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Those of us who spent many hours in the '70s and '80s watching satanic cultists at work and play in junk like "Race With the Devil" (1975) will experience director Ti West's fourth feature in a different way from those...
The Devil, apparently, lives in an out-of-the-way gingerbread Victorian, just past the cemetery, where college sophomore Samantha (Jocelin Donahue) is lured for overnight housesitting by an elegant, forbidding couple (Tom Noonan and Mary Woronov, both queerly over-intimate). Though its poster and...
The House of the Devil, the new horror film written, edited and directed by Ti West, is all about the slow build. Those seeking wall-to-wall violence will most likely be very disappointed. This is about ramping up the tension for as long as possible before unleashing the intensity. Jocelin Donahue plays Samantha, a college sophomore who just landed a room in an off-campus house. Only problem is, she's...
Donahue plays Samantha, an agreeable, cash-strapped college student (and we learn only as much about her as the plot requires). Financial salvation comes from a flyer advertising a babysitting gig, which leads to a suspicious game of phone tag with her would-be employer (pay phones! Remember them') and a ride down a dark road to a big, creepy house, where Samantha learns she’ll actually be watching...
Among other things, Tom Noonan is a musician , playwright, and writer-director of two acclaimed films ( What Happened Was , The Wife ), but most will sooner recognize this tall, reserved but eerily intense gentleman as a memorable character actor from films as diverse as Manhunter , Mystery Train , and Synecdoche New York . His latest chance to effortlessly steal scenes arrives in Ti West 's wonderfully...
Mary Woronov may not have been up there with Edie Sedgwick, Viva, and Jane Holzer as one of Andy Warhol's "superstars," but she got a lot of mileage out of terrorizing International Velvet in his 1966 Chelsea Girls . She went on to star in such low-budget pleasures as Death Race 2000 , Rock 'n' Roll High School and the 1982 black-comedy classic Eating Raoul . And she’s just popped...
By Eric D. Snider (reprint from 5/3/2009 -- Tribeca Film Festival) The House of the Devil is a great name for a movie. It hearkens back to the days of grindhouse horror, when a film's title and its trailer told you basically everything you needed to know. Yet it's different from those movies, too, in that it prefers slow-building tension over frequent bloodletting and mayhem. You have to wait for...
"From writer-director Ti West comes THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, a satanic thriller set in the 1980s starring Jocelin Donahue (JT Petty’s forthcoming THE BURROWERS), indie ingénue Greta Gerwig (HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS, BAGHEAD), Tom Noonan (SNOW ANGELS, MANHUNTER), Mary Woronov (EATING RAOUL, THE DEVIL’S REJECTS), AJ Bowen (THE SIGNAL) and Dee Wallace (E.T., Rob Zombie’s HALLOWEEN)....
Ti West's The House of the Devil skims away so much of the noisy and excessive clichés of today’s terror flicks that it feels like a breath of fresh air – quite an achievement for a film that very consciously mimics the style and feel of 1980s horror.Taking his cues from John Carpenter and early Bob Clark, West delivers a quiet, enthralling genre film with a disarmingly simple story....