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Raising Hell: Style vs. Substance in The House Of The Devil

3 November 2009 3:22 PM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Having been bombarded with hype-filled reviews, I went into The House Of The Devil with high expectations. Unfortunately, I came away from the film feeling as disappointed as I felt after watching Oren Peli's over-hyped Paranormal Activity (which may have worked as a short film that took place over three nights, but was simply excruciatingly at feature length).

Ti West undeniably captured the look, sound and feel of indie horror films from the late '70s and early '80s. It's too bad that a lot of reviewers seem to have been so overcome with the film's style that they neglected to point out how little substance the film has. I guess I should have known better, given the trend in recent years where film analysis being replaced with how a film either appeals to or offends a reviewer's sense of nostalgia in what are supposed to be film reviews. »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Brian Matus, a.k.a. Hellstorm)

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The House of the Devil

3 November 2009 4:30 AM, PST | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »

Release Date: October 30 Director/Writer: Ti West Cinematographer: Eliot Rockett Starring: Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Greta Gerwig Studio/Run Time: Magnolia Pictures/93 mins. The devil’s in the details of this modern horror classic The House of the Devil isn’t just a movie: it’s an experience. It joins the league of Rosemary’s Baby, The Exorcist and The Omen as one of the most diabolical entries in the modern horror library. And as you can probably guess, it’s also batshit scary.... »

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Shrieks from the '80s: Ti West on The House of the Devil

31 October 2009 3:23 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »

Ti West sure digs his retro. In The Roost -- his tidy little horror film about a group of travelers threatened by some really nasty bats -- he added a wraparound featuring Tom Noonan in tacky butler drag, holding forth in front of a cardboard set as host of a local Saturday Night Chiller Feature broadcast. For The House of the Devil -- which reunites West with Noonan and adds in Mary Woronov for good measure -- it's a blast from the '80s, complete with a really gnarly font and a freeze-frame for the opening titles. Elbow-in-the-ribs tip-offs aside, The House of the Devil -- about a college student (Jocelin Donahue) who goes to an isolated abode for a babysitter gig and (surprise!) encounters more than she bargained for, including Noonan and Woronov as her clients -- shows off West's skill... »

- Dan Persons

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Horror Review: ‘House Of The Devil’

31 October 2009 11:30 AM, PDT | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »

House of the Devil is now playing in limited release. You can also access it on demand through many cable providers, and it is available to rent on Amazon.com.  So, just in time for Halloween, I give you this review.

If you are a fan of 80’s horror movies, you’ll probably be delighted by this movie. I fear that today’s fickle horror fan, who is accustomed to frenetic stylings à la the Saw franchise, will be bored to tears by this very deliberately paced thriller. College student Samantha (perfectly cast Jocelin Donahue) is desperate to get an apartment in order to get away from her slutty dorm roommate who feels free to have sex in their room all the time.  She finds an apartment, and a kindly landlady (scream queen Dee Wallace) who requires a modest deposit.

Samantha answers a dubious ad for a babysitter in order to make some cash. »

- Shannon Hood

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‘The House of the Devil’ is a Trip Back in Suspense Horror

31 October 2009 10:19 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – Halloween is the perfect time to revisit those horror films of youth, lost in the mall theaters or crackling through the Vcr in a multiply rented copy. “The House of the Devil” reveres those roots and brings them back to light.

Rating: 3.5/5.0

The year is 1983 and Jocelin Donahue portrays Samantha, a financially challenged student in a small college town. Desperate to leave her dorm living situation, she finds a perfect apartment right next to campus. The problem is she doesn’t have the rent down payment and has no means to get it.

Enter the campus bulletin board, with a mysterious posting for a “babysitter” to make instant cash. When Samantha calls the number, a serious voice tells her how desperate he is to have her take the job.

