Home Sweet Home: Where Evil Lives

2023 [GERMAN]

Action / Horror / Thriller

2
IMDb Rating 4.7/10 10 369 369

haunted house pregnant woman

Plot summary

When pregnant Maria starts readying her fiancé’s family estate for bed and breakfast guests, something isn’t right; the power seems to be on the blink and strange noises become all too common. Determined to find the truth, Maria soon begins to realise that darker secrets than she could imagine are lurking in this house, and her soon-to-be-family’s past.

Director

Thomas Sieben Photo
Thomas Sieben

Top cast

Justus von Dohnányi Photo
Justus von Dohnányi as Wilhelm
David Kross Photo
David Kross as Viktor
Nilam Farooq Photo
Nilam Farooq as Maria
Sven Habermann Photo
Sven Habermann as Hauptmann
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
765.37 MB
1280*534
German 2.0
NR
Subtitles de  
25 fps
1 hr 23 min
Seeds 1
1.53 GB
1920*800
German 5.1
NR
Subtitles de  
25 fps
1 hr 23 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by syayar 6 / 10

Gets better each minute

The first 20-30 minutes have their difficulties, but once the different characters enter the stage, the pacing gets better and better. It's a classic story, like those short horror stories you read at night as a teenager. But the location has been used very cleverly, sound and visuals are absolutely fine and doing this as a oner (one-shot) was a good and well executed decision. Especially the nightmarish vision has been edited really really good. Nilam Farooq is a believeable scream queen, Justus v Dohnanyi again shows he can play villains and the rest of the cast does a fine job. Nice little film from Germany.
Reviewed by IMDbKeepsDeletingMyReviews 2 / 10

Incompetent and contrived with pointless one shot gimmick

Drinking vodka for 90 minutes straight would have caused me less brain rot than watching this fine film here.This contrived and pretty dumb story unfolds over what feels like an eternity, even though the runtime is less than 90 minutes - always a good sign for a quality film. Also, for some reason, someone decided to shoot this in one take, and although I give my compliments to the crew that probably had to work a lot for this to get it done, in terms of serving the story this deciscion makes no sense whatsoever. With conventional editing, this would have been a short film. Still a bad one, but at least it would have been over sooner.Oh, this plot. Too many times it's painfully obvious that some stupid things are only happening so the rest of the awful plot can happen. The dialogue is low-tier, the acting at times alright-ish, at times atrocious. The writing and directing are almost as bad as this director's other masterpiece PREY (Netflix), and yet he can continue to make his bad films. Why? How?The score is mostly a continuous drone that drowns every trivial thing in pseudo-ominous synth soup and oftentimes fails to serve any of the weak beats and cues, thus making everything even duller than it had to be - which is quite the achievement.The camera work is mostly appalling, both in operating and lighting. In important scenes, half the frame is basically unexposed. The shaky cam is strong here, and even worse than the BOURNE kind. It's just a camera stumbling around.Except for the protagonist who is a true nothing character (we just know that she's pregnant and her name, no joke), none of the other character's (all of which are even emptier than the protagonist) motivations make any sense.If anything, this film once again proves that German filmmaking is as bad as its cars are good.Skip this or watch it as a comedy, but get some booze first - you'll need it.
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