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The Houses October Built (2011)

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The Houses October Built

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7/10

Fun documentary that inspired the movie franchise.

Bobby Roe's fun 2014 found footage horror had five friends deciding to take an RV road trip to seek out and find the most extreme and scary Halloween attractions...they get more than they bargained for. The film was actually inspired by a documentary Roe made three years earlier with the same premise. He, Brandy Schaefer, Mikey Roe, Jeff Larson, and Zack Andrews all pile into an RV and seek out the scariest Halloween haunts they can find. The five friends take us through a tour of quite a few halloween haunts, focusing on Schaefer going inside, experiencing the haunts and then interviewing owners, employees and attendees. It's fun and as Roe pursues the notion that some haunts employ real deviates and use actual corpses in their exhibits, one can see where the 2014 film idea grew from. This leads to tracking down the elusive Blue Skeleton Inn haunt which closes this amusing documentary in theatrical fashion.

If you are a fan of the 2014 film, and it's 2017 sequel, this is actually a must see, to give you some nice background on how those film's came about. It is also a good way to get to know the real people behind the movie characters and some of the real haunts that made it into the films. It's also a fun look at Halloween haunts and the pursuit of the scariest way to spend Halloween. The documentary is currently found as an extra on the Houses October Built blu-ray, making the disc a real bargain, if you are a fan.
  • MonsterZeroNJ
  • Sep 24, 2020
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6/10

Umm...

Interesting premise but the found footage thing is not my fave genre. Brandy Schaefer looks like Casey Anthony. 😂
  • stevenroberts-53999
  • Jun 28, 2021
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4/10

I Think I'd Rather Watch the 2014 Version

This is very basic and dull. At best I can say that it makes you think about what people are doing - especially in large anonymous cities or backwoods rural boondocks. The first urban environment is scary because as long as you're under the radar in a place like L. A. or New York you could get away with weird stuff for weeks, months, even a couple of years before someone caught on. The other end of the spectrum are out-of-the-way "off grid" haunted house attractions that aren't supervised at all by any oversight and aren't on-line so you might as well be taking a risk walking into a total stranger's barn. They bring up issues like body parts and real dead bodies, as well as disturbed people hiding behind masks in the staff. It does make you think, but wouldn't apply to the average suburban haunted house. Otherwise this movie is dull.
  • thalassafischer
  • Oct 5, 2024
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1/10

Ugh

Ok look, I love found footage horrors and even low budget horrors but this, was just awful. I thought at first maybe it's a slow burn but it didn't ever go anywhere it was just boring.

I get what the film was trying to do, warning of going to off grid haunts and the dangers of the unknown but that ending was just so poor.

Considering who produced this I'm surprised this was so rubbish.

I'm glad I watched this on shudder because if I had rented or bought this I would be screaming for my money back. Super not worth it, avoid it if you can.

Hell house llc is an incredible movie you should check out!
  • emzee-cakes1990
  • Oct 6, 2024
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