When she arrives at the house, the peculiar Mr. Ulman (Tom Noonan) gives her a rundown of her duties. She »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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Podcast: Tom Noonan (The House of the Devil)

31 October 2009 6:52 AM, PDT | GreenCine Daily | See recent GreenCine Daily news »

Among other things, Tom Noonan is a musician, playwright, and writer-director of two acclaimed films (What Happened Was, The Wife), but most will sooner recognize this tall, reserved but eerily intense gentleman as a memorable character actor from films as diverse as Manhunter, Mystery Train, and Synecdoche New York. His latest chance to effortlessly steal scenes arrives in Ti West's wonderfully slow-burning, retro-horror flick, The House of the Devil: Sam (Jocelin Donahue) is a pretty college sophomore, so desperate to earn some cash for a deposit on an apartment that she accepts a babysitting job even after she finds out there is no baby. Mr. and Mrs. Ulman (cult actors Tom Noonan and Mary Woronov) are the older couple who lure Sam out to their creeky Victorian mansion deep in the woods, just in time for a total lunar eclipse. Megan (Greta Gerwig) is Sam's best friend, who »

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The House of the Devil - Ti West and Jocelin Donahue Q&A Tonight!

30 October 2009 5:24 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

Tonight only, director Ti West and actress Jocelin Donahue will be holding a Q&A session after the 7:20pm and 9:45pm screenings of The House of the Devil at the Sunset 5 in Los Angeles.

The House of the Devil (review here) is a satanic thriller set in the 1980's starring Jocelin Donahue, indie ingénue Greta Gerwig, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, Aj Bowen, and Dee Wallace-Stone.

Synopsis

Sam (Donahue) is a pretty college sophomore, so desperate to earn some cash for a deposit on an apartment that she accepts a babysitting job even after she finds out there is no baby. Mr. and Mrs. Ulman (Noonan and Woronov) are the older couple who lure Sam out to their creaky Victorian mansion deep in the woods, just in time for a total lunar eclipse. Megan (Gerwig) is Sam's best friend, who gives her a ride out to the house and »

- Uncle Creepy

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Review: The House of the Devil

30 October 2009 1:03 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

By Eric D. Snider (reprint from 5/3/2009 -- Tribeca Film Festival)

The House of the Devil is a great name for a movie. It hearkens back to the days of grindhouse horror, when a film's title and its trailer told you basically everything you needed to know. Yet it's different from those movies, too, in that it prefers slow-building tension over frequent bloodletting and mayhem. You have to wait for "The House of the Devil" to deliver on its promises -- but when it does, holy crap. I know that isn't a very scholarly analysis, but seriously. Holy crap.

The film is set in the early 1980s, apparently, with appropriately synthesized rock on the soundtrack and lots of freeze-frames in the opening credits. Our perky young heroine, Samantha (Jocelin Donahue), is a college student who's sick of living in the dorms and is preparing to move into an apartment with her »

- Cinematical staff

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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 25 ‘The House of the Devil’ Passes to Advance Chicago Screening

29 October 2009 11:28 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – In our latest horror edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 25 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of “The House of the Devil”!

“The House of the Devil” from writer and director Ti West (read our interview with him here) stars Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, Greta Gerwig, Aj Bowen, Dee Wallace, Heather Robb, Mary B. McCann and John Speredakos. The 1980s-set satanic thriller opens in Chicago on Nov. 13, 2009 and was part of the 2009 Chicago International Film Festival.

To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “The House of the Devil” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, all you need to do is answer our question below. That’s it! This screening will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter this Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.

“The House of the Devil »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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Terrifyingly Gnarly #18 – House Of The Devil’s A.J. Bowen

28 October 2009 5:38 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

To me, it’s fitting that in our lengthy conversation, actor A.J. Bowen tells me he was close to answering the phone with Tom Atkins’ famous line, “Thrill Me.” With his phenomenal facial hair (which I open the interview with) and true talent showcased in our beloved genre, I can see him attaining the heights of that classic ’80s hero. This Friday, Ti West’s much anticipated House Of The Devil reaches theaters (you can currently check it out on VOD, and you should!) where you can see Bowen in a relatively small but integral and very fun role. Punch drunk in love with the film since I saw it earlier this year at Tribeca and a huge admirer of Bowen’s excellent work in The Signal, I knew I’d have to get him talking about it all. So read on, and get excited about the lumberjack resembling future of horror, »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Sam Zimmerman)

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Excl: House Of The Devil 's Aj Bowen

