HOUSE OF THE DEVIL

Sweet, good girl Samantha (Jocelin Donahue) is an independent college student seeking a job. She is eager to get a job to pay off a rent deposit to an apartment she is interested in. She finds a babysitting job ad in her college campus. She calls the number and gets the job right away (sounds to good to be true). Her friend Megan (Greta Gerwig) tells her that it sounds too weird. Megan drives Samantha over to the house (an old Victorian mansion) that is located next to a cemetery. The girls are received by Mr. Ullman (a spooky Tom Noonan). Mr. Ullman explains to Samantha that is not really a babysitting job but to watch over an elderly woman. At first Samantha feels puzzled, then after some money talk hustling with Mr. Ullman, he agrees in giving her four hundred dollars.

Samantha explains to Megan about the situation, Megan runs out upset. Drives back home. On the way home by the cemetery she meets her sad demise by a killer Victor Ullman (A.J. Bowen)... For forty minutes we are following Samantha around the house, she orders pizza, she snoops around, dances around with her little cassette walkman, watches television. Her pizza arrives, she takes a bite and the slice has been poisoned. The action begins, the black Lunar Eclipse is above the clouds, the cloaked satanic cult leaders Mr. Ullman, Mrs. Ullman (Mary Woronov) and Victor Ullman come out of hiding and they are chasing Samantha, as she is weak, and the devil (One Scary son of a bitch) wants to drink her virginal blood. But Samantha battles it out with weakness and all…

HOUSE OF THE DEVIL is like an early 80’s television horror movie of the week but with a blood bath. House of the Devil is a simple horror which starts at a slow pace, then BANG - many horror films in the seventies and eighties always had the slow suspenseful pace.

Ti West did a great job throwing us into a time machine and taking us to the eighties, EVERYTHING IN THIS FILM IS 1980 - COSTUMES, ART DIRECTION, HAIR STYLES, the satanic storyline, the film credits, and the whole atmosphere. This is ten times better than the tired wanna-be PARANORMAL ACTIVITY and GRACE.

THREE STARS - GOOD OLE 80’s RETRO HORROR CREEPY FUN

Starring Jocelin Donahue, Greta Gerwig, John Speredakos, Mary Woronov, Dee Wallace Stone, Danielle Noe, Aj Bowen, Tom Noonan.
Written, Directed and Edited by Ti West
Running Time 93 Minutes Rated R