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Home Sweet Hell

R Released Mar 13, 2015 1h 38m Mystery & Thriller Comedy List
5% Tomatometer 20 Reviews 27% Popcornmeter 2,500+ Ratings
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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review S. Jhoanna Robledo Common Sense Media Insipid black comedy about suburban materialism and murder. Rated: 1/5 Mar 20, 2015 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews

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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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Denise J This movie was freaking awesome! It just kept getting better and better. My jaw dropped during the Dusty scene. Katherine Heigl is amazing as a psycho. "Like a human Kabob" lmaoooo Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Kyle J A good dark comedy. The film contains the right kind of unlikely hero. Mind you, I would give I MARRIED AN AX MURDERER an A grade; this movie gets a B-. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

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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