House of Evil

I endured through this movie hoping it would improve . I like the 70s vibe, location, and the concept but the script is poor. You can feel the actors trying to make it better which only results in overacting. Overall the production is poor and tries too hard to be scary throwing every horror cliche at it leaving it feeling contrived. Yes, I know it's not real but what makes a good horror movie is one that draws you into its story. This one did not.

Photographer John and his fine artist good lady move to a big house in the country. They have a dog, and he has a dark room. Do they still use dark rooms in 2017? The house is atmospheric, creepy, and she sees a ghost. He is behaving strangely. Is it the house, or is it one of them? It's the house; with some reluctance the local clergyman tells her what happened to the previous occupants. By this time she is pregnant. At some point we fast forward seven months.

What will happen? Obviously bad things. The ending is probably not what you would have thought, but with such a minimal plot, confusion of dream sequences with reality, and not much else, this film deserves the bad reviews it has received. The acting isn't that bad, but there really is no substance to it.

I'm not sure what it was about this movie. I watched it. From beginning to End. And I really couldn't tell you what happened. The story was so....devoid of story. And by the time it ended, I didn't care anymore.

Lots of bad acting, a histerical actress and a funny (trying to be scary) face from the actor! I just don't understand, if you have a short budget you can still do it with actors natural hair, this was one of the things that more bothered me, those super fake wigs make it ridiculous!

This is straight up a reimagined version of Amityville Horror. The husband becomes obsessed with the house and becomes essentially possessed, no longer caring about his wife and their child. It's even set in the 70's, I mean c'mon. I think the creators actually really wanted to remake Amityville but after the Ryan Reynolds version did horribly they thought they could just changed a couple things, obviously out it Ina different house and no one would be the wiser. Vrry disappointed, it's proof once again that original horror stories are getting harder to come by. Even the great ones like "Insidious" and "The Conjuring" had something great and then sequeled it to oblivion. With Conjuring all I can say is that at least we got "The Nun" out of it, and if stops at the second movie then I will call that a win. But again this movie is just a rip off, and not even a good rip off. My recommendation is to just go and watch the original "Amityville Horror" and you'll what you thought you were going to get from this.