Why does everyone hate this movie? I thought the story was pretty fantastic.
The cinematography was hard to follow because everything was so dark, but the ending- it all comes together and you comprehend everything you just seen.
I thought it was fun, entertaining to watch, I mean who doesn't love creepy mansions? The acting was pretty decent as well. I defiantly will give it a 2nd watch to see some things I missed. Maybe a 3rd.
The movie wasn't all that bad in my opinion. It's a lot better than most high budget horror films that I've seen. This movie is very similar to the movie "Farmhouse".
If you're like me, a die-hard horror fan who likes to view many subgenres, you're probably going to ignore the criticism and watch it anyway. But my advice is this: If House is one of a half-dozen movies on your Netflix instant queue about to expire, de-prioritize this one.
I'm enough of a horror fan that I like to spend lots of my free time watching it, which means that I need to break into the lower-quality movies. I don't usually regret it. But, I could have lived without this movie.
The OP says that the story "comes together" at the end, but I guess my problem is that the mystery was hardly compelling enough for me to get to that point. I knew too little about who the Tin Man was, who this family was who also seemed to be the enemy, and why all that weird stuff was happening. I need a little more to 'hook' me and make me want to know the ending.
When the story is simply confusing from the get-go, I assume it's because of poor writing, and that the ending will also be a let-down. That was the case here.
I laughed that the OP called the movie "dark at the core," because it's the opposite--a little veneer of darkness, but a bright moral message at the core.
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