28 October 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »

If you had any doubts just how huge a horror fan actor Aj Bowen was before this interview, then you should know that it was his idea for us to meet and have this chat while touring the familiar streets of Pasadena, which served as many of the shooting locations for John Carpenter.s classic Halloween . Definitely the perfect backdrop for this writer to talk to him about a little movie called The House Of The Devil . Having appeared in the Sundance hit The Signal , as well as the (yet-to-be-released) black and white indie pic Maidenhead , Bowen is no stranger to the genre. (Hell, he knows exactly where Michael Myers house is!) We chatted candidly about working with his friend writer/director Ti West, playing the son of Tom Noonan and Mary Woronov, the .Satanic Panic. scare... »

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House Of The Devil Movie Review

27 October 2009 8:00 PM, PDT | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »

The House Of The Devil is as perfect an 80's horror film as we'll ever get in this decade. The only thing missing is the giant clamshell VHS case. The look, style, tone, pacing, even the credits nail the feel of a flick your friends would've rented out for a slumber party, but weren't quite sure what it was about. It's fun for fans of the genre (yes, 80's possession horror is a sub-sect) but Add-editing style fanatics should move along to the next defanged crappy remake.

The House of the Devil is the classic story of a nubile young coed Samantha, played by Jocelin Donahue and who could be the younger sister of Marion from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Samantha is enrolled at a sleepy college and has roommate problems. Namely, her roommate is always having raucous sex, distracting from her scholarly duties. Samantha wants out, and has »

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Ti West Gives Horror a Good Name

27 October 2009 12:14 PM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

With mainstream horror now defined by cruddy PG-13 originals and even cruddier remakes, Ti West's "The House of the Devil" couldn't have arrived at a better time. An unpredictable saga of teenage boredom and Satanic cults in which a college student makes the mistake of taking a babysitting gig at Tom Noonan's titular residence, West's third film (after "The Roost" and "Trigger Man") assumes the guise of an '80s genre flick -- from its title credits to its hair styles -- without ever treating those trappings as jokes. More faux-relic than cheeky homage, the film confirms West's status as a distinctive indie auteur, with his preference for long, languorous takes and his sincere interest in human behavior lending his horror show a uniquely ominous chill. While in Manhattan, he sat down with me to discuss the sorry state of contemporary horror, his unpleasant experiences making the still-unreleased »

- Nick Schager

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Exclusive Video: Ti West Resides in The House of the Devil

27 October 2009 5:04 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

If this past weekend's box office was any indication horror fan's appetites might be changing. The type of films that fans have been gravitating towards over the last few years, the so-called "torture porn" genre, was well represented this past weekend with Saw VI but fans chose to see the The Blair Witch Project-style movie Paranormal Activity instead, which goes more for scares than gore. This could be a good sign for director Ti West whose new film The House of the Devil, which opens in theaters on October 30th, is a throwback to classic horror films like Halloween and When A Stranger Calls, and should give real horror fans a run for their money this Halloween season. We had a chance to speak with director Ti West and his leading actress, Jocelin Donahue, about their new film and the fate of Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever. To watch »

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Why You Really Should Experience 'The House of the Devil'

26 October 2009 9:20 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

From its synth-heavy opening song and freeze-frame-filled beginning credits, Ti West’s The House of the Devil is a loving, respectful ode to the horror films of the 1970s and '80s. But don’t expect to get a warm, fuzzy feeling from all that affection; The House of the Devil is a gory, eerie film that doesn’t follow the templates set up by recent remakes of period favorites such as Halloween, Friday the 13th, and My Bloody Valentine. Instead of repackaging a familiar tale for contemporary audiences, director Ti West’s film revisits the era in a surprisingly fresh and authentic way.

Bearing a striking resemblance to Suspiria-era Jessica Harper, newcomer Jocelin Donahue plays Sam, a New England college student desperate for rent money so she can escape her roommate from hell. When she sees ads for a babysitter around campus, she thinks she may have found her salvation. »

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Ti West on-line: Exclusive Dead & Lonely pics, Twitter chat

26 October 2009 1:57 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Fango got ahold of a couple of exclusive photos (see them below) from Dead & Lonely, his on-line series for IFC that debuts today. It’s a big week for West, who will also be taking part in a live Twitter chat to promote the theatrical release in select cities beginning this Friday, October 30 of his latest feature The House Of The Devil.

