Stumbling upon the 2017 movie titled "House of Evil" by random chance here in 2023, and seeing that the movie had something that was very much reminiscent of a 1990s horror movie cover, of course my interest was caught. And while I had never heard about the movie, my love of the horror genre made me pick up the movie and give it a chance.
Writers Lorenzo Paviano and Raffaele Picchio put together a fair enough script and storyline. Sure, "House of Evil" was watchable and the storyline was adequate, but ultimately the storyline was actually a rather generic one. And it was something that I've seen in many other similar horror movies throughout my many years of watching movies. So the writers didn't really bring anything new to the genre here, nor did they revolutionize the genre with this 2017 movie.
The acting performances in "House of Evil" were fair. It was a rather small cast ensemble, so the actors and actresses had to put on all the more convincing and good performances, and I will say that the cast followed through and delivered, because it was their performances that carried the majority of the movie, as the script itself was a bit generic.
Visually then "House of Evil" wasn't impressive. Now, don't get me wrong, because I am not saying that it was a bad movie, not at all. It just wasn't a movie that was heavily reliant on special effects, neither mundane or CGI. Whatever effects, however minimalistic, that was in the movie actually played out well enough.
"House of Evil" is an atmospheric horror movie, and it doesn't rely on cheap tricks and a barrage of jump scares, and that was actually a nice thing to see in a newer horror movie for a change. And I will say that it definitely was also improving on the overall impression of the movie.
Ultimately, then I found the movie's cover/poster to actually set the movie up to be a bit more than what was delivered. I found the movie's cover rather interesting, and feel that the movie didn't really manage to live up to that.
My rating of directors Luca Boni and Marco Ristori 2017 horror movie "House of Evil" lands on a four out of ten stars.
Writers Lorenzo Paviano and Raffaele Picchio put together a fair enough script and storyline. Sure, "House of Evil" was watchable and the storyline was adequate, but ultimately the storyline was actually a rather generic one. And it was something that I've seen in many other similar horror movies throughout my many years of watching movies. So the writers didn't really bring anything new to the genre here, nor did they revolutionize the genre with this 2017 movie.
The acting performances in "House of Evil" were fair. It was a rather small cast ensemble, so the actors and actresses had to put on all the more convincing and good performances, and I will say that the cast followed through and delivered, because it was their performances that carried the majority of the movie, as the script itself was a bit generic.
Visually then "House of Evil" wasn't impressive. Now, don't get me wrong, because I am not saying that it was a bad movie, not at all. It just wasn't a movie that was heavily reliant on special effects, neither mundane or CGI. Whatever effects, however minimalistic, that was in the movie actually played out well enough.
"House of Evil" is an atmospheric horror movie, and it doesn't rely on cheap tricks and a barrage of jump scares, and that was actually a nice thing to see in a newer horror movie for a change. And I will say that it definitely was also improving on the overall impression of the movie.
Ultimately, then I found the movie's cover/poster to actually set the movie up to be a bit more than what was delivered. I found the movie's cover rather interesting, and feel that the movie didn't really manage to live up to that.
My rating of directors Luca Boni and Marco Ristori 2017 horror movie "House of Evil" lands on a four out of ten stars.