Peereddi I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Aruneshwar Singh Sometimes it takes a while for a film to fully be appreciated. After I watched the film, I gave it only a 6/10 as I felt it was okay, even though I really enjoyed it and liked the script. However, after a year has passed I thought I would come back and give it some thought and I realized that It is a really food film with a very good script and deserves to be up there with other similar horror movies of note.

crownofsprats Honestly, the fact that the dude behind the amazing The Loved Ones started out with such a solid premise - and then proceeded to squander it with an unforgivably lame and worthless anticlimactic last act - means it deserves a way worse scourging than anything half-baked executed with spirit.This brew contains some heady ingredients: Texas, Satan, art, metal, a haunted house, a fat psycho in a tracksuit... From the unflinching brutality of his other film I mentioned, you'd think this sort of setup would be taken to all sorts of demonic extremes. But all the good ideas fizzle out and go nowhere. The haunted house, for instance - the worst it ever makes our painter protagonist do is lose track of time! The most fleshed out detail in the film is the family dynamic, but even that's vague and one-dimensional. Not to mention annoying. The minor characters are bland and completely forgettable. Even a good sense of place is missing - some locations have little congruity with another. Eventually, this is all drowned out by the boring and stupidly improbable climactic act. You'd think the entire area has, like, two cops. Or that you can be shot through the torso and still manage to get up ladders and beat people with creative objects. If this movie wanted to have some family dynamics gluing it together, then it should have gone in a very different direction - and gone there all the way. But it was way too scared to go there it seems. Too bad.

GL84 Moving into a new house, an artist and his family into a remote house and slowly succumbs to a dark, sinister force within the house that affects not only his relationships with everyone else but the quality of work he starts creating which soon puts the rest of his family in extreme danger.This was quite the enjoyable and chilling effort. Among the fine points throughout here is the fact that there's a typically creepy and chilling location at the heart of the film. These films are based on the type of setting being utilized and this has a spectacular one, as the old-school wooden construction, large open spaces and general feeling of darkness seeping through the walls of the house which creates quite a strong and chilling impression. That's even before it starts in on the houses' history that includes the original backstory and the overall manifestation that pops up throughout here with the ghastly voices whispering continuously in his head that brings out the new style of painting in his artwork. The slow descent into madness he finds himself as the artwork becomes darker and far more intense inspired by the time in the house is an exceptionally enjoyable slow-burn storyline that pays off nicely here with the way it works itself out in the darker paintings he creates. When it slowly starts to dawn on everyone that he's falling into the same traps as those who were in the house before him which lets this one maintain a rather creepy feeling throughout here. Once it begins to invoke the concept of the intruder coming into their lives who invades their lives in one of the finest scenes here in his botched invasion attempt which is a chilling concept that gets utilized effectively in here and leads into the emotionally draining and charged final half which just enhances this one with a flurry of disturbing concepts, frantic action and a truly vicious streak that's fun to watch. How it plays off the brawling and stalking taking place in the burning house gives this a strong element of action while the burning walls leave a fine visual impression during that time and create a truly enjoyable and memorable image at the right time. Given that this one manages to incorporate all this into the stellar family relationship angle at the heart of it all makes for quite an impression as well, and given the fun pace and quantity of gore these here all make for quite an enjoyable time here. There isn't much to bring this down, which mostly stems from the overall lack of conventional haunted house tactics throughout here. This one goes for the subliminal in their scare tactics rather than throwing tons of jump scares out there, and that might be somewhat problematic for some who go for a more traditional pace. Otherwise, there's not much else to hold this one down.Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence and mild drug use.

henrybret-77142 This movie is amazing. No stupid twists or turns. It doesn't try to be witty or smart. It's a good ol'fashioned scary ( not horror ) movie. The acting is superb. Ethan Embry is almost unrecognizable as an Iggy Pop-esque painter / Artist. This dude did some work to get in shape, I had to pause it and think " Is this the guy that played the kid in the movie Dutch?". Pruitt Taylor Vince is amazing. He is one of the most important yet underrated actors of our time. It has a good story line that doesn't try to be too serious about its self. As a music fan, I was impressed by the soundtrack and was more impressed they got the rights to a Metallica song! In the early 90's Metallica turned down John Carpenter when he asked to use Enter Sand Man in his movie " The Mouth of madness" and Carpenter is a legend.This is a fun movie for fans of visual effects , story and sound track.