The Night House (2020)
Twelfth review is for a movie that when I watched 20 seconds of the trailer, I immediately put it on my list. I have been waiting for it to come out on streaming and right this second after watching it I’m let the fuck down. Lake house, creepy, haunting, suicide, demon, witchcraft, black woman sideeyes. Includes #spoilers :
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The Night House (2020) Pros: The sound design was perfectly balanced, I think it really helped cue when some of the evil silhouettes were present. Rebecca Hall is always an actress I trust to give me a great performance and this was heavy on her face so I enjoyed that. The house was gorgeous, that’s what I want to see with a house by the lake. The story had potential to build in several ways (also a con) The black lady teacher out getting drink’s disapproving looks made me smile.
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Cons: She all over there touching the totem, damn girl. From what I saw nothing the husband did worked, kept the demon away from her, but still plagued him. Why would the creature go bother the husband if it could curl shorty up in a pretzel with ease? She went to the book store to do more research about the reverse house & totem, why did she stop? The trickster said the husband sacrificed the other women to confuse him, but wouldn’t one woman suffice? Not many women over years? Building it up in several ways was a con because I was excited at the potential that he built a second house in some weird dimensional portal (like the movies Coherence / Palm Beach) with another version of herself and then she finds it and her and her other self gotta figure shit out. I was ready for that, but this was a slow burn to her facing off with a version of death who could throw her around, but needs her to kill herself? She sees all these dead bodies in a house that her husband built and just calls her friend and takes a shower? & teasing the story isn’t over with a silhouette in the water at the end, what’s the point?
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I rate this a 5, not terrible not great. Too many questions, interesting paths untaken, silly ending, but nice cinematography, entertaining acting, and they used their budget.
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