The House of the Devil

A young college student who’s struggling financially takes a strange babysitting job which coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret, putting her life in mortal danger.

Cast

Jocelin Donahue

as Samantha

Tom Noonan

as Mr. Ulman

Mary Woronov

as Mrs. Ulman

Greta Gerwig

as Megan

AJ Bowen

as Victor Ulman

Dee Wallace

as Landlady

Heather Robb

as Heather

Darryl Nau

as Random Guy

Brenda Cooney

as Nurse

Ti West

as Favorite Teacher

Reviews

Adam CJ

By far, the SLOWEST horror film I've ever watched! Really don't waste the 95 mins it'll take to watch and be stupidly disappointed (stupidly, because you'll feel like an idiot for getting to the end of the film and realising you were being taken for one the whole time!). This film's writer/Director/...

John Chard

This one night changes everything for me. Ti West seems destined to be one of those horror film directors who forever will polarise opinions. For those of us who love the slow burn approach and admire his evident adoration of retro horror, then he hits the mark. Reference The House of the Devil a...

Nathan

After watching _X_ and _Pearl_, I was very excited to dive deeper into Ti West's filmography, unfortunately for me this one does not live up to the hype. This movie has a very old school feel to it, giving me flashbacks to the original _Halloween_ and _Friday the 13th_ with its film quality, atmosph...

Agustttt

The pacing is AWFUL, scenes drag out that have no plot relevance. Other than that, it's a solid movie. It with a lot of fat trimming it could be a thousand times better. The movie takes place in the 1980s and the film used to do so really pulls in that grain....

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