The Scarehouse

2014 "Revenge is a bitch"
4.5| 1h22m| en
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When two friends open a Halloween fun house on Devil's Night it is all fun and games until their former sorority sisters begin to arrive. These six sisters are confronted by their past as the night spins out of control.

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Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever
Aiden Melton The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.
Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.
draftdubya It's more entertaining to watch a monkey eat its turds than watch this. I found this crap on Showtime. Showtime and Canada should be ashamed of even being involved in this mess. The story line is so dumb you just won't care who dies. Stupid story of revenge for something so petty. I'm as liberal as can be, but I had to smack the side of my face because, my eyes rolled to the back of my head when they said "Red State"(These people are from farking Canada).
chasingimmersion I love horror movies. I also love bad horror movies. I love jump scares, gore, mind games, torture porn, naked chicks and people getting there comeuppances. I love campy dialogue, lame puns, clever innuendos and over-the-top revenge monologues. One thing I cannot abide, however, is bad writing.The Scarehouse has a terrible script with glaringly atrocious dialogue that forces the poor actors into flip-flopping over which emotion they're supposed to emote harder than Hillary flip-flops on her policy stances (ay-o! #feelthebern). The fact that this movie was written, directed AND even EDITED by the same person probably explains a lot of the problems this movie encountered.There is nothing redeeming about this movie. The entire time you're left asking yourself, "Why is this happening? Why is she scared now - she is killing them! We're crying now? Oh, no, we're scared again. Wait, nope, back to emotionless psychopath mode. Oh, never mind... Who's that? Nevermind, she's dead now..."There's no reason to care for a single character that flails about on screen, and the characters your ultimately supposed to side with are probably the least likable. Still, your disdain for these two doesn't diminish your level of apathy for any of their victims (not a spoiler, the killers are revealed almost as an introduction to the film).The choices some of these characters makes. There's no suspense in being forced to hold a running hair dryer over your head while soaking in a bathtub if you can just, I don't know, rest your elbows on the sides? Or even hang your arms outside the tub??? Also, in a 5 foot room why do you need to step closer to someone your pointing a gun at just to be precariously lined up with said bathtub? But never mind, because she isn't pushed in the tub and electrocuted, no no - she's just tackled to the ground (whereafter she just gets up and kicks the crap out of the attacker just like she had in every other scene she was in up until that point). Don't get me started on the TV death scene. Just don't. I need to stop before I think anymore about the pillow-fight scene (not even campy, just... stop).But the gore... honestly... it was so bad. Basically the camera just cuts away when something gory would have happened, then cuts back after reaction takes to a glimpse of the results (the eyelash scene was especially weak).I've already wasted too much of my life on this movie. I don't need to waste anymore of it on this review.Don't waste your time with this movie. Don't believe the positive reviews. I wouldn't even watch it again to critique it for money.I hope another movie like this is never made again.
silverscreenvacation You're going to make up your own mind, so here's what you need to know: This movie is about two badarse girls who have had a lot of time to plan sick, twisted, poetic justice upon some basic bewitches who they feel have wronged them. There is an actual plot, so don't dismiss the sorority house scenes, because the tortures that follow are not random at all. In fact, put your subtitles on, because the conversations are a bit hard to hear, and the dialogue isn't great, but they're important. I enjoyed re-watching the first few scenes after the credits. I found the flashback storyline a bit hard to follow, but it works for the movie. Have a little patience and focus, and you will be rewarded. This is a story of betrayal on a few levels, and while I saw the ending coming, I honestly didn't guess how it was going to happen. The #1 thing I would say to someone about this movie is that it will make you uncomfortable, and you won't be sure why. All sarcasm re: execution downfalls aside, and all the obvious gore and psychotic actions aside as well, it's hard to pinpoint exactly what is so squicky about this flick.I let movies take me wherever they will. This one took me to a place that was darkly and crudely funny, gruesome, good twists and some sick, twisted gore that was perhaps not as gratuitous in terms of blood and gore, but definitely more squicky than average. There are some sick geniuses behind the tortures and killings.This movie does not fit neatly into the slasher genre, nor is it cerebral enough to be called a thriller. It's Canadian. Remember the Barenaked Ladies? They're not ladies. But they're funny. But not US funny. So this movie is not what the trailer depicted, but it's disturbing. But not US disturbing.So...Sound: awesome. The timing of some of the background sounds/conversations make for good comedy and horror besides being a good backdrop.Music: Oh my god *expletive deleted* awful! There is an important scene in the movie (some would argue more than one) that gets ruined by the score.Flavor: I agree with the reviewer who said this is like Mean Girls meets Saw. I would also say it reminds me of Set It Off and, oddly, Fight Club. There is both attraction and tension between the protagonists. It's worth watching just for the interaction between the two protagonists. There are some deliciously apropos and relevant torture and kill scenes. The chunked-up story presentation is reminiscent of Pulp Fiction, and it's about as easy to follow as Mulholland Drive, but other than that the movies have nothing in common. Another Tarantino movie, Natural Born Killers, has a distant similarity in the detached, but satisfied way they kill, but again, it's otherwise a far cry. So basically it pulls from a lot of different elements, and that's maybe one of the reasons I like it: it reminds me of some of my favorites.Plot: There are no good guys. Lets get that out of the way. Another reviewer said they didn't like the movie because they didn't care about the characters because they weren't likable or something. Well, they aren't. In fact, beyond the protagonist/antagonist distinctions, it's hard to tell who the bad guys are. If you are not able to watch a movie that does not allow you to "root" for someone or form at least a slight personal attachment to a character, don't watch this. These girls are all sick in the head in their own way.They are, however, well played. The sorority girls are not well developed. However, the reasons for their suffering are quite well fleshed out, if not sane.Just take this movie for what it is: essentially a foreign film that does not fit into US categories. It's weird. It's a slightly different kind of disturbing, and you're not going to be able to put your finger on exactly why. Go to a haunted house this Halloween, then watch this movie, then go to a different haunted house. Chances are, you'll be wondering about what's going on behind the walls in a slightly different and definitely more disturbed way.
reptar300 Just by watching the trailer you can get a good idea of what this movie is going to be about. I am a big horror buff, and I enjoy even the worst B-rated horror movies. Scarehouse is definitely in that category, but it takes a swing and misses on many aspects that other B-rated movies do well.Let me say this before continuing. Horror movies lately have rarely ever made me truly feel a moment of dread, but they typically have a story you can roll your eyes at, but The Scarehouse is painful to watch even for the strongest movie buff.I wont give a synopsis since you can read it on IMDb, but I will say that it's a petty story of revenge. The movie looks like it was done on a budget, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. The setting fits very well for the direction the story wanted to go in. I did enjoy that there were no moments when I couldn't see what was happening and there are never any moments that purposely attempt to make you jump. That is about the only place this movie shines at. The acting honestly is not bad. All the actress did a believable job for a horror movie of this class, but the short roles of the male actors felt unrehearsed and thrown together to quickly. The problem with this movie is its terrible story telling. You are given bits and pieces of past events through out the movie, and by time the climax comes it still doesn't feel like any of the actions are justified even slightly. The whole movie plays out like an emotional teenagers diary. I usually don't mind revenge tales, but this one just didn't pull me in.FINAL VERDICT: For a horror movie the lead actresses are the only reason you may stay. The performance is not Oscar worthy, but I did not find myself hating it. The story is poorly done and ruins any possible chance of enjoying this movie. Mixed with torture and a late climax you're better off watching paint dry for the evening.