2009 · horror · thriller
The House of the Devil (2009)
Directed by Ti West1h 35m2009
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.
Our read: The House of the Devil (2009) (2009) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive horror · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, measured horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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