Babysitters are great! Their cries fill quiet neighborhoods with joy and the altars of hell with fuel. But! It so happened that the life of any nurse has a short-term rapid flow, sometimes they are cut, sometimes kidnapped, and sometimes exotic methods are used, such as ritual sacrifices. John Carpenter discovered the concept of a caregiver in danger, which was picked up by various dealers in the genre. One of them is indie director Ty West. Like all of us, at least I'm obsessed with horror. And unlike geeks, he does not sit at home, in a littered room and does not moan on vintage, but makes films. Different degrees of shelf life, despite the fact that his films are not always good, but let’s face it, often they are stingy on scenes of violence and very boring, but on big holidays Mr. West action shoots interesting things.
Nanny, on a cold morning, she is hired to look after a large and cozy house, where a representative Tom Noonen explains the nature of the work, and that's all. This is a very interesting directorial move. It’s not even about the effects but the painstakingly built atmosphere of the horror of the last century. Meticulously stylizations, frame by frame West has achieved the desired, namely the feeling that the film was shot many years ago and its plot is strictly according to the canons familiar to every lover of the vhs era.
An old house, benevolent employers, an element of mystery, growing panic, and as a result, its unspeakable horror. For horror, too, everything is extremely within the genre, Satanists from the seventies with their black rituals. It's expensive to look at, Nunnen is a similar icon of the genre, even if not so much bloated as Bill Moseley. But the beauty is that because of this, Noonen doesn't have the same star in the genre, so he's trying. The atmospheric phenomenon in the genre raised West as a director in my eyes, for it is steadfast and adult.
In 2008, being demanding of the genre that Ty West chose for himself is completely unforgivable. And to take seriously the thundering headlines “based on real events” (and even more so the budget picture with a slant under the 80s), she laughs to God. It is also funny that critics, who ate what is said to be a shark in this cinematic niche, dubbed West’s creation as “a truly atmospheric and tense movie.”
The tension itself, in this tape, lasts the entire timekeeping, leaving no hope for any development, dynamics and even a little integral details of suspense. The director has none of this (1-2 moments of power) and has nothing to offer him. This applies to the plot and the cast. In general, knowing that the director occupied not only his chair but also the chair of the screenwriter, editor and shared the set with his colleague Jocelyn Donahue, we can assume that Ty simply chased all the hares ' immediately. Initially, it looked somewhat promising, but after the expiration of the term it turned into a mush-chapito, where the overexposed scenes of those very same "Horrors" & #39; were completely strange, the behavior of the characters is stupid, and the meaning of the canvas descended to the level of grandmother's fairy tales.
In comparison comes to mind "Book of Shadows" Erica Valet. The latter is not much different from this material, but wins in the sense that it initially “sprays” its thrash content. In “Devil’s House” everything is completely wrong – West makes the viewer wait, wait and wait again, in the end just to throw in the face of the old satanic burrow. And a normal person wouldn't like it.
God, this is the worst movie of my life. And it is not for nothing that I proclaim such categorical and formidable postulates in my stupid and useless essay, within the limits of which I reign undivided - I am unambiguous and unwavering in this inevitably subjective evaluative category. My film library may be sparse, and I haven’t touched much of the really bad stuff, but I’ve seen such relics of inefficiency as both The Dunwich Horror, The Valdemar Legacy, The Widge Experiment, which I couldn’t watch, so unsuitable, and some other amazing things, but even so Devil’s House is something fundamentally different. This is truly a vain and destructive work for the aesthetic sense, and the more I am stunned not only by the abundance of positive reactions to the object of my today’s hatred, but also by the merits attributed to the film – “Intrigues and fascinates”," experimental cinema of the XXI century, of course, belonging to the group “not for everyone”" “Top 10 Horror Films”. Hell and destruction.
