Some people have mentioned this feels very much like a 1980s horror film and even in the film's own context it touches upon the decade by stating that 70% of Americans believed in ritual Satanic abuse . Would this include Satanic sexual abuse too ? The idea of Satanic sexual abuse spread like wildfire in the latter part of the decade due to a clique of so called experts saying they had evidence and what its symptoms were which led to many people being arrested and accused but as the claims became more outlandish no evidence whatsoever that it existed was proved and Satanic sexual abuse quickly disappeared from the headlines but not before lives were destroyed in a witch hunt and testimony once again that so called self appointed experts should always be challenged . I shouldn't also have to point out that just because a large percentage of people believe something it doesn't make something correct . I digress
With a title like THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL and the opening caption I thought I might be watching some American equivalent of a Dennis Wheatley story about all manner of creepy getting together to sacrifice a virgin in a moon lit field . This isn't how the movie plays out . As it happens a young female student needing money agrees to babysit for a man . Perhaps the fact that he's paying well over the odds might have set her spidey senses tingling but hey we're all slaves to money to a degree .She sits in the house listening to her I-pod and ... well that's most of the film . Nothing much happens and while it deserves some credit for not descending in to seen it all before cliché one would have preferred a much more incident driven story
With a title like THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL and the opening caption I thought I might be watching some American equivalent of a Dennis Wheatley story about all manner of creepy getting together to sacrifice a virgin in a moon lit field . This isn't how the movie plays out . As it happens a young female student needing money agrees to babysit for a man . Perhaps the fact that he's paying well over the odds might have set her spidey senses tingling but hey we're all slaves to money to a degree .She sits in the house listening to her I-pod and ... well that's most of the film . Nothing much happens and while it deserves some credit for not descending in to seen it all before cliché one would have preferred a much more incident driven story