NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

LeonLouisRicci This is quite a slick looking low-budget entry that is nothing if not well shot. It is a combination of Slasher, Home Invasion, Psychological Movies that has nothing new to offer. A sleek vista of external pretty structures and people who can be extremely ugly internally.This is finely acted and the killings are brutal and there is an air of tension but it all seems rather vapid considering all the carnage with some incestuous carnal knowledge that is hardly explored or explained.It is so thinly written and the short running time hardly allows for much in-depth display of interesting complex psychopathy. The Movie moves along with some intrigue but it is all as anorexic as the supposedly alluring and sexy dominatrix.After all, it is worth a view for fans of perversion and playful and detached sociopaths who look like the ordinary, well groomed neighbors who may live on your block in the last house on the left. The original owners should have put a panic room in the cellar. View with low expectations and you might find this OK from a first time Director that has a better eye for architecture than the arcane or so called Cult Movies.

MBunge Nepotism is not exactly an unknown occurrence in show business. There's a legion of folks who've gotten the chance to act, write, sing or direct because they happen to be related to someone who, at that moment, is something of a star. Well, out of that number there aren't many who made a more pitiful effort at it than Andrew Paquin. Open House is a psychological thriller that has all the tension of a wet noodle in a driving rain and is as psychologically complex as a 3 month old puppy. This is the product of someone imitating other films that he's seen but not understood.Before I get into the incompetent guts of this movie, let me point out that Tricia Helfer is a great example here of being two steps on the wrong side of the line that separates slim from "really needs to eat a baked potato". I mean, if you're shooting an actress from the front and you can clearly see the outline of sternum in her décolletage, she's too skinny. If you're shooting her from the back and you can clearly make out both the top and bottom of her shoulder blades as they move around, she's too skinny. When an actress has to do a scene in a bikini, as Helfer does here, does no one check her out a week in advance to make sure she doesn't look like someone who's recovering from a severe illness? I know body image is a horrible albatross around the neck of women in visual media, but somebody needed to step in here and force Paquin to delay the bikini scene for a few days so Helfer could go have a few good meals. She's an attractive woman and seeing her like this both makes you feel bad for her and angry at the industry that makes her look that way.Open House starts out as the story of Alice (Rachel Blanchard), a woman who's either soon-to-be, in-the-middle-of-getting or just-got divorced. That the film neither seems to know nor care which state of marital severance Alice is in sort of says it all for the care and craft being put to work here. Alice is trying to sell the home she used to share with her now/recently/soon to be ex-husband (Stephen Moyer) when a killer shows up and takes her prisoner. While Alice is stuffed into a basement crawl space, the killer (Brian Geraghty) and a sexy but too thin blonde (Tricia Helfer) start living in Alice's home and murdering people for kicks. The blonde doesn't know that Alice is still alive and Open house pretty quickly becomes all about how the killer is caught between these two women.I suppose the acting here is fine and the direction looks okay, though it's obvious that Paquin is just mimicking stuff from other films without knowing why those filmmakers did what they did the way they did it. The dialog is also unmemorable but unobjectionable. The plot and underlying structure of this story, however, is simply atrocious. It's established early on that the killer does not want to hurt Alice and will go to great lengths to avoid killing her, which sucks any drama or threat out of their relationship. I'd say for at least 60 or 70 of this movie's 88 minute length, there's not even a hint that Alice is in any imminent danger.And since Brian Geraghty as the killer shows all the personality of Star Trek:TNG's Mr. Data running on one-quarter battery power and none of the three main characters have enough sustained interaction to build or develop any kind of honest drama among them, you're left with a motion picture about home invading serial murders that's as exciting as a plain wheat cracker. Writer Paquin thinks he's being smart by throwing out hints about and allusions to the nature of the bond between the killer and the blonde, but you'd have to be awfully stupid not to figure out right away what he's getting at and then realize he's never going to go anywhere with it. Paquin also obviously believes that by making the main character of his movie a largely mute and impassive murderer, he's doing something clever or provocative. It isn't either of those things.This was as boring and pointless a production as I've seen in a long time. Don't be tricked by Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer being involved with it. Open House wasn't worth their time and it isn't worth yours

Scarecrow-88 Home invasion slasher about a couple of loons, immaculate, impotent David(Brian Geraghty) and sister volatile, sexy Lila(Tricia Helfer) who seem to kill the occupants of houses they move into. David makes a mistake, obviously uncharacteristic for him, he takes a hostage instead of killing her, delineating from the usual pattern, Alice(Rachel Blanchard). Lila is playful and savage, enjoys drawing blood, and will cut a person's throat without batting an eye. The only way Alice will be able to survive is if she can manipulate David into turning on Lila. The movie derives it's suspense mainly from whether or not Lila will catch David with Alice. Also, if Alice will be able to somehow get away from her captors, both David and Lila. David is a particularly interesting character because he seems absent a personality, as if a blank void replaces a soul, until we see how he reveals his feelings for Alice(although, even when we understand his blossoming desire for her, he still refrains from conveying raw emotion). Lila loves using her looks and killer body to gain an advantage over victims. There's a vicarious thrill she gets from the entire act. We see Lila invite strangers over to the house, and she seems to delight in toying with David, particularly in regards to his written work on the lap top. His resolve, the wall of calm David has built for himself, is truly tested, and clearly Lila loves teasing him. David's definitely a neat freak, everything has to be spotless and clean. What's truly warped about this brother-sister alliance is the visible incestuous side that David is resisting since meeting Alice. Lila attempts multiple times to convince David to come to her room upstairs to watch the recordings of their murderous activities(before stabbing and slicing their victims, David sets up a camcorder on a tripod to tape their gruesome handiwork)which, I guess, helps to arouse them. Anyway, OPEN HOUSE works as a psycho thriller marginally well. Don't be fooled by the cover which features TRUE BLOOD alums Moyer and fiancé Anna Paquin..they appear in minor parts, mainly because her brother Andrew directed OPEN HOUSE. Helfer is notable for her role as Starbuck from the contemporary BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. Poor Blanchard remains chained in a hole in the laundry room for most of the screen time, only let out when Lila is gone and David wants company.

M W A recently divorced woman is attempting to sell her home when two lunatics break in & murder everyone she loves or cares about in her life.There's a bit more to the story than that but im not going to ruin it.Besides you'll probably figure it out within 15 minutes anyway. Nothing groundbreaking here there are a few jolts some shocks & enough sustained tension to not bog things down & keep the movie from being too dumb or too overcooked. Open House looks crisp & moves briskly & has a lot of TV actors in lead roles which typically is disastrous for these micro movies. Anna Paquin is topped billed on this site which is understandable considering her bro is the brains behind it but unfair to Rachel Blanchard & Brian Geraghty who are 2 of 3 actors that carry this movie for its duration. The 3rd is Tricia Helfer of BSG fame who does the psycho bitch routine very well.Watch her facial expressions throughout Open House & you'll know what I mean. The only complaint I have is the end which feels rushed & unsatisfactory.However I cared enough about the victims to say a few times aww man I kinda liked that guy.Which is pretty good in my opinion because all the side actors are just lambs to the slaughter & you know it as soon as they pop up on screen.All in all Andrew Paquin is a competent writer & director who should have no problem tackling bigger mainstream movies in the future. Sidenote here I hate True Blood!Am I the only one that feels Alan Ball is slumming it?!?!? I say this only because Sookie & Bill share some screen time here. That is all go watch Open House & Enjoy but if your expecting your two favorite True Blood actors to have a big meaty part in this sorry but its just a selling point.They're screen time is extremely limited.