House of Darkness

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House of Darkness

R

Released Sep 9, 2022

1h 29m

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Mystery & Thriller

Comedy

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Justin Long and Kate Bosworth star in this seductive thriller from director Neil LaBute (The Wicker Man). Driving home to her secluded estate after meeting at a local bar, a player out to score thinks his beautiful, mysterious date will be another casual hook-up. While getting acquainted, their flirtation turns playful, sexy and sinister. Hoping to get lucky, his luck may have just run out.

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Critics Consensus

House of Darkness finds writer-director Neil LaBute just as acerbic as ever, although he's made more compelling statements on sexual mores.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

This feels like something LaBute wrote in an afternoon on the notes app on his smartphone while thinking about something else.

Rated: 1/5

Oct 4, 2022

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Noel Murray

Los Angeles Times

While the material here is thin and largely predictable (aside from one great jump scare), the cast is outstanding and the dialogue is snappy, delivered at a brisk pace.

Sep 16, 2022

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Peter Sobczynski

RogerEbert.com

An intriguing and occasionally quite witty battle of the sexes, in which not all of the bloodshed is strictly metaphorical.

Rated: 3.5/4

Sep 9, 2022

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Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana

Moving Pictures Film Club

Despite the film being dialogue heavy, this setting and the witty script keep both the tension and rhythm of delivery at an exciting pace, gripping even the most attention challenged viewer.

Rated: 5/5

Jul 15, 2024

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Matt Pais

MattPais.com

A screen saver posing as a movie, with a dead-end plot merely killing time before, um, killing time.

Rated: C-

Jun 12, 2023

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Jordy Sirkin

Jordy Reviews It

HOUSE OF DARKNESS takes a famous gothic horror tale in a new direction as a slightly comical examination of modern dating and misogynistic culture.

Jan 26, 2023

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Sam

Movie sucked ass, just a guy being awkward for an hour and a half

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

09/25/22

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anonymous

waste of time and money

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

09/12/22

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Chas

Overall this movie was just awful.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

09/10/22

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Dante A

I looooove Justin. I even love them together IRL. Man, this movie was absolutely awful. I don't normally post reviews but damn this went nowhere. It was just stupid ass talking the whole movie. The ending was so lame. I would rather watch the new (awful) Jeepers creepers 3 again than this. Drag me to Hell, Barbarian etc etc... all so good. This was just awful.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

11/14/24

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Christian C

This was surprisingly better than what I thought it’d be. You can look at the critical versus audience scores and immediately glean that people who watch and interpret movies for a living tended to have a higher opinion of this than did the random smattering of average wanks who probably likely only created an RT account out of red-faced rage to rant and drool about how upset the latest “woke” movie coming out of “Hollyweird” is. There seems to be a lot of improv dialogue in this, and due to this, the conversations are extremely realistic but also very uncomfortable and awkward: jokes which you’d hear in a bar right before you’d groan at them, transparently obvious lines followed quickly by an excuse or denial to pretend they didn’t mean what they *obviously* meant… that sort of thing. It’s not terribly hard to predict, but this movie didn’t astound based on its shock-value. It instead made itself interesting by telling you what it thought and testing to see if you have the resolve to also arrive at the same conclusion(s). And apparently, only about 1-out-of-every-5 audience members *did* have that resolve.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

11/11/24

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Rachel A

Terribly slow and boring and then it ended. An hour and a half I’ll never get back!

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

06/23/24

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Justin Long and Kate Bosworth star in this seductive thriller from director Neil LaBute (The Wicker Man). Driving home to her secluded estate after meeting at a local bar, a player out to score thinks his beautiful, mysterious date will be another casual hook-up. While getting acquainted, their flirtation turns playful, sexy and sinister. Hoping to get lucky, his luck may have just run out.

Director: Neil LaBute
Producer: Daryl Freimark, Tim Harms, Neil LaBute, Shaun Sanghani, Kerri Elder, Blake Elder
Screenwriter: Neil LaBute
Distributor: Saban Films
Production Co: SSS Entertainment, SSS Film Capital
Rating: R
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 9, 2022, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 13, 2022
Runtime: 1h 29m

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