House Hunting (2013)

This movie was very interesting i'll give it that, but when it comes down to the main plot it gets very confusing, then when you think you understand what's going on you just get another twist. So going by what I put together I am going to try to explain the holes in this story. From the "House Owner", the only way to leave is for one family to stay, but the daughter of one family was able to get out of the.., lets say "dimension", by walking away from the house backwards( She also sings a nursery rhyme about the house while doing so, but it was never discussed if you had to say it or not) after thinking I understood this story there was a few side stories going own with the families making you think this is happening for a reason.These stories though seem worthless when you try to put it all together once you get to the ending. There is a girl who has had her tongue cut off for unknown reasons, it is then known that she is from another family who was stuck in the house dimension just like the on-going family, yet the movie has you guessing she's a big part of the plot. The son in a family ran over a girl who was jogging being scared he left her for dead, later in the movie it is shown and pointed to the women who was ran over was somehow related to the "House Owner", and also the Father of a family bought the property of the house hinting that both families have done something wrong to the original owners of the house, and this was some ghostly revenge.All of that is thrown away from the fact that the girl with no tongue was just from a recent family who was stuck in the house, and towards the ending the daughter of a family is left alive and is found by another family who's the next victims of the haunted house putting her in the shoes of the girl with no tongue when she was found on the road, but this is the kicker, it is revealed that the "House Owner" was the one who cuts off the girl's tongue because in the last scene the daughter had her tongue cut off for the fact she can't tell the new victims what's happening.Taking all this in you realize it's just a cycle that happens to unlucky families looking for a new home making all the sub-plots basically filler and makes you angry for trying to put all of this together.Don't get me wrong it's a good movie, but there's just too many holes.

So, there are these two families who are desperately trying to escape from a spooky home in their car they set out to potentially buy, in tow with a mysterious girl they nearly ran over on the way, who's had her tongue cut out. They try to escape using the path they arrived from, but they just keep driving round in circles. Eventually, they run out of petrol, and are forced to shelter in the property. They think 'someone will come for them' but guess what... no-one does. They're stuck there for weeks, surviving on tins of cheap beef stew which mysteriously appear in the kitchen cupboard, while having to tolerate the obnoxious computerised voice-over of the guy who is selling the house. Not surprisingly, they start to crack up and physically harm each other, as well as see strange visions, including flashbacks of traumatic incidences from their respective pasts.And all while this was going on, all I could think was: "Wot, no phones?"You've got two teenage kids and four adults... who don't have a mobile between them when they go out. In 2013. Yea, right. They could have been included and made out that they couldn't be used because of dodgy reception, or even that the battery was dead, but nope... that was a stretch too far for the great minds who wrote it. You may think this is a minor point, but it is symbolic of the lack of attention to rest of the film, which is confusing when not dull, and when we do get to the blood'n'guts, as brief as possible. It is kind of funny to see cans of cheap slop emerge day in, day out (which sorta reminded me of the Tesco Value range) from nowhere and the people's reaction to having to eat this crap for such an extended period (I wouldn't have volunteered to clean the toilet), but that's a minor pleasure in what is a LLOONNGG haul.And yet AGAIN, they've changed the name of the film for the UK release (to The Wrong House) and given us a great DVD box front cover, which isn't indicative of the quality of the production contained within at all. Once again, don't be fooled. 4/10

I picked this up at Redbox when it looked like the best of what I hadn't already seen from there, and was pleasantly surprised. As many others have stated, the premise is old, people stuck in a place from which they inexplicably cannot escape, but the "twist" is new (at least to me). There are some plot holes, and one GIGANTIC hole in particular, but if you're able to do some suspension of belief, you'll enjoy the movie. The cover/promo picture is misleading and insinuates it's gory, but there's relatively little gore. The acting is decent and the DVD includes a "behind the scenes" special feature which I always enjoy.In short, if you're a fan of the genre and not sure what to watch, you'll probably like this movie.

You quickly realize from the opening scenes that you're in for a badly acted and predictable horror flick. The plot idea of being held captive in a house by a mysterious controlling force is kinda cool, but it soon gets old with bad direction and unrealistic acting. No real surprises, plenty of senseless dying, and several annoying clichés popping up that you'll soon recognize when you see it. On the positive side, if you enjoy this film, then lucky for you, there's no doubt a huge back log of films you have yet to discover in the same genre. Luckily when the movie finished, there was a re-run of 'Hart To Hart' on the TV, so the night wasn't a complete loss. I give it 2 stars for the story idea and 1 star for the canned stew that kept on giving.