Now let's get this straight. What is a movie? This is a cheap in the artistic sense and inexpensive in the budget horror about a student who decided to be a nurse for a fee in a vintage mansion, and got into the worst film in the life of some gloomy genius. The film begins very spectacularly, with a degenerative annotation about 70% of Americans who believe in sects and another 30% who also believe, but the government covers everything. It would be a non-binding stupidity in some other horror movie, but hey, the worst movie in the world, and that’s its meaningful starting point. Then the plot starts and we meet a student, Samara, and she wants to buy no more, no less, a whole house, because she can't get into the dorm room where she's settled because of a friend who's fucking there or something, and she needs money, so she's looking for a job as a nurse. And this is even a good canvas for the average level of horror, only the above is learned in 15 minutes, and collectively for 6. Then what happens in the remaining timekeeping? Nothing's going on, okay? But this is more of an emotional assessment, of course, it is true, but it does not reveal all the author’s talent. The truth is that this whole damn movie is a triumph of talentless directing - it's a string of completely empty and drawn-out scenes, unnecessary for anything and no one, monotonously, blandly and depressingly stretching throughout the film all the way to the end, for an hour and a half, just think, telling two lines of the script that the student went to the house of Satanists. Oh, my God, this is so bad. Through the long, static, but still shaking, the hand of the masters, the plans, chained to the main character, we all this damn movie, for more than an hour, watching Samantha sit, walk, look, say something, dance a little, drink water while in the vastness of the plot there is no devil. There are no events, nothing at all, and the so-called script, which so carefully conveys every awkward movement of the character, can be divided into 2 stages - all this rotten and maximally empty plot and 17 minutes of the finale. That's how it works. And it would even be possible to come to terms with this, if it makes sense, if through this lousy useless timekeeping revealed the identity of the main character, if there was at least a hint of establishing a psycho-emotional connection with her at least partially, if there was at least something that would make an hour of watching the girl with the ass in denim pants at least minimally justified, but we have here not just a stupid horror, after all, we have a laureate for the most incompetent film of the era and an unconditional prize-winner in the personal system of one very anxious description of his feelings. So I’m saying with authority that if it weren’t for the more or less cute female lead, this movie would be physically impossible to watch. What an unfortunate misfortune that this lady starred in this, and I, watching this, did not interrupt in the beginning. But that kinzo isn't all said yet! Uh, not all! For this rotten scenario is not all of holes, it does contain a couple of episodes, and, God, how stupid.
In a nutshell, you find a picture of some people with exactly the same car as your employers - immediately take the knife, because this is the maximum of what the script in this film is capable of to arouse in the character a sense of anxiety! And in a minute, you can put it back because the fall has passed or I know the hell he is. But someone there is talking about suspense, about the ideal atmosphere, I quote: “makes you feel uncomfortable even with the help of silence, which seems to strike at the root of consciousness.” Well, what can I say, my consciousness is not broken, but the totality of vague feelings experiences quite a lot. And the director apparently wanted to demonstrate where he had put almost a million dollars in the budget, and he dragged a corpse with a hole in his head to the second floor of the house, although it should not be there according to all the laws of common sense, he was even killed in the wrong place. This film is perfect in its misery. This is the mental handwriting of films in which the quality goes to a negative degree - when the artistic techniques of visual disclosure of the plot and characters crumble in the hands of mediocrity, turning, it would seem, another typical film into a phenomenal theater of professional shame, artistic negligence, plot disability. I was trying to say that this film is the worst ever seen, not just because someone put shit on the glass in the place where the script should be, or because of the directorial disability, not only because of it. Devil's House is an example of how to make it so obviously bad that it doesn't even work as a movie. This is not a plot straight, whatever it may be, it is a static and silent parade of the complete impotence of the plan and its implementation; a work of art where there is not just no cause and effect, where there is not even an attempt to act, instead of which there is only a woman captured on film and the awareness of how primitive and narrow-minded can be what is called art, but in fact has no connection with it, only discredits and denigrates.
About the finale, which is a milestone of this vicious ugliness, it begins at about 1:13 and it is, of course, nonsense, but ordinary nonsense, far in its primitiveness to the structural basis of the film, hatred of which I tried to fix in the matter, not for other readers, but for myself.
An example of the successful use of clichés and the widespread addition of its note.
The Devil's House - the film of 2009, from the category horror with a frightening house, the director was then still a young and promising horror maker Ty West, then shot only Bloody Hunt and Nest, which received not the best ratings from the audience.
