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     Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 188.146.61.3 |
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/7474005/The-House-of-the-Dev il-review.html | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Philip French is pretty favourable towards it too, Frank. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 188.146.118.6 |
Ramsey - have you not seen it yet? | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.232.44 |
...aaaaah yes! I remember seeing trailers for this a while back! I wonder why it's taken so long to be released?... (though it had an extremely limited U.S. run)... Will be looking for this on dvd. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
It isn't here yet, Frank. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 188.146.23.15 |
Ramsey - jumping ahead of myself. Personally, I can't wait to see it. | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 65.110.174.71 |
It's quite good. While there's a glut of modern filmmakers trying to recapture the "heyday" of late-'70s/early-'80s Horror, House of the Devil is one of the few films that gets it right. | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 98.220.97.79 |
(Minor spoilers) It's set in the mid-80s, but the feel is pure 70s. A pretty good movie, all told, and made with considerable care. Clearly the director understands Hitchcock's rules for suspense. It's a pity, however, that the filmmakers so cunningly subverted my expectations only to deliver me to the stalwart 70s cliches of hooded robes and crimson pentagrams. Better than an episode of KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER, but only just. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.131.109.189 |
It's available at my local market, sealed, new and not a pirate, for £3. In fact I've seen so many recent dvd and box set telly things there lately I'm suspecting local chavs are nicking them from the nearby asda and selling them to him...  The remark there of 'it's quite good' made me rush to buy it. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
I loved the first hour, the devily stuff went astray, but it was saved by a killer ending. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.248.101 |
Sigh. Great ambience, great 'look' and 'sound', pity about the storytelling. It was like the episode of Emmerdale where Jack Sugden was waiting to hear about a tractor sale at the beginning then spent twenty five minutes making and eating a sandwich on his own, then going off to go to the market at the very end only to find his jeep had had a puncture and he couldn't. It was actually exactly as exciting as that, if not a teensy bit less. |