House (2008)

User Rating:

5.0/10   

Director:

Robby Henson

Writers:

Ted Dekker (novel)
Rob Green (screenplay)

Release Date:

18 March 2009 (Egypt)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

The only way out... is in.

Plot:

In rural Alabama, two couples find themselves in a fight for survival. Running from a maniac (The Tin Man) bent on killing them...

Plot Keywords:

Game | Death | Evil | Tin Can | Sunrise

Cast

Michael Madsen	...	Tin Man / Officer Lawdale
Reynaldo Rosales	...	Jack Singleton
Heidi Dippold	...	Stephanie Singleton
Julie Ann Emery	...	Leslie Taylor
J.P. Davis	...	Randy Messarue
Lew Temple	...	Pete
Leslie Easterbrook	...	Betty
Bill Moseley	...	Stewart
Pawel Delag	...	Officer Lawdale
Weronika Rosati	...	Mrs. Lawdale
Allana Bale	...	Susan
Mark Fierer	...	Randy's Father
Florentyna Synowiecka	...	Melissa Singleton
Andrew Gorzen	...	Leslie's Uncle
Albert Pietrzak	...	Young Randy

MPAA:

Rated R for some violence and terror.

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:R | Singapore:PG | Netherlands:16 | Australia:MA | Australia:MA (2009) | Philippines:PG-13 (MTRCB) | Argentina:16

Filming Locations:

Lodz, Poland

Company:

More Entertainment

Trivia:

Leslie Easterbrook and Bill Moseley had played "mother and son" once before, in The Devil's Rejects (2005).

Goofs:

Continuity: In the beginning, when Stephanie (Heidi Dippold) is in the car painting her toenails, the camera shows a close up of all of them painted. But, after a quick shot just before she pulls the newspaper up to view, you can clearly see that her right big toenail is still unpainted, even though in the previous shot, it was.

Movie Connections:

References The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Soundtrack:

Love Saves the Day

Loved the Book, Liked the film.

Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti are amazing authors, and their book 'House' is still one of my favorite, and one of the (if not the) scariest book I've ever read. The movie was... okay. The initial problem I saw was the fact they tried to fit five-six hours of reading into an hour and a half of film. After watching the movie, I also realized that if you didn't read the book, you'd have absolutely NO CLUE what was going on. None whatsoever. That's a problem. Because I read the book, I was able to keep up with, generally, what was going on, but the film did not do the fantastic book justice. But now onto the movie.

The acting was typical Christian-movie acting. There's an old saying in the Christian Film industry. 'We cannot take the able and make them faithful; we must take the faithful, and God will make them able.' This is no exception. The acting was second-rate, and sometimes not believable. The music was good, and the special effects were pretty great, too, but no 'A-movie' quality. The story, like I said, is non- sense and confusing to those who have not read the book.

Here's the bottom line. If you read the book, go see it. If you haven't, don't. You won't get anything from it.