The House of the Devil
Directed by Ti West
A stranger lures a babysitter to a house with an unusually large sum of money. But when she arrives, Samantha doesn’t find any kids. Just a large and very creepy house, that may not be as empty as it seems. Indie horror director Ti West (THE INNKEEPERS) made his mark with this terrifying ‘80s throwback, featuring cult horror legends like Dee Wallace (THE HOWLING), Mary Woronov (NIGHT OF THE COMET), plus Greta Gerwig - before she hit it big. You’ll never bop around listening to headphones in an empty house again after watching what happens to Samantha. Contains violence and gore.
A man lures a babysitter to a house with an unusually large sum of money.
Cast: Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, Greta Gerwig, AJ Bowen
Member Reviews
really liked it
Now, the confrontation between the Messenger of God and the Messenger Lucifer, which is about Lucifer almost penetrating human life at a crucial moment, only to be ruined by three ultra-intelligent individuals drawing absurd symbols and performing bizarre rituals on Samantha, a meek and poor dorm girl, supposedly to allow their so-called Lord Lucifer to infiltrate the world. Look at this. I don’t understand what happened in the movie. For more than two-thirds of the film, nearly three-quarters, we watched the timid Samantha, who's poor and from a dorm, and her fears against life. The person who wrote the story was probably a meek dorm girl like Samantha. And then, for example, there are absurd scenes. The girl opens the curtain and there are hairs. Hair strands, hairs inside the bathroom. These are all problems faced by meek dorm girls. Like leaving their hairs in the shower after shaving. They shave and just leave their hairs there. These types of fears and phobias are included. References to the 1970s, the 60s. Like Night of the Living Dead. Come on, this film was made in 2009. I'm not into these modern 1970s retro shoots anymore. I don’t like this trend. It was done in the 1960s, 70s, and that’s it. Enough. Stop being influenced by that era. I'm speaking to horror filmmakers. So, I didn’t really like it much. It was unnecessarily prolonged.
This was such a good time! It felt so much like a 70s horror flick and captured the esthetic perfectly. Always fun to see Tom Noonan pop up.
Slow and predictable
loved this movie. As others have stated, the 70s feel made it even better.