The House of the Devil (2009)
Let’s start out first on the story. This chick needs money for a place to live. Instead of hooking like a normal broad she goes out and gets a job babysitting. Only, she finds out the baby is some tall dudes mom … at least that’s what the tall dude says. Oh, and there is this thing going on with the moon and it turns out there is some evil shite afoot and …
Now, what works with this story is the fact that you feel uncomfortable from the beginning no matter how she shakes her silly little tail. The further along you get you realize something is going to happen and it builds and builds for about 50 minutes and then something big happens …
SPOILER WARNING
After the main chick’s friend drops her off at the babysitting gig she pulls off the road to light a cigarette and finds that her lighter doesn’t work. Some dude pushes a lit lighter in front of her making her and me both jump. She lights her cigarette and thanks him. He verifies that she is not the babysitter, all friendly like, and then blows her face off with a pistol. Shocking. This is what is in store for you in the next forty minutes of the film.
The film basically begins to play like a survival horror game. To me, this is why the film works so well. It reminded me of the original Resident Evil and a game called Haunting Ground (PS2) in mood and shock value. If you like this kind of thing, please see this film. It is good.
Check out the Rotten Tomatoes Review below. Killer!
