The Houses October Built

2014
5.2| 1h31m| en| More Info
Released: 10 October 2014 Released
Producted By: Room 101
Country: United States of America
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Beneath the fake blood and cheap masks of countless haunted house attractions across the country, there are whispers of truly terrifying alternatives. Looking to find an authentic, blood-curdling good fright for Halloween, five friends set off on a road trip in an RV to track down these underground Haunts. Just when their search seems to reach a dead end, strange and disturbing things start happening and it becomes clear that the Haunt has come to them…

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re-animatresse well, the premise is interesting – a group of friends travelling Texas and Louisiana in search of a secret haunted house experience that's supposedly more 'extreme'/scarier than any other. unfortunately the execution doesn't do the story justice the camera never stops bouncing and swiveling like the director is jerking off with it through the entire film. seriously, it's bad even for the found footage style. the first 30 minutes are primarily dull, seemingly unscripted banter between dull, undeveloped characters. i guess the lack of scripted dialogue is meant to add to the documentary-style, found footage presentation, but it doesn't really add anything to the story, and you can stretch it out only so far before it begins to look like obvious filler. edit out all the unnecessary parts of this film and shorten the scenes that drag on to the point of killing all tension, and you'd have a marginally interesting 20 - 30 minute short. i can't imagine why anyone thought it needed a sequel, or who would want to sit through it after having watched this, but i for one will be looking elsewhere for entertainment this holiday season
thomasmorris-97428 Spoiler Alert!This review contains spoilers, but let's be honest if it's 2016 and you haven't seen this stretched out short do not see it now. Go your own way, awful things lurk here.Things like: No character motivation, why do these characters (especially after one if almost raped) continue to pursue this dead end adventure when they are clearly being stalked? Why are they filming it? One says he was a film school drop out, but not everyone who set foot in film school films everything.Why are they being stalked? If so many millions of people go to haunts each year why is this group chosen for the blue skeleton? There is an indication that some of the staff at the first haunt are stalking them because they made an ill advised decision to proclaim their love of Halloween from the roof top of a haunt, but that's not explored any deeper.Was that last haunt actually the blue skeleton or some murder cult that tricked them? This is one of those questions that would have made the movie better.Who wrote the script? Everyone behind a mask sounds like the same guy trying to sound southern, but has never heard a southern accent. Every haunt worker who adds to the plot sounds like this. The ending is so bad that it's not even certain who dies. Being buried alive is everyone's worst nightmare, but its been in so many movies that you need some kind of special twist to make it intriguing anymore. On top of that, the crazy haunt workers who bury them don't act very crazy, they basically bury them in about three feet of dirt them smoke a cigarette and talk about what's for lunch, which probably wasn't even a terrifying meal of people! They probably just went to Denny's and had pancakes like a normal family, which still would have been creepier than the actual ending!They might have cut off one character's tongue, but you never see the tongue or really even know if that's what happened. They might have cut up one fella with a chain saw, but then you see him getting buried alive.I thought that they may have been going for some ambiguity, but they set up very terrifying questions and then instantly answer them, and leave really boring questions unanswered. Did any haunts actually use real corpses? Who knows...On top of the terrible script, lack of character motivation, poor attempt at ambiguity, and ending where they did literally every right thing wrong, the actors (who might have been great with a good script or entirely different movie) were all cookie cutters of each other. Every male except Mike is the exact same character. So much so that by the middle of the movie I couldn't figure out who was who. Mike is only different because he is a little bit dumber, has red hair and a beard. Brandy had a chance of standing out, but turned into a lackluster version of a female co-star.This is the first review I've ever written so go easy on me. If my review is awful consider the source material. If you skipped then entire review to find the point at the end, here is the point.Do not watch this movie. It's awful.
atinder The house October built 2015Not sure want to make of this , I thought it had a decent plot at first There some good haunted house scenes but when the really scary stuff happens to them Well it was not scary or it was just really odd and not in a good way .Most of time I was thinking it all a big hoax but it's wax not , I wish it Was.I don't understand why those peolpe were doing what they were doing I felt like I missed a part of a movie.Acting was just annoying 3 out of 10
David Arnold This isn't actually that bad of a film from a film-making perspective. I mean it's put together decently enough, it's pretty well acted for the main part, and it did (just) enough to hold my interest. What lets it down for me is that it is a pretty dull film overall, and not enough happens to really scare you or freak you out, which is a pity because you would have expected more from a film dealing with haunted houses at Halloween.The film also gets a bit repetitive. They visit a haunted house, something happens, they move on to the next house: repeat. The in between incidents obviously differ but the whole outer packaging is the same.One strange thing I noticed about the film was that all of these bad, weird, and strange things were happening to the group more and more, gradually increasing, yet they still proceeded to look for the location of this "extreme haunt". I think most people would have just said "to Hell with this!" and would have left.Extreme dedication for the cause or just plain stupidity? I know where I sit on that one, but I'll let you decide for yourself.Is this a creepy film? Meh...kinda of, but only because of the Halloween haunted houses that the main group visit and the character of Porcelain. It was a bit too cliché with the amount of clown actors though. I mean I know they freak people out and can be creepy, but it just seemed that every second haunted house actor was a clown. The ending will probably freak some people out though, especially if they are claustrophobic. Other than that, there's not really much more to add to the creep factor of the film for me and it could (should?) have been much creepier given the film's story and setting.Oh, and this is another addition to the POV/found footage genre, so if you don't like that style of film-making then you'll hate this.Anyway, I've seen worse, and while it's not an awful film and it's worth a one-time watch, there's much, much better films of this genre to choose from.