In Dead & Lonely, which West wrote, produced and directed, a pair of lonely Los Angelenos, Lee (Paige Stark) and Justin (Justin Rice), meet up after she answers his ad on the DateOrDie.net website—only Justin doesn’t know at first that Lee is a vampire. Additional episodes will premiere every day this week at 12 noon Est/Pst; you can check out the series here. West’s Twitter chat takes place this Thursday, Oct. 29 from 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Pst; to follow it, log on to Twitter, »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)

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Excl: House of the Devil 's Jocelin Donahue

26 October 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »

If you're not familiar yet with actress Jocelin Donahue, you soon will be. After making her debut in J.T. Petty's The Burrowers , she's now playing the lead in Ti West's latest critically acclaimed film The House Of The Devil . Evoking the beauty and look of a young Jessica Harper, while channeling the innocence of Jamie Lee Curtis' Laurie Strode from Halloween , it's easy to see why West chose her to be the character whose shoulders his latest film rests upon. Shock Till You Drop got the chance to chat with her candidly about the making of the movie, the films she used as "homework" and playing opposite genre vets Tom Noonan and Mary Woronov. Robg.: How'd this project come to you? I know you'd worked with Jt Petty on The Burrowers and both he and Ti (West)... »

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Movie Poster of the Week: "The House of the Devil"

23 October 2009 7:29 AM, PDT | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »

I love this poster for Ti West's blandly titled but reportedly quite impressive horror flick The House of the Devil most of all for its perfectly realized retro look. Already available on VOD and coming to theaters next Friday, The House of the Devil is an ’80s-set babysitter-in-peril movie shot in echt ’80s style and starring newcomer Jocelin Donahue, the great Tom Noonan, Warhol superstar Mary Woronov, and mumblecore darling Greta Gerwig. The posters for the film (and there are a few) complete the stunt, with their old school look, faded edges and faked fold lines. They were designed by L.A. design studio Kellerhouse, whose superb work has graced many a Criterion DVD cover (including the award-winning Mishima box) and who were, I only just discovered, also responsible for one of the other best movies posters of 2009, The Girlfriend Experience. The poster below is, I believe, the official »

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The House of the Devil – Ciff Quickcard Review

23 October 2009 3:00 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »

Quickcard Review – Chicago International Film Festival Review

The House of the Devil

Directed by: Ti West

Cast: Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, Greta Gerwig

Running Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Rating: R

Release Date: October 30, 2009 (Limited)

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Plot: Sophomore in college Samantha (Donahue) gets a babysitting job at a strange house located deep in the woods. She slowly discovers that the owners don’t want her just for security work.

Who’S It For? Horror junkies, but the old school breed who are content with boring stories that fumble their climactic delivery of the goods.

Overall

Congratulations, House of the Devil writer/director Ti West. You’ve managed to make an homage to all of the sub-par horror movies of the 80’s, whilst repeating their mediocrity and adding nothing of your own to their legacy. Somehow you’ve managed to stretch what could’ve »

- Nick Allen

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Ciff 2009: The winners! And our reviews

22 October 2009 6:39 PM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »

Tina Mabry's "Mississippi Damned," an independent American production, won the Gold Hugo as the best film in the 2009 Chicago International Film Festival, and added Gold Plaques for best supporting actress (Jossie Thacker) and best screenplay (Mabry). It tells the harrowing story of three black children growing up in rural Mississippi in circumstances of violence and addiction. The film's trailer and an interview with Mabry are linked at the bottom.

Kylee Russell in "Mississippi Damned"

The win came over a crowed field of competitors from all over the world, many of them with much larger budgets. The other big winner at the Pump Room of the Ambassador East awards ceremony Saturday evening was by veteran master Marco Bellocchio of Italy, who won the Silver Hugo as best director for "Vincere," the story of Mussolini's younger brother. Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Filippo Timi won Silver Hugos as best actress and actor, »

- Roger Ebert

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