Abstract: College student Samantha Hughes (Jocelyn Donahue) gets a job as a nanny to very strange people. In addition, this event coincides with a total lunar eclipse - a great start for a horror movie. Soon, Samantha realizes that her employers are hiding a lot of terrible secrets in the house, and they plan to use the girl in a satanic ritual of worshiping the Devil! .
Acting play. When all the actors are selected so harmoniously that there is nothing to complain about; when Greta Gerwig eats pizza so exciting that I do not want to be distracted by anything, whether it is food, the Internet or everyday conversations; when you believe that the character of Tom Noonen has really lost all sanity due to the fact that he keeps the bar of acting throughout the film; when Jocelyn Donahue, walking around the house almost the whole film, makes the film even more exciting and intriguing, and you do not want to tear it off from the screen at all.
Scenario. Here's the interesting part. Tay West (he is a screenwriter, yes!) made it so that it becomes fascinating to look at seemingly banal things: a terrible house, gone owners, windy youth. But all this is presented to us as a well-written horror with wonderful plot twists, without a single stupid dialogue between the characters.
About the movie The Devil's House is a real diamond among all the low-grade commercial and not-so-too-dish that was made in the 21st century. It's interesting to watch. It's intriguing and fascinating. Makes you feel uncomfortable even with the help of silence, which seems to strike at the root of consciousness. The film has plot twists associated with the occult, and this is chic, because to find a truly suitable horror with at least hints of Satanism is almost impossible. The only thing I have seen in the 21st century is the Death Gifts and the Devil’s House. Maybe I was just looking bad. Of the minuses, I will note a weak ending. Indeed, it could have been more interesting.
The Devil's House is a standout horror-scam movie. It brings just a wild suspense, which can resist only the occult fanatic.
The charming sophomore Samantha Hughes really needs money and Mr. and Mrs. Ullman are happy to provide it to her: all you need to do is work as a nanny for several hours in a Victorian mansion remote from the bustle of the city, located in the woods. But this is only part of the truth, and the other part of it: on this night, Samantha has a special honor - to be the main star at the festival of life, arranged by a crazy duo of elderly spouses.
It is necessary to pay tribute to the authors of this picture - they are surprisingly frank with the viewer and from the very first seconds of the screen narrative destroy the main intrigue, revealing to us the dominant essence of the forces of evil that the central heroine will have to face. On the other hand, this is only part of the plan, since the future role of the heroine, as well as her fate, will remain unknown until the finale. And that's where the whole story will be built.
The most indisputable advantage of this film is a stunningly accurate stylization for the classic horror films of the 70s, 80s. The associations with the legendary paintings of the maestro of horror John Carpenter are more than obvious here. Very subtly and at the same time reliably conveyed the spirit, atmosphere and household paraphernalia of the time: antediluvian cars; checkered shirts and narrow jeans; cassette players and lamp TVs; gloomy entourage of old houses and asceticity of pizzerias; eternally frowning sky and a scattering of faceless campuses on whose desert streets rushed wither leaves driven by cold autumn wind. Moreover, the authors do not stop there and in addition to recreating the material and everyday world of those years, they also use technical techniques characteristic of the shooting process of the 70s and 80s: graininess of the film; long, slow plans; smooth installation; musical accompaniment with the use of a synthesizer and keyboard instruments; design of introductory titles and interesting camera solutions. In all this, one can see the sincere reverence, love and genuine interest of director T. West to the cinema of the last century and the analogies with Carpenter’s Halloween, Kristina, Fog and even Kubrick’s Shining are inevitable. The result fully justifies the effort spent: while watching it is really difficult to believe that what you saw was filmed in the 2000s, so authentic and convincingly adhered to the style of classic horror. And what is doubly commendable is that the authors did not limit themselves to recreating only the historical entourage and observance of symbolism, but also applied a shooting approach similar to the original technical embodiment, which only complicated the task, because initially there was a great temptation to concentrate only on the objects of the material world of that time, as most modern directors would do and would stop there.
