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Horror buff here. In a relative sense, a score of 5.2 with over 1400 votes would suggest horror gold. This movie is not horror gold. It is not a diamond in the rough. It is terrible. Not scary - at all. Terrible acting. Terrible F/X. I am not sure how this title garnered a respectable score here. Don't waste your time with this movie unless you are a cognitively challenged 13 year old girl. Believe me, this is coming from someone who judges horror on a completely separate metric, and in general I'm usually much more forgiving, score wise (any intriguing horror movie that keeps my attention and spooks me out deserves at least a 6 or 7, baseline). This movie is barely a 3.

If you want under-recognized (but NOT underrated critically) horror gold watch the remake of "the crazies." What a flick!!

The acting, dialogue, and special effects are absolutely atrocious. The character, Taylor, might be about the most annoying character in any show, and her one-liners make me cringe. The story is dumb and makes no sense. I'm pretty sure the ending was nearly impossible. But for some strange reason I kinda liked it. It was one of those "so bad it's good" kind of films. I'd probably never watch it again, but it was kind of fun while it lasted. But don't go into this expecting any sort of quality.

I'm generally not very critical of these types of horror movies. I'll forgive overacting and predictable plot-lines so long as its entertaining, but I kept spacing out while watching this one. The basic premise of the movie is kinda cool imo but the writing just kinda sucked, the dialogue was cheesy, and that last scene seemed to drag on forever.

Christ almighty this was terrible. Unoriginal plot, cringe-worthy acting (I can usually tolerate mediocre acting but this was real bad), typical idiot stereotypical teenagers making idiotic choices.

I watched it all the way through just to be thorough but god do I regret that.

Whoever voted this a 10/10 I want to know what you're smoking.

There's no way this has a collective 5.2 rating. Horrible plot, dull acting and no scares. Hard pass.

This film was so predictable, it was like I wrote the script. Very slow, very boring and an absolute yawn-fest. Save yourself an hour and a half and go for a walk, instead.

It is a teen horror movie, you expect predictable! It is what they do with that predictably that counts. This one uses some imagination in the story, gives you a few good scares, tight direction and pretty decent acting from a young cast. If you start one of these and complain about it being predictable you shouldn't start it it in the first place and you have nothing to gripe about. Overall it was way ahead of 70% of those in this genre and that alone is worth a 7 in my book.

Got through the first 35 minutes of the movie. It was so bad that I was literally rooting for the witch to just kill off all of the cast members. I'm almost positive the directors had a plot going and then gave up and started winging it.

Has it been done before? Yes Is it a 'cliche teenagers locked in a haunted house and can't escape' film? Yes Does it deserve all these bad reviews? No!

Look yeah it's been done a million times like most films have been nowadays, but the fx aren't horrible like everyone keeps saying, the acting is fine and not as bad a MANY movies I've seen, and it wasn't a boring film at all.

I'm not sure why so many people hated it, I'm way late to the party with watching this one because I'm not usually a fan of supernatural horror (love a good slasher but not ghost stuff) but I was bored during Melbourne lockdown 5.0 and thought I'd give it a shot!

Worth a watch if you like jump scares and teenagers dying in gross ways, it's not low budget and the house is very cool.

Right, well initially I had very little expectations to this, being a SyFy movie and all. But still, I am an avid horror fan and I liked the movie's cover/poster, as it seemed interesting.

It turned out that "House of the Witch" was actually one of the better SyFy movies that I have seen in quite some time. Not only did they up their production game, which had a tremendous effect on the end result of the movie, but they also managed to put together a movie with a proper storyline and one that had good effects.

Granted, this is not the most original of stories. In fact, everything here has been seen elsewhere in other movies. So don't get your hopes up on originality. But still, it worked out well enough, because writer Neil Elman and director Alex Merkin individually managed to create something that had a good flow and harmony to it.

The characters in the movie were fairly average, albeit a bit on the generic side, in terms of how characters tend to be in movies such as these. Hardly memorable characters by any means, but the actors and actresses did good jobs with what they had to work with.

"House of the Witch" does have its moments in terms of being creepy and scary. However, it is not a movie that will scare the living daylights out of you. It is worth sitting down to watch it once, if you have the time and chance.

My friends and I wasted an hour and 30 minutes watching this trash of a movie. It was dumb from the beginning, all the way to the end. The actors were terrible, and the effects couldn't even fool a child. If I could give it a 0 I would. You're better off watching CareBears, it's wayyyyy scarier than this.

The movie in general was pretty creepy, the effects worked fairly well, and I definitely jumped a few times. But all of this is greatly eclipsed by the complete and utter idiocy of these people. They split up on multiple occasions and are then confused as to why they can't find people, spend the whole movie wandering around the house with no clue what to do, ask people to makes phone calls after the tenth declaration that's there's no service, and in general are just stupid. The script is terrible. The storyline has no point and no flow. Just a bad movie all around.

It's a bunch of teens but there's no story... They go to a house. The dialogue is terrible. Skip this and watch something with a story. Special effects were like early 2000s PowerPoint level technology aka worse than bad.

Had hopes for this movie but sadly the stupidity factor stepped in. Why is it that all horror writers believe that everyone is an idiot? If just one horror movie could have an intelligent person in the story I would enjoy it (and rate higher).

Bad script, inept direction, awful "acting," etc. This was obviously written around the location, in the hometown of the producer. The "house" isn't frightening, in the least - just a decades-old "Federal" styled mansion, next to a freeway. (The property is apparently being converted into a business, housing, and retirement complex? I found a few old articles on Google, but didn't explore further.)

How this kind of stuff makes it onto a major streaming entity, is puzzling. It was aired on a cable channel originally.

I read an interview with the producer, and it is cringe-worthy.

By the final fifteen minutes, I was laughing, and not in a "Plan 9" kind of way.

Skip it, by all means.

I came into this movie with extremely low expectations. I initially turned it on just to have in the background while I watch YouTube. But the story quickly pulled me in and held my attention all the way to the credits.

First off, this movie is not great. The dialog is pretty poor (mostly in the first half) and some of the acting decisions felt a little awkward and took me out of the story. The computer generated effects were not good either.

However, there are a TON of positives I can give for this movie. First off, considering the budget was around four million dollars, the set design was exceptional. The abandoned estate felt real and each room had its own scary "personality" that helped increase the fear. Next, the makeup design for the gruesome death scenes was done spectacularly and looked absolutely disgusting. Finally, while the acting was not great for the first 20ish minutes, the performances in the second have caught my attention in a positive way. The actors portrayed the feeling of "no escape" to a more then believable degree, and their desperation near the end of the movie felt genuine.

Overall, for a low budget horror flick, the movie was very enjoyable to watch. While I wouldn't call this movie great, it's negatives are outdone by its positives. It is definitely worth a stream.

Entertaining, not a self confessed wannabe horror director... But still...

It's not that bad if you didn't actually spend money on it. There are some moments....simple haunted house, lower budget masterpiece. If you're bored, give it a shot.

Who'd they pay to get it to say 5/10 stars on the main page? imdb, or reviewers... there's NO way that's real. after watching it and reading the other reviews on here, the studio did that somehow... no way honest reviews would lead to anything more than a 2.

Hormonal 30 year old teenagers trapped in a house with a gh-gh-gh-ghost.

CGI eggs. Masterpiece.