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With Ti West's "X" and "Pearl" hitting the big screen we decided to go back to revisit his first big breakout film "The House of the Devil", the bone-chilling horror film that blends mystery and terror during the 1980's
THE MOST WTF MOVIE OF 2009!
The House of the Devil is a 2009 American horror film written, directed, and edited by Ti West, starring Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, Greta Gerwig, A. J. Bowen, and Dee Wallace.
The plot concerns a young college student who is hired as a babysitter at an isolated house and is soon caught up in bizarre and dangerous events as she fights for her life.
The film combines elements of both the slasher film and haunted house subgenres while using the "satanic panic" of the 1980s as a central plot element. The film pays homage to horror films of the 1970s and 1980s, recreating the style of films of that era using filming techniques and similar technology to what was used then. The film's opening text claims that it is based upon true events, a technique used in some horror films, such as The Amityville Horror and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
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The film received a score of 87% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 98 reviews; the site's consensus states that "Though its underlying themes are familiar, House of the Devil effectively sheds the loud and gory cliches of contemporary horror to deliver a tense, slowly building throwback to the fright flicks of decades past."[14] It also received an aggregate score of 73 on Metacritic, based on 18 critic ratings, indicating "Generally favorable reviews."
Written & Directed by Ti West
Produced by Ti West
Jacob Jaffke
Kevin Turen
Harrison Kreiss
Starring :
Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, Greta Gerwig, A. J. Bowen, and Dee Wallace
Cinematography by Eliot Rockett
Edited by Ti West
Production company : Constructovision, RingTheJing Entertainment, Glass Eye Pix, Mad Solar Productions, Bron Studios
Distributed by MPI Media Group
Release date
April 25, 2009 (Tribeca)
October 30, 2009 (United States)
With Ti West's "X" and "Pearl" hitting the big screen we decided to go back to revisit his first big breakout film "The House of the Devil", the bone-chilling horror film that blends mystery and terror during the 1980's
THE MOST WTF MOVIE OF 2009!
The House of the Devil is a 2009 American horror film written, directed, and edited by Ti West, starring Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, Greta Gerwig, A. J. Bowen, and Dee Wallace.
The plot concerns a young college student who is hired as a babysitter at an isolated house and is soon caught up in bizarre and dangerous events as she fights for her life.
The film combines elements of both the slasher film and haunted house subgenres while using the "satanic panic" of the 1980s as a central plot element. The film pays homage to horror films of the 1970s and 1980s, recreating the style of films of that era using filming techniques and similar technology to what was used then. The film's opening text claims that it is based upon true events, a technique used in some horror films, such as The Amityville Horror and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
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#TheHouseOfTheDevil #HouseOfTheDevilExplained #HouseoftheDevilEndingExplained
The film received a score of 87% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 98 reviews; the site's consensus states that "Though its underlying themes are familiar, House of the Devil effectively sheds the loud and gory cliches of contemporary horror to deliver a tense, slowly building throwback to the fright flicks of decades past."[14] It also received an aggregate score of 73 on Metacritic, based on 18 critic ratings, indicating "Generally favorable reviews."
Written & Directed by Ti West
Produced by Ti West
Jacob Jaffke
Kevin Turen
Harrison Kreiss
Starring :
Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, Greta Gerwig, A. J. Bowen, and Dee Wallace
Cinematography by Eliot Rockett
Edited by Ti West
Production company : Constructovision, RingTheJing Entertainment, Glass Eye Pix, Mad Solar Productions, Bron Studios
Distributed by MPI Media Group
Release date
April 25, 2009 (Tribeca)
October 30, 2009 (United States)