The acting triumvirate is selected exceptionally as successfully, thereby confirming that casting specialists do not eat their bread in vain: despite a rather short screen time, Tom Nunnen, whose external courtesy and good manners hides a rabid villainous charisma, and Mary Voronov, literally shining with a cold look of a ferocious wolf, managed to create a bright and memorable duet, well, and pretty Jocelyn Donahue with always falling into the eyes of dark strands can not at the same time escape her female charm. The film itself is unhurried, here, first of all, everything works for the atmosphere, slowly enveloping the viewer with a thick veil of mystery and tension. Often it may seem that nothing happens on the screen at all, but the light footsteps of impending anxiety and threat, combined with mystery, save the seemingly lulling meditativeness of the plot. And against the background of all this, just the inevitable climax looks like a weak link - it is too fleeting and hectic in its visual and emotional presentation and therefore looks not like the apogee of hitherto restrained bacchanalia and madness, but rather a foreign element of an alien history. But this flaw is easily forgivable to the young director: for West, this is only the third full-length work, and the most ridiculous culmination is only crumbs from the general timekeeping. In addition, it would be wrong not to mention the enthusiasm and universal self-sufficiency of T. West as a creator: in his paintings he is a director, a screenwriter, and an editor, and, of course, this cannot but admire. Not afraid to take a banal genre stamp (another old house as a source of evil) as a starting point and, without enriching the plot with dynamics, he managed to make a fascinating film, tenaciously keeping the viewer’s attention throughout the viewing. In fact, before us one hundred percent author's film and the corresponding conclusion suggests itself: "Devil's House" is a high-quality low-budget stylish film canvas and a real tribute to horror films of the past.
Very atmospheric film. Filmed in 2008, but while watching it, you get the impression that you are watching a horror movie of the 80s. The music and the clothes correspond to that era. Nice acting, good work of the operator. In the film there are almost no screamers, which is very exciting. The plot of the film is simple and develops slowly. There is almost no action, someone may think that the film is very boring, but it is not shot for the mass audience. This is more like an art house, for true connoisseurs of the horror genre, who love this genre precisely for the atmosphere, which in this film is amazing.
With a budget of $900,000, it was a great movie. I did not regret the time spent, and moreover, I will get acquainted with other works of Ty West.
7 out of 10
Hey, '70s. I came across the movie "Devil's House" by accident. Quite by accident. Just yesterday, my friends and I staged a film screening, consisting of several films such as: "The Girl in the Pictures", "The Mystery" and "The Devil's House". The first movie didn't like everyone, and the other two liked 90% of the friends. At first, friends thought that "Devil's House" was released in the 70s, or even earlier. After watching the movie, the friends reacted strangely. There was one opinion that it was too weak for the 70s, but when I said that this creation was released by a young actor director Ty West in 2008. Everyone was shocked and instantly realized that the film was special and nostalgic. The immersion in the last century did not leave me throughout the film. He's really scary. Especially the last scenes. It's a very scary makeup.
Plot:
The main character buys a house for which she needs to pay bail. She has no money, only the desire to earn any way. So she finds an announcement that the family needs a nanny. Arriving at the house of that family, the main character learns more and more terrifying details.
The actress really liked it. She's not boring, sweet and attractive. I was pleased with her very decisive action at the end, when usually the heroines of horror films begin to dull. The film is not a simple meat grinder, but a strong psychological horror. A couple of times my heart beat like mad.
The ending was impressive, but unfortunately a bit disappointing. There are so many references in the film that it takes about an hour to list them all. The movie is long enough. It seamlessly introduces us into the narrative and then plunges us into horror and fear.
A great imitator of the genre, who is not afraid to play with colors and genres. Due to the excellent directing, camera work, actress and soundtrack I put:
The name “Devil’s House” intrigued, and the trailer seemed to promise at least some development of the plot. The movie certainly has advantages. Very atmospheric transferred the era of the 80s. From the very beginning, you immerse yourself in the problems of the heroine and it really claims to be a worthy logical plot. Even a predictable plot in such conditions does not look like a disadvantage. Expectations for the film immediately increase. You expect that since the film was shot in 2008, there will be some highlight, the director will try to bypass the famous clichés and show his imagination. And to some extent, it is.
The film is not typical for modern horror films, in which you start to be afraid already in the first half of the film. It takes more than two-thirds of the movie before you start to feel stressed. Perhaps the idea was to immerse the viewer in the situation of the heroine, to feel her emotions and at the end to experience the horror of the events experienced. Unfortunately, I was unable to do so. For most of the film, I watched a girl walk around the house. I had no idea at all that it was possible to build a film on how a person walks around someone else’s house.
