House of Darkness

Name: House of Darkness
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Comedy
Released: September 9, 2022
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 54
Cast: Gia Crovatin, Justin Long, Kate Bosworth, Lucy Walters

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Saban Films | Release Date: September 9, 2022 | R

Starring: Gia Crovatin, Justin Long, Kate Bosworth, Lucy Walters

Summary: Driving home to her secluded estate after meeting at a local bar, a player (Justin Long) out to score thinks his beautiful, mysterious date (Kate Bosworth) will be another casual hook-up. While getting acquainted, their flirtation turns playful, sexy and sinister. Hoping to get lucky, his luck may have just run out.

Director: Neil LaBute

Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 89 min

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Bobby LePire

Sep 9, 2022

LaBute rewards patient viewers with two amazing lead performances, crackling dialogue, and genuine suspense. While the film might be flawed, it is imminently watchable. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Peter Sobczynski

Sep 9, 2022

With his latest film, “House of Darkness,” LaBute tries something similar to "The Wicker Man." And while the results may not be nearly as outlandish this time around, they do make for an intriguing and occasionally quite witty battle of the sexes, in which not all of the bloodshed is strictly metaphorical. Read full review

The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Sep 5, 2022

LaBute is meticulously escalating the danger by providing Hap his wildest dreams in a way that reveals to the audience how their ability to come true is reliant upon him losing control. Read full review

Slashfilm Jeff Ewing

Sep 9, 2022

As a whole, House of Darkness is a very mixed bag of a film. The script shifts from nuanced to blunt depending on what minute you're watching, but the central performances add a layer of complexity that's often worth watching. Read full review

Matt Donato

Sep 8, 2022

Where Josh Ruben’s Scare Me soars thanks to tension delivered through imaginative monologues, LaBute’s latest is mostly benign chatter that rambles its way to an unimpressively expected conclusion. Read full review

Leigh Monson

Sep 6, 2022

Ultimately, House Of Darkness exists in a strange and equally fatal no man’s land of being simultaneously under- and overwritten. As a feature film, it’s entirely insubstantial, with a premise better served in short form as part of an anthology. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Oct 4, 2022

This feels like something LaBute wrote in an afternoon on the notes app on his smartphone while thinking about something else. Read full review

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JLau

Oct 25, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Guy gets picked up in a bar and gets taken back to a woman's castle-mansion, talks a lot, drinks a lot and completely ignores the fact that she and her sister are obviously vampires about to kill him, because he's too busy trying to get it on with one or both of them.… Expand

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brentwshelton1

Sep 16, 2022

WHAT? f I wanted to relive 80 minutes of stilted, uncomfortable, awkward post pick up dialogue just to have it end badly....I have my personal memories from my 20s....not really what I'm looking for in a vampire movie

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