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The House of the Devil

2009

Ti West

Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, Greta Gerwig ...

5.5

3,448

Horror In the 1980s, college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret...

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"An 80s-style shocker which promises much at first (...) But things quickly get silly and unscary (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"[West] shows a real gift for the genre, particularly in his ability to generate dread with pinpricks rather than bludgeoning shocks, something even veterans twice his age have difficulty achieving"	POS
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"This is the perfect illustration of the banality of most scare movies as it's a horror movie without any horror until the last reel when fake blood gets painted on actors."	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The film may provide an introduction for some audience members to the Hitchcockian definition of 'suspense': It's the anticipation, not the happening, that's the fun (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Nick Schager Slant	"Its rhythms, dialogue, and period detail are so finely attuned to the style of its chosen era that (...) the film might pass as an exhumed relic (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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