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Ti West (screenplay)
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Talk on the phone. Finish your homework. Watch T.V. DIE! more
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In the 1980s, college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret; they plan to use her in a satanic ritual. | add synopsis
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(187 articles)
New Double-Feature Soundtrack Coming: The House of the Devil / I Can See You
(From Dread Central. 14 November 2009, 11:31 AM, PST)
Movie Review: The House of the Devil
(From MovieRetriever. 12 November 2009, 8:31 PM, PST)
(From Dread Central. 14 November 2009, 11:31 AM, PST)
Movie Review: The House of the Devil
(From MovieRetriever. 12 November 2009, 8:31 PM, PST)
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The Devil is in the Details, and the Classic Horror
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jocelin Donahue | ... | Samantha | |
| Tom Noonan | ... | Mr. Ulman | |
| Mary Woronov | ... | Mrs. Ulman | |
| Greta Gerwig | ... | Megan | |
| AJ Bowen | ... | Victor Ulman | |
| Dee Wallace | ... | Landlady | |
| Heather Robb | ... | Heather | |
| Darryl Nau | ... | Random Guy | |
| Brenda Cooney | ... | Nurse | |
| Danielle Noe | ... | Mother | |
| Mary B. McCann | ... | Elaine Cross | |
| John Speredakos | ... | Ted Stephen | |
| Lena Dunham | ... | 911 Operator | |
| Christina Sciongay | ... | Student | |
| Kamen Velkovsky | ... | Demon |
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Rated R for some bloody violence.
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95 min
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USA:R (certificate #45576)
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Samantha is holding the knife near the bottom of the stairs, she says, "Mrs. Ulman?" referring to Mr. Ulman's mother-in-law. Her last name would most likely not be the same as her son-in-law's last name.
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The House of the Devil is a fastidiously detailed, pitch-perfect homage to 80's horror, that adheres to genre conventions while at the same time transcending them. Director Ti West understands what makes horror films work, that the horror is always more exciting when you don't know when to expect it. Jocelin Donahue plays Samantha, typical college-girl hoping to get a place of her own but without the cash to do so. She accepts a babysitting job that promises to pay well, and is then left in a creepy house in the middle of nowhere. Borrowing a page from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (and others) playbook, the been there, done that story is absolutely the point, complete with opening statistics promising a true story. Horror doesn't need to be complicated, just well executed. West builds dread and terror like a pro, understanding the classic Hitchcock sensibility that people fear what they don't see, and what they don't know (Lovecraft said so as well). In the face of torture porn and slasher flicks, where the only horror is the gore and the murder (and unnecessary soundtrack spikes), it is quite unsettling to be subjected to a thrill ride like this one.