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Title: The House of the Devil
Post by: Stefen on November 09, 2009, 01:35:49 PM
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Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-zJ5eQsjxw

Has anyone else seen this? I wish I knew about it for Halloween because it's seriously one of the scariest movies I've seen. It's filmed in 16mm and looks exactly like an 80's slasher film. I mean exactly. It starts off a little slow, but it never gets boring because it's very atmospheric.

Awesome, awesome movie.
Title: Re: The House of the Devil
Post by: Ghostboy on November 09, 2009, 03:28:49 PM
One of the year's ten best for sure. Even though they misspelled my name in the credits. : )
Title: Re: The House of the Devil
Post by: JG on November 09, 2009, 06:19:57 PM
Was lucky enough to see it early in the day on Halloween. Very good, hits all the right notes, slowly inching toward its inevitable conclusion. Gets suspense right. That said, I'm not sure the payoff worked, but I'll give it a pass just because all that precedes it is kinda perfect. Best scary movie in a bit. (Top 20).
Title: Re: The House of the Devil
Post by: matt35mm on November 11, 2009, 02:54:53 PM
They should have called this The House of Wasted Pizza.

I liked it.
Title: Re: The House of the Devil
Post by: squints on June 16, 2010, 03:32:15 PM
Just saw this. What a perfect little horror movie. Its out on dvd and on netflix instant so everyone should see it. The music is fantastic as well, all of the elements add up to make it feel like it could've been made in 1985. First movie in a long time that actually made me jump.
Title: Re: The House of the Devil
Post by: ᾦɐļᵲʊʂ on June 16, 2010, 04:45:46 PM
Yeah, I was definitely surprised by this.  It manages to ease in the tension and shifts really smoothly into frightening panic mode and the ending is such a great sendup to the bleak nature of 80's slasher pics.

Quote from: Ghostboy on November 09, 2009, 03:28:49 PM
One of the year's ten best for sure. Even though they misspelled my name in the credits. : )

What did you do in the movie?