Horror Rated R
“…impeccably crafted in its all-important fright scenes.”
Horror Rated PG-13
“…a B picture on a massive budget.”
“…above all a movie about spaces, and how few things are more frightening than not knowing which way to go.”
“…a blatant allegory in which drug addiction stands in for demonic possession (and vice versa).”
Horror Rated NR
“…offers occasional moments of inspiration, but it’s mostly exhausting and eventually tedious.”
"…an experimental overlapping of dialogue, image, voiceover and music that makes you feel as if you’re suffering from an awful fever dream."
“…a film of such frothy geekery that watching it is like having a comic-book store dropped on your head.
Writer-director-editor Ti West gives The House of the Devil a rad VHS vibe. It’s set in the 1980s, and looks, feels and sounds as if it was made during that era (you have to love the Carpenteresque soundtrack). Sporting feathered hair and a gargantuan personal tape player, Jocelin Donahue plays Samantha Hughes, a cash-strapped college
“…oddly unremarkable: less surely controlled than House of the Devil, less interesting in terms of form and, perhaps worst of all, not scary in the least.
“I wasn’t going to give Paranormal Activity 3 a very good review. Then I tried to sleep the night I saw it.
