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The House of the Devil

2009 · 95 min

A slow, creeping dread builds through quiet isolation and period detail, rewarding patience with a tense, unsettling payoff.

Directed by
Ti West
Genres
Horror, Mystery
Starring
Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov
Tagline
Talk on the phone. Finish your homework. Watch TV. Die.
Overview
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.

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Directed by
Ti West
Genres
Horror, Mystery
Starring
Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov
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Tone
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • survival
  • faith
  • violence
  • death
Places
  • single country house
  • countryside
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror9
Humour2
Realism6
Romance0
Tension9
Darkness8
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Starring
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Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
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Country
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Languages
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