Horror Rated NR
“…offers occasional moments of inspiration, but it’s mostly exhausting and eventually tedious.”
Horror Rated R
"…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.
The second attempt at a Thing movie, John Carpenter’s 1982 version is “a film about tentacles and teeth and eyes and orifices and goo, goo, goo.”
“…the light, yet dangerous tone is due, mainly, to Colin Farrell.
“If Gollum and the Tooth Fairy got together and spawned a horde of young’uns, they might resemble the terrible little creatures here…
“…spoofs itself and – rather viciously – its own fans.”
