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This is for the film from 2009 sorry, I had to refresh myself from 2009 called the house of the devil is a Tai West film and it Is currently streaming on the shutter horror streaming service with Joe Bob Briggs giving it his treatment So I would recommend it recommend checking out that way just saying but it's it's a good film in general Okay, so gonna jump right into this house of the devil music and the camera work both seem to be right for this for the 80s If people are watching this review and you don't know much about this film It's supposed to be set in the 80s They went to I won't say like great length but they went to some length to make it appear like it's 80s to give it a real 80s horror feel to it and For that reason there's slower pacing to the film which I'm actually fine with because it keeps the tension up But I just think they did in general like a pretty solid a pretty solid job of making it feel 80s and me I'm a big nerd when it comes to 80s nostalgia. I'm When I was watching season 3 of stranger things I was just geeking out so hard on the 80s nostalgia stuff. It just makes me very very happy Love the 80s. So yeah But they did a really good job It has a more leisure pace Just know that if you haven't seen the movie and you want to go into it It's it's slow things built slowly. Although like I said, I feel like it keeps tension in doing that now It could end up leading to a lot of people not really digging the movie because I know there are people who are just more used to You know current the current way that American film does it which is more fast-paced keep it moving keep it going Let's keep people interested as opposed to you know If you take your time you can have things pay off in the end and then that's more of what this film is is a take your time Take it slow slowly unfold the story and then at the end boom Here's your payoff and it works in my opinion And oh I actually wrote myself a note about the whole like keeping the tension up with the slow pace It really does make you feel at certain points that anything could happen So you're kind of like a little on the edge of your seat where you're just kind of like And something could happen here and something could happen here and it and Obviously it doesn't happen at all the points where things could happen. So it just keeps you guessing which is really fun It keeps you more engaged in my opinion It's always great to see D Wallace. She has a very very small part in this but D Wallace does show up She's like a realtor. I Just I just have a really soft spot in my heart for D Wallace because a I think she's an amazing actress I love that she's still working because she's such an icon and be I Um, I've met her before I met her at a convention a bunch of years ago and she is such a sweet Sweet awesome person. She's so genuine so wonderful and also I love the howling I love the howling and she is in that The best part of this film Performance wise the best part of this film is Tom Noonan in his role He choose scenery like nobody's business in this film I just want more of his character after seeing this movie I'm just like I want a whole movie with Tom Noonan and the character from this film Tom Noonan as of this dude He does he does such an amazing job. He's awesome. I love that guy's acting I don't think he's been in enough in my opinion and any time I hear the name Tom Noonan Associated with a film. I'm like, I'm gonna see that. I will definitely see that Although acting in general everyone did a good job I didn't think there were any portions where I was like ooh that acting is rough It was all at least good, but Tom Noonan in particular really stands out on this There's a weird echo with the audio in this film, which is one thing that really detracts from it. I don't know why Yeah, I don't know why it's just this weird thing it happens from time to time It's not super consistent. It's just randomly. There'd be like this odd echo noise and I'm like What is going on there? This was a mumblecore film. I don't know if people are familiar with what mumblecore is. It's kind of more like kind of like improv-y aimless dialogue Ty West and and a bunch of his buddies. They're the ones who kind of put mumblecore on the map. I feel like and Sometimes it works really well because it makes it feel more realistic. Sometimes it doesn't work very well because Dialogue then starts to feel a little aimless and you're just kind of like wait. What's the point? Like what are we doing here? Also it can kind of lead to people bringing their voice down more and Making a little bit hard for that to for the audience members to like hear what's being said so mumblecore maybe a half-and-half good bad This film portrays babysitting like I would think it is Being bored and walking around people's houses poking around basically just looking at their photos You know like what are these people into? How do they like their decor? Where are they keeping things in their house? Not like in a rant ransacking their house type way But like that's what happens in this film is this babysitter's just going around. It's kind of like What are they doing in this room and oh, well, that's a that's an interesting vase right there And you know stuff like that So that's how I would assume babysitting was especially back in the 80s because there wasn't a ton of stuff You could do you couldn't just sit on your phone and just play games while the kids run around or sleep or whatever There's a good reveal of things going wrong To only the audience in this film and that's one of the things I really like when it happens in film where it's this kind of signal just to the audience saying Shh The characters don't know about this, but things are going very badly or about to go very badly Just so you know watch for it And I like that type of thing Because it makes you fear more for the characters instead of experiencing things exactly with them Which you know at times that can really work in film too But other times like with a film like this where it is a slower pace It is great when you get that little wink of saying things are off things are wrong Something's about to happen because it makes you more like oh, no, don't do that. Oh, no, no, no, don't do that You know so I just like that and then the payoff This is the last thing I have written down the payoff in this film is very good The very end portion for as slow as the beginning of this film Well, not the beginning for as slow as the majority of this film is the last like 15 minutes maybe that's an estimate the last about 15 minutes are pretty crazy and Really engaging and really well done in my opinion and I felt very satisfied with this film once it everything was said and done It's very cool and atmospheric. I really like this film I don't think it's like the most amazing film I've seen but for what it is and for it being like relatively low budget It was it was well pulled off and I enjoyed it and this is a film I would go back to and watch again Maybe that was the third time I've seen the film. I think about the third time Good stuff. So my five-star scale with half stars in play What would I say? I Think I could give it a four-star. I don't it's definitely not a three and a half But I definitely can't give a four and a half It's a solid four-star film if anyone's out there watching this review and you have not seen the house of the devil Definitely check out the house of the devil I think it's probably the best film that Ty West has done. I've actually seen a bunch of his films Yeah, this one in my opinion is his best film. I've seen the in keepers That's a little too slow for me He didn't have the right formula in my opinion for the pacing to work with that film the sacrament is I Mean kind of a little found footage E which kind of takes me a little bit out of it And it's it's kind of like a a ripoff of the Jim Jones situation So if you know much about that it's not that engaging of a film because you already know it all You know and I'm into like true crime stuff. So I know all that stuff. I know a lot of stuff very dark but anyway Cool, but yeah, the house of the devil definitely check it out four stars for me and Yeah, thanks for checking out this review. Oh, I feel like I need to tell you Please hit the subscribe for my channel can really help me out a lot It can encourage me a lot to keep doing more and more of these put some comments down there Have you seen this film? What are your thoughts on it and give me a thumbs up if you want to? Although that one doesn't matter as much and spread the word if you if you know some people who might like my channel might like Some of the videos I'm putting out. I appreciate you telling them about that. So anyway, thanks for checking this out I really appreciate it and until next time keep it brutal