORST.Waste of time AND MONEY! The only good thing that came out of this is that now I know what is the WORST movie EVER and I can warn people not to watch it! 0.5/10 DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE. I read the reviews and I didn't believe them, and watched this movie, oh I wish I believed them.DON'T WATCH IT!!!!!