Thanks for the memories!

Good start, but then it gets ruined

Fantastic!

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

There is a certain concept that I love seeing within movies, when a group of people wake up in unfamiliar territory and have to participate in some dangerous activity such as a game.Obviously the SAW franchise comes under this category, the Cube movies and the brilliant Circle (2015) and The Human Race (2013).This is one of those and I was immediatly thrilled upon realising. I just love the idea I find it fascinating, how people react, the different personalities and the ruthlessness of people.House of 9 see's a group of people locked inside a house together unable to escape. Upon awaking the instructions are announced, only one can leave and they'll win five million pounds.Inevitably it doesn't take long before things to fall apart and the way it happens sadly could be better, but is still entertaining.This British made thriller stars Kelly Brook, Dennis Hopper and the last Doctor Who Peter Capaldi.Despite it's flaws I enjoyed this and was very impressed with the movies closing scene. Though it doesn't match the dizzying heights of the other examples of this concept it's still a passable movie.The Good:Great ideaFantastic finaleThe Bad:Questionable executionHoppers accent is horrificThings I Learnt From This Movie:Guns in movies are magic and have unlimited ammoKelly Brook can act without showing boobage

HOUSE OF 9 is one of those films I'd never even heard of until it showed up on an obscure TV channel in the middle of one night. What it turns out to be is a trapped-in-a-single-location thriller a la CUBE or SAW, with a typically disparate group of strangers waking up and finding themselves locked in a house. The story has been done before in MY LITTLE EYE, and the BIG BROTHER overtones are clear, but this kind of film is quite easy to do well and HOUSE OF 9 is fairly decent in that respect.The narrative will surprise nobody; initial tensions between opposing character types soon lead to all-out violence and eventual murder, and of course there's a twist ending to turn everything on its head at the climax. But aside from an occasional misstep - a couple of music interludes to pad out the running time, for example - this works well. The dialogue is snappy, the events that follow are surprising but believable, and it all hangs together quite nicely without descending into slasher film nonsense.The cast is interesting too: Kelly Brook is the nominal heroine and probably gives the best performance I've seen from her, as it's more understated than you'd expect and almost like she'd playing herself. Dennis Hopper is a laugh as the Irish priest, and there's novelty value in seeing a cast-against-type Peter Capaldi in a minor part. Watch out for Hippolyte Girardot's creepy husband, though...

This movie seems to have mixed reviews and has been compared to others and I do see similarities however there are plenty of movies out there that are similar to another or a total rip off or remake whatever so just because it may have similarities does not make it a bad movie. My only issue with the movie is a couple of the first few characters that were offed I was actually liking better than some of the ones that were left towards the end however the story obviously wouldn't have been the same. The movie for the most part kept my interest though I did nod off at one part but maybe that's because it was three in the morning! What really made this movie was the ending. I love a good plot twist or surprise ending and this has a pretty good one. Now this is considered horror most likely due to the violence but I would consider it more of a psychological thriller.

Great looking set. Nice (if not original) set up. Everything else was poor or very poor. Hopper and a wasted Peter Capaldi seemed to be playing who can do the worst accent. The film was horribly padded with no less than three montages (we had a power ballad one, an R&B one and even an opera one). I mean, how can you have an extended montage in something trying to be a suspense thriller? At one point it started to look like a Bon Jovi video. The story would have made a passable 30 minute episode of Tales of the Unexpected. Clichés a-plenty and a bunch of two-dimensional folk you really couldn't give two sh*ts about.If I had to pick my favourite awful moment, I think I'd have to go for our 'I-am-a-stereotype-but-dont-you-dare-call-me-a-stereotype' black bloke when he actually started rapping at the stereotypical cop bloke! It was beyond embarrassing.