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3/4
The House of the Devil - Movie Review
Matthew Brady - wrote on 10/15/2016
How many times have you heard people praise movies or TV shows just based on it's 80's theme and it's nostalgic references. It's happening all the time now.
"Stranger Things" (TV show)
"200 Cigarettes"
"Wet Hot American Summer"
The list goes on, but I don't want to be here all day. Yeah, it's cool seeing this film or music from the 80's there as the scene plays out. But why do I have this feeling that it's only there because the creator or director wants it there just because he likes that movie or song. The same goes with the setting and the feel that I think is missing in these homages. It just doesn't feel like it's the 80's, even if you throw in the endless references and throw backs.
But then you get a film like "The House of the Devil" that went out of it's way to look …
Rating of
4/4
The House of the Devil
Drive-In Massacre - wrote on 10/10/2011
Now, this one was a real treat. I saw the dvd box for this about two years ago and I never forgot it, I don't know why, but I wanted to see since then. Oddly enough, I never once read up on it, so once I had the opportunity to watch I went into it with absolutely no clue what to expect...at all.
I had no idea that it was going to be "Grindhouse-esque" film, emulating the look and storytelling of films of its era, and in all honesty, as far as that aspect is concerned it is nothing short of perfect, the look especially gets it better than Rodriguez and Tarantino. If I was shown a scene from this movie and wasn't told what year it was released, I could have very well guessed that it came out around '83, and I could almost always tell if it's authentic. It gets the look of early 80s …