This is the weak side of the film. It doesn't sink into a state of terror or tension, it sinks into the '80s. I had the impression that the creator wanted to do just that. Namely, to make a horror movie of the 80s. This movie was very, very reliable, but the horror film is not very.
It takes the last 20 minutes of the film. All this time it seems that the script was written by a child or teenager. This feeling arises from the simplicity of dialogue and logical turns. It seems that every word and action tries to explain to the viewer the essence of what is happening. Why it was necessary to show the previous 75 minutes of the film remains a mystery.
I can't call it a bad movie. It's simple and has its own charm. It is worth watching, if only for the sake of admiring how the director masterfully captured the atmosphere of that time and was able to embody it on the screen. If you want to experience tension or fear, it is unlikely to succeed even at the eventful end of the film. In general, the script is probably the weakest part of this film.
4 out of 10
Not without interest and pleasure spent the evening in the company of this very original and curious canvas by Ty West.
First of all, I would like to note the atypical style and manner of presentation for modern cinema. Not only is the plot "Devil's House" deliberately simple and even naive (although there are no surprises still did not do) to become its name, so it is also filmed in such a way that even an experienced film lover, creates a strong feeling that watching the film released 30 years ago. And in this case, this is a compliment, because the style of the 80s is observed just flawlessly, the director created a real homage not only to the horror genre, but to the entire cinema of that time as a whole. The angles of the camera, the noise of the film, the general entourage and atmosphere - all this is an exemplary "clutter" for the cinema of that era. Chic vintage style, unique in its kind and truly unexpected for our time approach distinguishes the film from the gray mass of horrors of modernity.
Unfortunately, even this does not justify such a delay in the narrative, and if it does, it is only partially. It was not necessary to delay events so painfully, the regularity in attempts to create suspense and competently catch up with horrors on the viewer - this is of course good, but in this case, the complete lack of dynamics is harmful and the cinema is balancing on the verge of suspended animation. An unprepared viewer simply risks falling asleep - no one is going to entertain him.
Therefore, in the final you wait for some greasy point and believe that a real horror is about to begin, which would justify a dull, albeit not uninteresting, action, but alas... the banal apotheosis of this story is rather saddening.
But still, the atmosphere, originality and cute main character (the actress perfectly coped with the image of a frivolous victim of circumstances), together pull the film to an acceptable level. Impressions are generally positive and remain quite unusual aftertaste on the second day after viewing.
7 out of 10
Here’s an interesting fact: the creators are so serious about recreating the era that officially released their brainchild on VHS (!). It can still be ordered online for about $20, at a time when even the Ultra-HD format is becoming commonplace. Real nostalgia.
A horror film in which all the “horror” is strictly dosed. T. West acts like John Carpenter in the days of "Mist" and "Halloween." The atmosphere is long and carefully pumped ... and then, once - and cut black hair ominously appear at the bottom of the bathroom. The action begins, running under the "synthesizing" booms.
West shows great taste. Excellent music, successful camera solutions ... the director does his best to achieve authenticity of antiquity and at certain moments he succeeds. You can immediately see that on viewing genre paintings of the 70-80s he ate a dog.
The film lacks purely plot entertainment, "entertainment". Therefore, for sure, a good part of the audience “House” will scare away, everything works on the director’s plan to create, sculpt, belittle – his special atmosphere. He doesn’t care about intrigue, plot twists and turns... That is, do not care, of course, completely, but this is far from the main thing for the director. In "Devil's House," the viewer either immediately turns on and begins to understand, or ... it is not worth watching at all.
The picture is low-budget. It helps West to create on the field of naked enthusiasm. The only thing I want to note is that the final part (the last 15-20 minutes), which many who watched put above the initial part, still seemed weaker. There already began a complete creative lawlessness, the camera-shaking appeared and somewhere went a beautiful stylization.
A few words about Mary Crows: the actress is wonderful and worth paying attention to, in this film she was infernally awesome and fascinating.
