Home

It's no Insidious or The Conjuring, but this movie delivers! It starts off slow, and at first it's not clear where the movie is heading. Is it a ghost story? A possession story? Is there social commentary, and if so, is it something I'd like or not like? After the first half hour or so, amidst an atmosphere of gathering dread, things get rolling and the characters seem to be moving forward in adjusting to a difficult situation not of their choosing. Then, the story takes an abrupt turn this reviewer never saw coming!

The acting is generally good, as you might expect with veteran scream queen Heather Langenkamp on board. The lead, Kerry Knuppe, is a joy to watch. (Aaron the boyfriend, however, is somewhat underwhelming.)

Not showing Christianity in a bad light may not be everyone's cup of tea--which might explain why this movie currently has such a bad rating. If this is a requirement, don't bother. If it's not a problem, though, Home is definitely worth a look.

The East German Stasi guy on here screaming "Propaganda!" would also find The Exorcist offensive because of its reference to religion. Calm down buddy. This is a good movie. I think people are reading too much into it, but it scared the heck out of me. I like movies that don't overdo it with the scare tactics; they generally come off as cliche, and I can usually tell what's going to happen before it does. I liked the straightforwardness of this one, and the twist at the end took me completely by surprise. It was very unexpected. Worth watching!

Yesterday a Christian followed me to my Facebook page to let me know that I'd upset him by being critical of the church in one of my reviews. If you're reading this, best stop now.

Home is a horror starring Heather "Nightmare on Elm Street" Lagenkamp and mid 90's pop star Samantha Mumba. If you choose to watch the movie for them however then don't as they are not the stars here and are not present for the majority of the film. If you choose to watch the film because of the undead girl on the cover then again don't bother, that is on screen for literally about 1 second of the 90 minute duration.

It tells the story of a married lesbian couple and their daughters who move into a new reportedly haunted house. When they go away leaving the older daughter to babysit the younger things go terribly wrong.

Truth is the film got my interest early on, I like Lagenkamp and the movie was setting up be something interesting. Alas the film has a strong opening, a boring middle and a baffling weak finale.

The featured review at time of writing this refers to the film as propaganda. This term gets thrown around a lot on IMDB, generally when a movie involves themes the person doesn't like. Here the person claims that it is anti-gay and anti-secular and I can confidently say it really really isn't. How the person reached this conclusion I cannot get my head around, clearly he looked for something that just wasn't there.

Home could have been great but weak writing, lack of originality, a boring middle and terrible cgi at the end damaged it beyond repair.

The Good:

Heather Lagenkamp

The Bad:

Bad cgi

Dishonest cover

Head scratching finale

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

No sex before marriage doesn't apply if you're horny

It's 2018 and filmmakers still don't think the cross falling off the wall thing is a tad old

When frisky guys often play with dolls

This is one of the director's trademark, fundamentalist propaganda films pretending to be a horror film (though there isn't much in the way of horror, unless you count the horror of losing your money on this junk and realizing you've been duped). Filled with anti-gay and anti-secular propaganda -- anti-anything the director disagrees with, in other words. If a fundamentalist filmmaker is going to preach at you, they should at least have the honesty to tell you that first. This reminds me of that film The Life Zone, which was sold as a horror film but turned out to be an anti-abortion statement where the one woman who has an abortion ends up being tortured in hell. Fortunately, Stephen Colbert caught wind of that fraud and was able to warn audiences in time. Hopefully, I've warned a few people.

Well, there is no doubt about the fact that I sat down to watch the 2016 movie "Home" because it was a horror movie, and also because it had Heather Langenkamp on the cast list.

And now that I have just finished watching writers Jeff Lam and Frank Lin's movie, I must admit that this was not really an outstanding horror experience. Sure, the movie was watchable, but it just wasn't a particularly great horror movie. It was essentially way too generic in its storyline, and there wasn't really much of anything spooky happening. Sure, there were some events going on, but it was not sufficiently enough.

And the ending of the movie was just so bland that I bet even a guy in a coma would sit up and say "are you serious?" Yeah, that was just very, very predictable ending, and one that didn't really do justice to the movie.

Director Frank Lin was just playing it way too safe in the way that the movie's story was executed and brought to life on the screen; it was as if he had a 'How to Make a Horror Movie' manual, and was following it chronologically step by step. And that made for a very generic and predictable movie.

The acting in the movie was actually adequate, taking into consideration the severe limitations imposed by a flaccid storyline.

Visually then "Home" leaves much to be wanting for, because the movie is not heavy on the usage of special effects. Whatever little effects were there served their purposes well enough, but this wasn't effects that were bedazzling or will blow you away.

"Home" doesn't bring anything new to the haunted house genre, and that is a factor that definitely keeps the movie from getting up and out of the generic runt that it was trotting around in.

All in all, "Home" is watchable a single time, because it was just too bland and generic. And truth be told, the storyline is so weak that it collapses under its own weight and cannot support more than a single viewing.

My rating of the 2016 movie "Home" lands on a less than mediocre four out of ten stars. If you enjoy a properly scary horror movie, then there are far better and far more scary movies readily available on the horror market.