The Open House

3.3
2018 1 hr 34 min Horror , Thriller

A teenager and his mother find themselves besieged by threatening forces when they move into a new house.

  • Cast:
    Dylan Minnette , Piercey Dalton , Sharif Atkins , Patricia Bethune , Matt Angel , Aaron Abrams , Leigh Parker

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Reviews

TinsHeadline
2018/01/19

Touches You

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XoWizIama
2018/01/20

Excellent adaptation.

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Console
2018/01/21

best movie i've ever seen.

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Quiet Muffin
2018/01/22

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

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Rakuray
2018/01/23

Only enjoyable if you watch it with a friend so you can go 'WTF' and make fun of it the whole way through.

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Edwin Pritchett
2018/01/24

Everything every one has written about this "film" in the comments is true. Totally incomprehensible movie. I rarely see a film that really doesn't try to wrap up the story. I have seen many hurried lame wrap ups but rarely the non wrap up. Simple put strange killer appears, never identified or motives linked to anything. Gratuitious violence entered for no point. Take the advice, skip it.

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purrlgurrl
2018/01/25

The late, great film reviewer Roger Ebert often used the phrase "idiot plot" in negative reviews. He was referring to film plots that depended on the main characters behaving like idiots in order to move the story along (for example, a young, scantily clad coed goes to check out a pitch black corridor all alone because she heard strange noises coming from it). In short, nobody in real life would ever behave the way the movie's characters do. So it is in The Open House. A recently widowed mother and her seemingly none too bright teenage son move into her sister's palatial mountain mansion because she can't afford the rent on her own house after her husband dies. The catch is the house is for sale so she and her son must leave for the realtor open houses every Sunday. During the first open house, a sinister figure seen only from the knees down comes to the showing. After it's over and they've returned home, son says to Mom that open houses are weird because you give people keys to your house so they can look at it when you're not home. But how do you know they ever leave the house? Therein lies the entire plot. Given the massive house and the number of rooms in it, of course the ominous stranger who possesses those legs we saw earlier is still there stalking them. These two are so ignorant of what's going on around them that the homicidal stranger climbs into bed with Mom and she doesn't even notice. How idiotic can a movie character get? Pass this turkey right on by. I don't even know why I watched it to the end. I guess I was just curious to see how bad the movie could get.

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kvmccrory
2018/01/26

Well, despite the bad writing reviews, I think the writing was had potential. But it seems like the ending was just forgotten. Quite a letdown.

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