In 2008, young director Ty West made his third film, The Devil’s House. And it turned out to be pretty good! If you do not look at the time of creation, you can easily think that the picture was shot in the 70s - 80s (only excellent image quality can alert you). And it turned out that not only the action takes place in the old days, but also filmed this same action in the same year. You can notice such details as a cassette player, jeans, gracefully sitting just above the waist, and the chequered shirt of the main character, in which there is nothing special, but for some reason it blows the seventies. The interior of the house! Although, without Samantha's "cassette" one would think that the furniture and objects in the house - antiques. And this, in fact, one of the important points for which Ty West deserves praise.
It all begins with the fact that the student gets a job as a nanny to some people whose house is located in a rather remote place near the cemetery.
The plot develops slowly, but you can feel a worthy attempt by the author to heat up the situation, slowly infusing events: strange inhabitants of the house, a lunar eclipse, alarming sounds and so on. Pretty good, by the way, it works. The actress is a very cute and cute girl, so it’s nice to watch her stagger around empty rooms or jump with her player. This discharges the quiet and ominous aura of the house, as it is impossible to look at the fun (maybe fake?) Sam doesn't smile. So, a good hour passes between the cases (of 95 minutes), and apart from the terrible hints of the horror of the coming, little happens. But then, when Samantha still has serious trouble on the horizon, everything goes like a knife to butter. I will not go into details, I will only say that the conclusion unexpectedly pleasantly compensates the viewing time for those who were not sufficiently satisfied with the action on the screen, and, in principle, for everyone else.
Interesting film in terms of unusual approach to it director. I would add more action, sharp shock moments and a couple more episodes with something like this: for example, it would be possible to breathe more evil, fear, psychological pressure into the house of the “devil” (which becomes such only in the end), and there would be a spectacular horror. However, it will also work.
Ty West, a horror maker worth paying attention to. Not that he was a genius and an unsurpassed master in his field, but it is clear that the guy has talent. If you look at the top 10 favorite horror films of Ty West (on the website of Total Film), you can understand his preferences, samples of the genre, what he is or maybe just has in mind, creating his paintings. And as we can see below, his lips are not stupid.
Top 10 Horror Films (Ti West)
1. Shining (1980)
2. The Exorcist (1973)
3. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
4. Jaws (1975)
5. The Changeling (1980)
6. Psycho (1960)
7. Alien (1979)
8. "Night of the Living Dead" (1968)
9. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
10. Halloween (1978)
Of these ten tapes, at least one of them contains a clear reference, which amazingly fit into the ending.
7 out of 10
The budget of this project is about a hundred thousand dollars, which means that nothing special and exciting to expect. In fact, Ty West didn’t want to make a shocking horror movie because, as we were told at the beginning of the film, the plot is based on real events. And the film itself is not a horror film, but a dark mystical story, frightening not shown on the screen (although they too), but the atmosphere.
The story is quite simple, and generally not too diverse. In search of work, a student is forced to agree to become a nurse for an old grandmother for one night, being in a huge mansion. Little by little, she begins to notice something inexplicable in the house, and then she has to become a hostage of a gathering of Satanists who plan to conduct a ritual over her.
I'll tell you right away, West doesn't rush the film. The action takes place quite slowly, accelerating only to the last twenty minutes. From a first impression, you can say that the film is very boring and dreary, but this is not true - in fact, the first hour of screen time West introduces us to the right atmosphere, forcing us to penetrate into what is happening. If you don’t, don’t watch or turn off the movie. On the contrary, I congratulate you, because you are waiting for a truly shocking and mysterious events in the last minutes of the film.
Now for those minutes. Here everything goes to a high level - and fear, and worry for the heroine. Especially I want to note the moments of running the main character through an empty house from pursuing her maniacs. And the theme of Satanism and other occultism is practically fully disclosed. We can say that this is the main theme of the film, sustained until the shocking finale.
Despite a rather modest budget, the quality of the film is very high, besides it can drive you into a strange sense of understatement and hopelessness, which in itself - not every low-budget film can boast of this. And the acting game is quite good, because for the character Donahue really worried. Well, in the rest - a rather average picture on the subject of Satanism, which is not so much.
7 out of 10
The only thing that I could show in this movie is the time transition, it really feels like you're watching 1970, but that's where the good stuff ends. The first hour is terribly boring, the last 30 minutes are not scary, even in the dark, even alone. By the end, the main character was terribly annoyed, I myself was ready to kill her. And her going there -- here -- really pissed me off. There are a lot of similar horror films, but they either make sense or scary, in this film I did not see either the first or the second.
