The Curse of Hobbes House

I must admit that I was lured in by this 2020 movie's cover/poster. Sure, I hadn't even heard about the movie prior to sitting down to watch it. But the cover/poster had an appeal to it, and since it was a new horror movie that I hadn't already seen, of course I gave it a chance.

And while I managed to sit through the entire movie, right up to the disappointing ending, I have to admit that I was far from being anything even remotely close to entertained by the storyline told in "The Curse of Hobbes House".

The storyline and plot, as written by Wolf-Peter Arand and Juliane Block, just didn't offer anything interesting really. Everything in the movie had been done in other older movies, and done to a far better and more satisfactory result, I might add. So that left "The Curse of Hobbes House" as rather boring and uneventful movie.

The acting in the movie was adequate, although you shouldn't go about hoping for some grand Shakespearian performances here, as the script and dialogue just doesn't have that value to it.

For a horror movie then "The Curse of Hobbes House" was just unfathomably devoid of anything remotely scary. And truth be told, then fast, agile and nimble zombies with glowing blue light orbs for eyes just didn't cut it. It was more laughable than it was scary. It most certainly didn't do the trick for me.

While I managed to endure the movie to the bitter end, this is without the shadow of a doubt not a movie that I will ever return to watch again. Nor is it a movie that I can recommend that you spend your time, money or effort on.

My rating of "The Curse of Hobbes House" settles on a generous three out of ten stars.

Everything about this movie was slow. Great premise, probably sounded good on paper, but execution missed the mark. Main lead female was at last likable, for me. The white guy played his part of racist prick well, making you hope he dies. Other female I kept forgetting she was there. If you need a nap, turn this on.

The tagline to this film is "Don't wake the dead." Well, I want to know who did? I'm going to kick their ass. I don't like these zombies. I don't like these actors. I don't like green eggs and ham.

Ridiculous dialogues. The characters didn't develop anything during the movie. The characters were incapable of living and who were horribly written. They were obnoxious and illogical to the point that I was rooting for the enemy to kill them as soon as possible. The whole thing was so ridiculous. There isn't a normal living person in the world who starts arguing with another about ridiculously unimportant things, when their life is obviously in serious danger because they've already seen someone die. In this film, however, the Darwin Award-winning characters did not get to the point of utilizing the survival instinct. They didn't even look scared. They didn't care about it all. They couldn't solve any problem on their own. In fact. The only viable character was constantly looked down upon and backstabbed. Then they were surprised that there was no one among them who had any ability to get them out of the situation. My favorite is how many times they walked very slowly outside in the dark forest and argued with each other over nothing like hysterical teenagers. They knew the enemy was there, but somehow they didn't perceive it.

The enemies looked ridiculous, not scary. The film was made in 2020, compared to that, even with a quarter of the budget, a film could have been made seven times better. Congratulations on that.

That i was extremely tired and slumbering in and out of the green gables each time the living dead came screaming... so my review may have some flaws due to that.thats the hindside of numerous films watched in a row..

its a zombie movie instead of ''ghosts'' as you may expect from a british production. the story may bait some nostalgics, cause it aint bad, the narrative makes sense, and the acting aint too awful.

i bet there will be made a number 2 and 3 and 4 because its an ancestral guardianship of the manor that will doom generations to come. is it a film worth seeing, well as a sleep killer i can recommend , the acting aint more than average, and 95 % of the playtime is in darkness, so sit in a dark room when viewed. the grumpy old man did find this as a positive gain of english moviemaking on low budget, and therefore a small recommend