The Curse of Hobbes House

The animation style at the beginning was really cool to tell the myth behind the curse of the house. It was a really cool way to fill the watches in on the background of the house.

The CGI was terrible. The acting was okay, but the scripting could have been better. The story behind everything was pretty cool overall. I think this film is slightly better than average. I enjoyed watching it, but I've seen much better, and I've seen much worse too.

Ancestral home comes with "guardians" a supernatural curse. Long distant half-sisters that are conflicted come to the home for the reading of the will. Lackluster film goes on with rather boring characters that hold true to contrived plot lines. Simplistic solution only adds to the dullness of the film. Undone by the emptiness of story leaving too much lacking for any interest.

I must admit that I was lured in by this 2020 movie's cover/poster. Sure, I hadn't even heard about the movie prior to sitting down to watch it. But the cover/poster had an appeal to it, and since it was a new horror movie that I hadn't already seen, of course I gave it a chance.

And while I managed to sit through the entire movie, right up to the disappointing ending, I have to admit that I was far from being anything even remotely close to entertained by the storyline told in "The Curse of Hobbes House".

The storyline and plot, as written by Wolf-Peter Arand and Juliane Block, just didn't offer anything interesting really. Everything in the movie had been done in other older movies, and done to a far better and more satisfactory result, I might add. So that left "The Curse of Hobbes House" as rather boring and uneventful movie.

The acting in the movie was adequate, although you shouldn't go about hoping for some grand Shakespearian performances here, as the script and dialogue just doesn't have that value to it.

For a horror movie then "The Curse of Hobbes House" was just unfathomably devoid of anything remotely scary. And truth be told, then fast, agile and nimble zombies with glowing blue light orbs for eyes just didn't cut it. It was more laughable than it was scary. It most certainly didn't do the trick for me.

While I managed to endure the movie to the bitter end, this is without the shadow of a doubt not a movie that I will ever return to watch again. Nor is it a movie that I can recommend that you spend your time, money or effort on.

My rating of "The Curse of Hobbes House" settles on a generous three out of ten stars.

The Guardians, they come for the descendants of the Evil Tyrant King. The curse is strong!!!!

Okay bad story. Acting okay. Nothing gory really except one shotgunned head. Just not very good. 3/10.

Ridiculous dialogues. The characters didn't develop anything during the movie. The characters were incapable of living and who were horribly written. They were obnoxious and illogical to the point that I was rooting for the enemy to kill them as soon as possible. The whole thing was so ridiculous. There isn't a normal living person in the world who starts arguing with another about ridiculously unimportant things, when their life is obviously in serious danger because they've already seen someone die. In this film, however, the Darwin Award-winning characters did not get to the point of utilizing the survival instinct. They didn't even look scared. They didn't care about it all. They couldn't solve any problem on their own. In fact. The only viable character was constantly looked down upon and backstabbed. Then they were surprised that there was no one among them who had any ability to get them out of the situation. My favorite is how many times they walked very slowly outside in the dark forest and argued with each other over nothing like hysterical teenagers. They knew the enemy was there, but somehow they didn't perceive it.

The enemies looked ridiculous, not scary. The film was made in 2020, compared to that, even with a quarter of the budget, a film could have been made seven times better. Congratulations on that.