In a Stranger's House

I find myself very unbiased in my reviews of movie, and as I am a fan of the found footage genre I thought I would give this a try. BIG MISTAKE !!! I could bore you with the ins and outs of this one, but as per the title, literally nothing happens. I made it through to 1 hour 14 minutes, and with very little time left, I just switched it off. I am usually the one to see things through, but, nah, not with this one. Watch it, make your own mind up, and if you get through to the end, you are a better person than me.

This movie was about as boring as a movie can get. I would not classify this as anything near a horror movie, maybe as a horrible movie, though. Wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone.

It's pretty fun of the mill. Found footage from a likeable Youtuber who goes missing. There's scary dolls, something in the attic, animals that see things. Blah blah. It isn't awful though, it's just been done so many times. The main actor is good. I suspect he did it all himself.

Apparently not. Guy house-sits for some random woman, and for some reason he documents the experience. Inevitably some weird stuff takes place, though the emphasis is on 'some'.

The biggest problem with this film is the extensive amount of filler. Other micro-budget found footage films like Leaving D.C make the most of every minute, either with events that gradually move the plot along, or exposition that provides the protagonist with a personality. With A Stranger's Home every scene feels dragged out, even the good one. Even that scene loses its impact when the main character laughs it off the next day rather than call the police and drive miles away.

I may well have missed the explanation for the dodgy plot, due to the dialogue being so hard to hear, but given how the story progresses it makes absolutely no sense to give him chance after chance to get scared and run off.

It's not all bad. I liked the actor, and he has a very nice living room. I enjoyed that one scene around the middle point of the film, even if it didn't seem to have any real relevance to anything, and for a micro-budget project it's a reasonable little yarn.

I gave this a 3 because it's a found footage film, and you kind of have to know what you're getting yourself into with one of these. The overall story isn't bad, but it's been done too many times. What really would have saved this film is if it was MUCH, MUCH shorter - this should have been a 10 to 15 minute short film. It's like someone said, "Hey, put this on and go wait for me in the attic. I'll be up in about an hour and a half to film your part, then we'll go get something to eat and be home by midnight" The only reason Ii made it through this film was because I was doing something else while watching it - other than the last few minutes, you won't miss anything if you look away.