Acensbart
Excellent but underrated film
Mathilde the Guild
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
nicolerastelli
THIS WAS THE WORST MOVIE EVER !!!! least to say what a waste of time, no plot not even a slight thrill, don't waste your only day off by occupying your time with this piece of crap!!!! actors were more then annoying, whoever had this idea for a "movie" needs to reevaluate the process format and climax... oh wait there isn't one. I never write reviews but this terrible film required me to warn others because of how disappointed I actually am. I would chose sitting in silence over this.
Nigel P
A group of friends are making a dedicated trip round as many haunted houses as they can, and their experiences get more and more extreme with mannequins and human attractions that appear not only to take their parts far too seriously, but actively appear to 'live' them. And yet the group solider on because of one of their number's inexplicable passion for the project. Such a passion drives this and many, many other horrors – without the implausibility of pursuing something obviously dangerous, there would be no sustained jeopardy. 'Now we have the chance to do something really cool, so just relax' isn't exactly a reassuring statement given the circumstances.So while the bull-headed 'character with camera' has become a necessary staple of (most) found-footage films (Found Footage Syndrome - FFS?), it's the fact that his friends go along with him that is difficult to rationalise. And yet despite this implausibility, 'The Houses October Built' is a tremendous fright-fest. Haunted houses, one after another, each resplendent with its own family of ghouls, freaks, lunatics, clowns and mannequins saturate the viewer in grotesquery; there is little let-up. The world becomes a line-up of the staggering, murderous and chuckling depraved.Hillbillies, the scapegoat of horrors from 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' to 'Wrong Turn' and beyond, are the suggested inbred monsters here.Although identities don't break free from the costumes and masks, and personalities are removed, things become increasingly dangerous for our thrill-seekers. And, let's be honest, it doesn't end well for them. The idea of 'found-footage' is stretched into the realms of impossibility with us actually seeing the characters buried alive, each in their own individual caskets. This would suggest a multitude of webcams, and that the characters must break free, for the footage to become available to view! But don't let implausibility worry you; this is fine, depraved, worrying horror. Of all the skull-bearing lunatics and other assorted creatures, the most effective is a doll-like girl. Only on screen for a few brief scenes, she steals the show. Her posture, awkward movements and unearthly shrieking is enough to dish out true nightmares on her own.
Mek Torres
The Houses October Built is another found-footage movie that's documenting a number of haunted house attractions until they visit the scariest one out there, but then realized that they're being followed by the actors of the attractions. This could be a solid concept for a fun horror schlock and to be fair the costumes of these strange people can be creepy. Even to this day, we tend to admire this practical horror, but the problem immediately lies on the technique. It never works, the camera tries its hardest to be inept, because ineptitude equals realism, apparently. But its incoherence is what makes this supposed simple horror film thoroughly unwatchable, no matter what commentary they try to put through, it still makes no sense.The opening and some moments, probably every ten minutes or so, features a number of interviews from those who visited the attractions. Showcasing those attractions are basically like those you see on Youtube, except the camera-work is purposely trying to make us not see the exhibits as possible. But the real horror comes is when the monsters from the ride start following them. That can be creepy in some sorts, but we immediately segues to some of the most uninteresting characters that you may commonly see in this genre. I mean really, what arc and what personality will we ever identify these people? The movie enjoys spinning wheels to them and there is still nothing exciting or likable about them.The least dragging parts are whenever they encounter their enemies, like they just appear from nowhere, but even there they get things wrong. The continuity of these scenes are vague, yeah it's found-footage, but who's shooting this? Also, why are these people so bad at shooting these things? More specifically, the ones that are supposed to be scary. Are they trying to do the Jaws approach where less is more, except they have to be annoyingly awful at shooting stuff? I'm sure they're no professional documentarians, but why? Yeah, I complain about some well- shot found-footage films, but there was a time when this genre manages to be convincing by just shaking the camera while capturing the visuals right. In fact, if these people are trying to follow this "realistically amateur" filmmaking approach, then why are their microphones sound so perfect? I can nitpick whatever I want, BUT WHY CAN'T THESE PEOPLE SHOOT ANYTHING RIGHT?!Alright, the few good things: the little girl is kinda legitimately creepy. The editing does get needlessly gimmicky with the camera glitches (is the girl an alien or something?), but yeah, she must stay away from me as far as possible. I couldn't tell if the acting is any good since the movie didn't give me any chance to get sucked into the writing. The costumes are effectively eerie and it's possible to get terrified by those whenever they try to attack the main characters, if only they were shot right.The Houses October Built is your standard found-footage, and when I say standard, as in the ones that are just too lazy to make any novelty scares and it's a shame because a bunch of costumed Halloween people has potential of being at least creepy, and how they're designed is kind of promising (needs more killer giant rabbit.) But again, the plot makes no sense, the characters are dry empty and the camera-work is one of the reasons why found-footage should be a crime now. These ideas could work actually, I wouldn't mind having some guy holding a camera being chased by masked psychopaths, but again, lead it to the professionals. The Houses October Built is just a boring mess. And the title cards also countdown to the day when climax happens, which rather felt like a number of tortures you'll have to take from its ultimate ineptitude and unwatchability. And it doesn't give you any worthy payoff, either. I guess that's the real horror they're trying to offer.
atinder
The house October built 2015Not sure want to make of this , I thought it had a decent plot at first There some good haunted house scenes but when the really scary stuff happens to them Well it was not scary or it was just really odd and not in a good way .Most of time I was thinking it all a big hoax but it's wax not , I wish it Was.I don't understand why those peolpe were doing what they were doing I felt like I missed a part of a movie.Acting was just annoying 3 out of 10
