The House

2021 [GERMAN]

Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller

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IMDb Rating 5.3/10 10 914 914

technology revolution video surveillance press freedom privacy

Plot summary

A married couple retreats to a luxury, high-tech, fully automated house on a remote island. The house AI system goes rogue and turns against them.

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29.97 fps
1 hr 28 min
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German 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
29.97 fps
1 hr 28 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jordondave-28085 4 / 10

Familiar ground and idea done better on older films.

(2021) The House/ Das Haus (In German with English subtitles) SCIENCE FICTION POLITICAL THRILLERAdapted from the short story by Dirk Kurbjuweit, co-written and directed by Rick Ostermann that has husband, Johann Hellström (Tobias Moretti) and his wife, Lucia Hellström (Valery Tscheplanowa) just arriving to their home located at an isolated island, And what is unique about the home is that it does things by command, simply by talking to it, in the same tradition as HAL from "2001: A Space Odyssey". In the midst of all of this is some militia group clashing with the gov't in regarding of a terrorist act. And it is presumed that it was a young couple by the names of Layla (Lisa Vicari) and her boyfriend, Alex (Max von der Groeben) who committed the act, except that by the time they arrive they denied they even did any such thing.A little of "Demon Seed", "2001 A Space Odyssey" and "Forbidden Planet" with no new surprises.
Reviewed by sddavis63 6 / 10

When Sci-Fi Meets Politics

"The house is creepy," was Lucia's comment to her husband. She was convinced that the house was out to get her. The house actually was creepy. It was an AI controlled house that Johann had built. He explained to Lucia that the house didn't dislike her - it just knew him better and it would get to know her. That's all in the first few scenes and so you think that you're being set up for a sci-fi/thriller kind of movie about a smart house gone mad. But that's really not the point of the movie at all. The house is just a backdrop to what turns out to be more of a political thriller instead.It's set in Germany in the not too distant future (2029) - which gives this a sense of immediacy and, therefore, of credibility. (It's also a German movie - I watched a version with German audio and English subtitles.) Germany has been moving to the right and a far right group is expected to win an upcoming election. But there already seems to be a kind of neo-fascist state developing. Dissent isn't tolerated. Johann has lost his job as a writer for being critical of the government. Lucia is a lawyer who's defended dissidents. They're both potential targets. This smart house (on an isolated island) is their refuge. But is it a place of refuge or danger?The weaving of the AI storyline with the political is interesting because it gives the movie two current and very real fears to use as a hook - the fear of AI gone wild and the fear of the rise of the far right, which does seem to be happening throughout the western world. Having these combined into a single movie says to me that this should have been better than it turned out to be. The house was a backdrop more than anything - remembered mostly for its camera (a black dot surrounded by red that to me had a very "1984" Big Brother feel to it.) And while I understood the political warning of the film I would have liked more of a depiction of what kind of society was developing in Germany. Instead, the setting of the movie was almost completely the house, except for an opening scene in Johann's workplace. A look at the outside to get a clearer picture of what was going on would have been appreciated.The movie is lacking in colour (almost everything except the red eye of the camera) seems to be white or grey - deliberately I'm sure giving the impression of a sterile and bland and passionless society. And, really, that's my feeling about the movie as a whole. It's not bad, but it had the potential to be more than that. (6/10)
Reviewed by targa9 2 / 10

Tedious and scattered

Besides the amateurish dubbing (which we could not disable, but which I can forgive), I felt the writing and direction of this movie was dull as dishwater. First, this couple goes to a hi-tech house on an island, set in the future. The woman seems oversexed, and appears naked a lot, while the man always has the stony look of annoyance and disgust about him--no warmth, smile, or other emotions.Anyway, they get to this "smart house", and it does a few things at first which hint that something is a bit off. This is intriguing.However, the couple then start making love (standing up) and on the walls flash pictures and videos of naked women and pornographic scenes. What? The wife seems a bit disgusted and tells the house to turn it off. The husband seems unperturbed. Is this normal? It was just weird with no explanation.Then we learn the husband is some journalist who has exposed the paramilitary tactics of the city police, and for his efforts, is suspended (or fired?) from his job. The wife seems to work in the legal system, and keeps referencing "Layla", who is a resistance fighter who perhaps took part in a terrorist plot, attacking the police. The husband feels distraught, thinking his expose article led to innocent deaths. The "house" leads him to find a fully automatic weapon in the basement, and finds out the wife brought it there for safekeeping or something, if Layla needs it? He confronts the wife with it, who eventually apologizes.The husband asks the house to play back video on the wall the wife was looking at before she went to bed, one of which is sex with the husband's boss. He runs out in the woods as if he's been hit in the gut. Again, the husband confronts this secretive slut of a wife, who basically puts the blame on him for divulging one of her legal cases to his boss, who blackmails the wife into having sex with him to avoid publicizing her case.There seems to be something wrong with the house--it does not "like me" she says, and the husband reassures her the system cannot be hacked, and they're going to call out an expert.Then there are more scenes of them sitting down, gloomy, talking about the story, the terrorist incident by resistance fighters against the police, the technical issues with the house. Lots of dead, dull scenes with dreary chit-chat about some political event we cannot even see, as the husband takes his kayak into the water.We finished about half of the movie, but it seemed too scattered. I thought I was going to watch a movie about a smart house going bad, or even having a mind of its own. It apparently does, but not against the owners, really. Nothing really exciting or interesting happens, and the atmosphere seems drab, cloudy, gray and dreary the entire time. The expression on the husband's face is monochromatic and without variance. The wife just stares at him, wondering if he wants to sleep with her or to sing the praises of Layla, her resistance fighter friend.Smart house gone bad? Infidelity? Preoccupation with some political event that happened they don't even show us? Naked wife swimming, showering or throwing her body onto his?The movie seemed like a dull and dreary mess, so we turned it off. It was tedious and unappealing in almost all respects--the actors, the dialog, the entire writing and boring plot (plot apparently was about the resistance fighters coming to the place with guns and the house protects the owners or something).
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