DAY THIRTEEN – THE HOUSES OCTOBER BUILT (2014)
Lucky number 13! The Houses October Built. I actually
watched this around Halloween last year but we had a few friends over so it
wasn’t really watching, more talking and yelling over it while the movie
happened in the background.
This is a found footage film following a group of friends
who are on a quest to find the scariest haunt they can. A haunt being the
haunted houses that people create and set up every year for Halloween. This
group have heard of a really obscure one that you need a password to get into,
and so they travel around the back country of America, going into haunts and
searching for this unique, secret one. But along their journey they are slowly
being terrorized by a group of people dressed up in costumes. When the friends
finally discover the password, the haunt is WAY more than they bargained for.
Houses is the directorial debut of Bobby Roe, and as far as
first films go…he did a great job! When they’re in the houses, the found footage
camera work is almost nauseating unfortunately and the ending is a hogwash of
mess that you can’t quite figure out what’s happening…in a bad way. But aside
from those flaws, it’s fine.
The idea of the film is unique and fun, especially for the
holiday season, and the cast do a fantastic job of being natural and realistic.
The costumed group of attackers remain creepy instead of cheesy and the
interviews with the locals keep you entranced.
As far as scares go? There aren’t any for me, but maybe
someone not so conditioned to horror films might get a little jumpy. The
costumes are super spooky though and scared me more than the film itself.
Won’t watch again, twice is more than enough, and probably wouldn’t
recommend unless it was for like a party/background noise type thing. 4/10.
Stay Spooky!
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