Home Sweet Hell

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Home Sweet Hell

R

Released Mar 13, 2015

1h 38m

Mystery & Thriller

Comedy

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A suburban housewife (Katherine Heigl) with a cheating husband is not above killing the competition to preserve her domestic bliss.

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Critics Consensus

Home Sweet Hell mistakes misogyny for subversive wit, aiming for black comedy but ending up with a grueling test of viewer endurance that wastes game efforts from its likable leads.

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Mike D'Angelo

AV Club

[A] noxious piece of crud.

Rated: D-

Jul 28, 2015

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Sheila O'Malley

RogerEbert.com

Questions start arising immediately: Is it satire? Is it black comedy? What is this?

Rated: 1/4

Mar 13, 2015

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Gary Goldstein

Los Angeles Times

If Katherine Heigl thought the unappetizing dark comedy "Home Sweet Hell" might somehow help her flagging film career, she was greatly mistaken.

Mar 12, 2015

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Christine N. Ziemba

Paste Magazine

In the end, Home Sweet Hell is neither an adequate black comedy nor a good slasher film. It's just hellish. There's nothing sweet about it.

Rated: 2.5/10

Jul 28, 2015

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S. Jhoanna Robledo

Common Sense Media

Insipid black comedy about suburban materialism and murder.

Rated: 1/5

Mar 20, 2015

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Maitland McDonagh

Film Journal International

[Home Sweet Hell is] nothing more or less than a toothless satire of suburban conformity that might have felt a little more dangerous six decades ago.

Mar 16, 2015

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Tony T

Not that bad. However, it seems they made a pretty good character out of the wife who is honestly the star of the show, but they end up wasting her at the end.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

06/16/25

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Niko H

Movie was great, could have been longer with more to it but the plot was built in a timely manner & pretty realistic. A lot of hate for this movie by obtuse people with no life experiences.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/22/25

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Deserae S

I read the reviews and still watched it just to see if I agree with the critics. I think a lot of them were more attached to their personal feelings on the leading actress and not the movie itself. It was pretty good. This a the film if you like weird dark independent feel comedies.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

10/02/24

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Giorgio G

What starts out as a silly slightly comic family flick, soon becomes a very macabre, dark and bloody affair, but strangely enough, as being so far over the top, it becomes grotesquely and absurdly funny. Katherine makes for the perfect cold psychopath growing from her obsessive-compulsory attitude into full blown bloodthirsty craziness. One needs a taste for black humor to enjoy this flick, but if you do have that, it is quite hilarious. 7/10 points.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

11/16/23

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Big D

I think that a lot of these rarings must come from people who never saw the movie. Either that, or they think every movie should be Citizen Kane. This is a fun movie with very good acting and plenty of plot twists. Catherine Heigl was great and so SEXY!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

08/29/23

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Audience Member

Not very family friendly can’t recommend it James Welch, June 21, 2023

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

06/22/23

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Synopsis

A suburban housewife (Katherine Heigl) with a cheating husband is not above killing the competition to preserve her domestic bliss.

Director: Anthony Burns
Producer: Sean McKittrick, Jeff Culotta, A.J. Buckley, Anthony Burns
Screenwriter: Carlo Allen, Ted Elrick, Tom Lavagnino
Distributor: Vertical Entertainment
Production Co: Darko Entertainment, Donnybrook 4
Rating: R (Sexual Content|Language|Some Drug Use|Violence)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 13, 2015, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2016
Runtime: 1h 38m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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