Larry C.

Watched the BD last night. What a really fun flick. I loved the way the whole thing was shot. Thank you Ti West we get so much BS nowadays its so nice to be refreshed with a good horror film.

BTW for Gods sake if anyone ever asked you guys if you are the babysitter......

mattressman

Next time someone asks if you're a god, you say YES!

OldBoy

just saw this excellent, excellent little horror flick.

who cares that the set up is almost 70 minutes bc that set up is absolutely fantastic.

usually i like my blood and guts horror movies of old, but this was so different and really builds the tension magnificently. really, truly builds slowly and you have no idea what the f--- is going on and then when you find out, it is just an emotional and tension filled roller coaster to the end.

this won't be for everyone, but given a chance and just succumb to the time and atmosphere, the pay-off is terrific.

really well done and i highly recommend. giving it to a friend/colleague of mine who shares similar tastes and loves 80's horror, in an unmarked DVD case and not tell him anything about it except to stick with it. i want to see if he can tell when it was made and see his face to find out.

Tom Noonan might be the only give away bc i am sure he would know who he is and to see he isn't as young as in Manhunter might be a tip-off.

riley_dude

I think that a lot of people are expecting a Friday the 13 sorta pace but this is a slow build like horror movies of the 70s and early 80's. Young audiences aren't used to that.
It kinda reminded me of one my old Favorites, Burnt Offerings.

JJE-187

I watched this last night, really good movie. It kinda had a When A Stranger Calls meets Rosemary's Baby vibe and I loved it, a hell of a lot better than the other Ti West film I seen this week (Cabin Fever 2)

Matthew Ackerly

I thought I would give his first film, The Roost, another shot, since I hated it the first time...

And I still hated it. What a boring, amateurish, piece of crap that is.

He's come a long way in only three films. The difference in quality between The Roost and House of the Devil is astounding.

I understand there was a budget difference, but still.

Sessa17

Yeah, The Roost was a completely awful film. If you've seen that first it kind of makes HOTD even better because you may be expecting another terrible movie.

OldBoy

imagine my utter surprise that my recent rental was directed by the very same director of House of the Devil. and that would be...

Spoiler:

Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever

i think i read about it in the DVDTalk Forum but forgot. i haven't watched it yet and don't have high hopes, but it should be interesting to first see a surprise marvel in House and then what i believe will be a schlock-fest.

islandclaws

Why is that a spoiler?

J. Farley

You should watch Trigger Man.

OldBoy

i like to build tension and suspense.

NoirFan

I absolutely loved the first seventy or so minutes of the film, but the climax was a bit of a letdown. Therein lies the essential problem of this kind of horror film - your imagination does such a superior job of envisioning all kinds of nastiness, that when it comes time for the actual reveal, it's never as good as it was in your own mind. West did a great job of building the suspense though. I wish the score during the final graveyard confrontation wasn't so modern-sounding - a bit of Carpenter-style keyboard cheese would have been far more appropriate. The Cars-esque theme music in the beginning was spot-on, I would have liked something a bit more in that vein. It took me out of the sequence a bit. A question: Noonan and Woronov were effectively creepy. Noonan has such a soft , flat voice - it really makes your skin crawl. He was memorable as a pedophile in an X-Files episode. All in all, a very fun viewing experience - it really brought me back to my Junior High days of renting washed-out VHS tapes in oversized clamshell cases!

Joe Molotov

Gunde

It's REALLY fucking awful!

OldBoy

yes it was.

NoirFan

RichC2

To his credit, Ti West disowned Cabin Fever 2 after the studio basically took it away from him in the editing room.

RagingBull80

I saw this last night and knew nothing about it. I missed this thread somehow. I was just told that it was a horror movie in the style of the 80's horror movie. I've not been a fan of recent horror movies so hearing this intrigued me.

The movie had me at the credit sequence and then it just got better. I loved it. If I had not known who Tom Noonan was and had seen this on TV, I would have thought it was some horror movie from the 80s I hadn't seen yet.

I am however very disappointed that the DVD/VHS combo is now OOP. There's a copy on E-bay going for over $50.

Zen Peckinpah

This is one sneaky little bastard of a movie, I tell you. First of all, it's about time we get a horror film made nowadays that burns slowly and doesn't relay its scares on gore or musical stingers. A shame this didn't get a wider release or a more prominent distributor. Also cool seeing Tom Noonan and Mary Woronov show up.

Gunde

Well, he still directed all those shitty scenes. And all that atrocious acting.
It would have been a horrible movie anyway.

GenPion

Saw this movie tonight. The suspense and build up is good, but I don't care much for the ending to the film. It's rushed and too interested in gore and quick shocks - which is surprising considering the film's first hour or so, which was excellent... Honestly, it felt like the director just gave up at the end of the film.

JayDerek

It's an original piece that a friend of the filmmaker made for him. His name is Mike Armstrong.

I did some digging last night after watching the film for the first time wondering where I could find that song as the soundtrack on iTunes didn't include it. I was able to contact Mike via email and literally 5 minutes later he sent me the mp3 file for the opening track. He did admit that it is a riff on The Cars 'Moving in Stereo' but thanked me for my interest.

Anyways, if anyone is interested, PM me your email address and I can send it over to you.

miller_time22

That's very cool that he would send it to you like that. Thanks again for sharing!

Rival11

Cool movie - definitely reminded me of the flicks I got yelled at for watching when I was a kid....I was NOT expecting what happens in the last half hour at all.

Wouldn't watch it again or anything but I definitely was entertained by it.

inri222

Saw this last night for the first time. I have to say that this along with Let the Right One In are 2 of the finest horror movies I have seen in a while. They just don't make them as good as this anymore.