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User Reviews for: The Open House

foursmols
CONTAINS SPOILERS1/10  6 years ago
_"Death. It's like it moves in and never leaves."_

What a dreary, slow, monotonous waste of 90 minutes! This film is like a checklist of horror cliches brought to life. They're all included just for the sake of it. Seriously, these things happen for absolutely no reason and are never explained (someone's nose randomly starts bleeding, there's a blocked off passageway in a cellar, some old lady acts like a creepy-ass bitch and so on). There is no point to them actually happening. None whatsoever.

**///// The following four paragraphs contain spoilers but please read them anyway because you should not watch this movie /////**

The antagonist is absolutely ridiculous. He just... does things. [spoiler]He moves someone's cereal bowl from their bedroom to the living room in the time it takes that person to travel between those two rooms. How? And, more importantly, why?![/spoiler]

[spoiler]He attacks someone, then while they're on the ground he pours water on them. Why? Did he want them to slowly freeze to death outdoors? Does he just think it's amusing when people are drenched in water? Why not, I dunno, kill them maybe?[/spoiler]

[spoiler]He lies down in bed next to someone while they're asleep. In the middle of the night this person wakes up and looks through a pile of family photos. The antagonist has somehow managed to take photos of this person while they're sleeping, develop/print them and sneak them into the pile of family photos in literally no time at all. How did he know they would wake up and start looking through photos? WHAT IS THE POINT OF THIS?[/spoiler]

[spoiler]You never learn anything about the antagonist. His motivations? No. His possible connection to a murder that takes place at the beginning? No. He just wants to murder these people because they had an open house.[/spoiler] What a giant middle finger to the audience.
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