There's Someone Inside Your House

If you have read the book, DO NOT WATCH! This movie was utterly disappointing and NOTHING like the book. I wish I could give it a negative rating. All I can say is that this is STRAIGHT AND UTTER TRASH.

The latest entry in the long list of disposable films in Netflix canon, There's Someone Inside Your House is a run-of-the-mill slasher featuring characters one never grows to care about, motivations & purpose that have no footing, and killings that are delightfully grisly & gleeful. The film starts on a promising note but the interest in the premise fizzles out just as quick.

Directed by Patrick Brice (Creep & Creep 2), the script suffers from a myriad of issues, for its characters are poorly sketched, the drama involving them is bland throughout and dialogues are terrible. The narrative borrows elements from other classics of the genre(s) yet fails to do anything productive with that. The story just doesn't have the required emotional weight to it.

Not only is it apparent that Brice didn't write the film but it is also unlikely that he bothered to employ his cinematic skillset on this straightforward teen slasher offering. It hardly reeks of a foreboding atmosphere, the tension & suspense leaves the room just as soon as the build-up, the teen drama is never for once compelling, and the performances from its cast is also meh.

Overall, There's Someone Inside Your House not only fails to bring anything new or refreshing to the genre but is also lacking the goods to deliver a fun, thrilling & entertaining delight. All it has got going for it are a few graphic kills but that's simply not enough to steer the story past the finish line when there is no one to root for and the shortcomings are so glaring. All in all, a forgettable fare.

Disappointed. The first 25/30 minutes are good and I thought this would be something cool and a good slasher. Unfortunately, from there it only gets worse.

The killer reveal was a bit obvious - well, at least I found out very early and I'm not usually the guy who can see plot twists coming - and I can't even understand the reasons for some victims. It doesn't make much sense even if it was obvious. The last act seems incredibly rushed with no tension at all and some characters are never developed at all.

Good acting in general, good final girl, cool masks and some interesting deaths save this from being really bad, but it's not enough to make this a good film.

It's a decent High School horror, where someone is printing 3D masks of their victims and revealing their dark secrets through their death. But the title doesn't fit what happens...at all.

I have to be honest, I really did enjoy the first fifteen or so minutes of this film, the premise was interesting, some of the scenes quite chilling. Sadly once the film gets into its stride, it falls flat on its face, they did not capitalise on any of the ideas, the mask concept was good, but somehow it was just lost in translation.

The acting wasn't bad, some performances were definitely better than others.

Visually pretty good also, it looked good, that wasn't the issue, the pacing was, for a horror slasher it was very boring at its core.

The ending was too abrupt, it had no tension, no build up, the reveal was pretty obvious, but came about in a haphazard manner.

It's no Scream, it's on par with some lesser slasher movies, watchable as long as your expectations are pretty low. 5/10.