2017 · horror · tv-movie · supernatural
House of the Witch
Directed by Alex Merkin1h 30m2017
A group of high-school kids set out to play a Halloween prank at an abandoned house, but once they enter they become victims of a demonic witch who has set her wrath upon them.
Our read: House of the Witch (2017) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive horror · tv-movie · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, measured horror / tv-movie, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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