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tonight's feature: The House of the Devil (2009) on Shudder
House of the Devil was a fantastic throwback to classic horror films of the 70s and 80s. So much so that you might even think it was actually filmed in the mid-80s. Allegedly they used the same technology as those older films to get the same vintage feel. The rotary phones and music selection were nice touches.
Samantha is a young college student who's getting a new place but she really needs to figure out how she's going to pay for it. She ends up seeing a flyer looking for a babysitter and calls the number. Big mistake. Once she shows up for the job, it turns out not to be a babysitting gig after all, but looking after an elderly mother during a lunar eclipse. She decides things aren't quite right and wants to leave but the creepy tall man offers her $400. $400 was a lot of money back then, apparently. Samantha decides to stick it out for the 4 hours against her best friend's urgent pleas. Naturally, all hell breaks loose.
Highly recommended if you dig slow burn horror, occult craziness, the Fixx, and obviously 70s and 80s horror movie vibes. I probably would have done the ending different but still I gotta give House of the Devil 9 pepperoni pizza slices out of 10.
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