The film is based on real events. I may not have seen anything unusual in this movie. The first hour is an ordinary life, this is how everyone lives (although my life is more interesting, well, come on). If it is a mystery, I have not seen it. Ordinary owners are psychotics (there are plenty of such in life), they were sectarians and there are plenty of such in our lives. In our time, too, many people are addicted to violence. The only impossible thing is, how did this girl survive?
When the titles appeared, the only question arose:" What is all this? If you still decide to miss the first hour, you will not see anything interesting there.
2 out of 10
Part-time work for students, experience is not required.
The film is commendable. First, the authentic style that has been talked about a lot. This is not the squalor of vintage, typical of many forms of modern art. I even had to check on the website if there was an old movie with the same name. Second, interesting. It is not clear how, but with almost complete absence of dynamics, an hour out of one and a half flew like 10 minutes. Mysticism, that's all. Third, scenes of violence. It's been a long time since the good old ultra-violence, not the new-fangled stupid meat. Fourth, the main character. Sweet, determined, but with her human passions and thirst for easy profit. However, her behavior in critical situations is also quite human, and not like the poor frightened (and hopelessly stupid) boys and girls from ordinary thrashack. It all sounds great.
And so it is a pity that such paintings can be found only on the advice of sophisticated comrades or as a result of a happy accident.
Quite banal and predictable horror. We’ve seen this many times in films of this kind. Here there is one of the standard sets of genre. There is a large house, standing alone, almost on the outskirts of the forest. The inhabitants of this house, who are a little strange, and behave in general suspiciously. Of course, here we see the main character of the film - a young girl who must, by coincidence, decide for herself whether she should come to these people and spend some time in the house or not.
But, as in most cases, not all these oddities and other things that seem suspicious, much will not affect the decision of the heroine, and she still appears on the threshold of a strange house. That’s where you could turn on the imagination and give free rein to your imagination, so that the audience was in constant tension and waiting for something frightening and unusual.
Apparently, the authors tried to strictly adhere to the concept and sequence that they outlined, because the film was based on real events. I don’t know how real all the events shown in this film are, but in the end everything looks without the inherent tension and interest.
To begin with, we note the chic stylization of the eighties. If I hadn’t watched the 2009 movie, I would have thought I was watching VHS movies. Actually, this stylization is perhaps the only thing for which the filmmakers can really be praised. Really cool. The plot is simple, based on real events. The young lady responds to the announcement on rabat babysitter and is sent, in fact, to perform their duties. Such a simple story, gradually, acquires all sorts of circumstances that make it interesting. For example, buying a house, a relationship with a friend, etc.
To say that the film is slow is to say nothing. A lot of screen time is devoted to brooding glances somewhere beyond consciousness, silence, binaural sounds, waiting for something. All in all, T. West fired as much as he could to delay the moment of direct action. The very part of the horror is difficult to appreciate - in my opinion, banal and never scary. And for the delusional ending of the author, you can recommend a small mental health examination.
The movie "Devil's House" is a bit strange, which only wins. T. West, who specializes in low-budget horror movies, does almost everything himself. He's a director, writer and editor. I must say that I have never shunned low-budget films, as I know that unexpectedly successful films appear in this category from time to time. This is exactly the case here.
It happens that initially everything is attracted to the film. Description, trailer, the beginning, stylized to the movie of the 70s. Even the titles - and they are made with taste. But the main thing, of course, is the special rhythm in which the events of the film take place. You can’t say that there are many terrible scenes in the film, the director left them for last. Almost all the main time of the picture, the viewer is invited to be in the mysterious and disturbing atmosphere of a strange house, where the main character came to work as a nurse at the invitation of no less strange owners. This atmosphere is created thanks to the good work of the operator through the detailed decoration plans of the old house, where the emphasis is on unusual and sometimes sinister elements of its environment. This is the main point of the film. This is also facilitated by good work with sound. We are talking, first of all, not so much about music as about the sound background - whether it is a creaking door or steps on the stairs, the whisper of the wind in dark corridors.
All together, this makes the film highly appreciated.