The House of the Devil

2009

Action / Horror / Mystery

46
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 63% · 104 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 63% · 50K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 55138 55.1K

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Plot summary

A young college student who’s struggling financially takes a strange babysitting job which coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret, putting her life in mortal danger.

Director

Ti West Photo
Ti West

Top cast

Mary B. McCann Photo
Mary B. McCann as Elaine Cross
AJ Bowen Photo
AJ Bowen as Victor Ulman
Ti West Photo
Ti West as Favorite Teacher
Tom Noonan Photo
Tom Noonan as Mr. Ulman
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
804.03 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 11
1.52 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 35

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by hitchcockthelegend 7 / 10

This one night changes everything for me.

Ti West seems destined to be one of those horror film directors who forever will polarise opinions. For those of us who love the slow burn approach and admire his evident adoration of retro horror, then he hits the mark. Reference The House of the Devil and latterly The Innkeepers. If those two things don't strike a chord with you then it's very likely that The House of the Devil will drive you nuts - but not in a good way.Plot is simple, Jocelin Donahue plays student Samantha Hughes, who has found the ideal apartment to live in, but needs funds to pay the deposit. Sooooo, answering a flyer advertising for a babysitter, she winds up at some spooky house out in the sticks, where the job isn't exactly what was as expected, and, well the night isn't as expected either...It's her own fault really, if you ring the bell at a spooky isolated house and Tom Noonan answers the door, well then you should know better than not to run away! But I digress. West's film taps into the satanic panic that gripped certain parts of the states in the 70s and 80s, set in the early 80s the film is a vibrant homage to that era, with a real sense of time and place pulsing away as Samantha is set up for a night of god knows what.The house is a splendid old creaker and within it Samantha always looks to be one cat's whisker away from being in peril. West doesn't go for continuous boo-jump scares, he lets us and Samantha use our imaginations to unnerve all parties. The screw is slowly turned until hell comes to the party, moving things swiftly to a frenetic finale that closes with a final denouement that old nick himself would approve of.Dee Wallace Stone does a cameo to add more to the retro flavours, while Noonan and Donahue are superb. It's a film that is patient and asks you for your patience, so those of that ilk, and retro horror hounds too, will love it. Others, not so! 7/10
Reviewed by joannejohnson-21762 6 / 10

The set up is insanely long

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