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4.8/10
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A troupe of actors hired for a haunted house attraction soon find that they are working in a true house of horror.A troupe of actors hired for a haunted house attraction soon find that they are working in a true house of horror.A troupe of actors hired for a haunted house attraction soon find that they are working in a true house of horror.
- Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations
Diane Salinger
- Mrs. Darrode
- (as Diane Louise Salinger)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe script was written in 13 days.
- GoofsWhen the ghost is taking over the computer in the basement, you see it locking down the exits including closing and locking an open window. However earlier in the movie it was stated that all windows were permanently sealed shut.
- Crazy creditsNo religious artifacts and/or texts were damaged or destroyed during the making of this film.
- ConnectionsReferences The Terminator (1984)
- SoundtracksThe Dark House
Written and Performed by Bryan Ross
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Exceptionally poor script and direction
Awful movie. What's worse, it's so bad you can't make much of a judgment about the cast other than how pretty they are.
The setup is basic haunted house horror. As a child, Claire entered the Darrode House, saw something terrifying, passed out and for years since has been haunted with horrifying nightmares. As a young wannabe actor, she refuses to take medications that cut her off from her feelings. Her acting class runs an exercise of no value other than to give the audience a thumbnail stereotype of each character and then we get the horror-meister who wants to setup a reality/horror type show in the old Darrode House. Claire jumps at the chance to face her fears, buttressed by a crowd of people she knows and talks them into becoming the cast for the new show.
What follows is the most ridiculous, contrived horror-schlock that has nothing to do with the setup, no rising action, just scene after scene of hellish horror with no real context.
This was so bad that I couldn't make it through the whole thing. Not frightening and not even titillating enough to put up with how horrible it is as a motion picture. About halfway through my wife and I finally gave up on it. it's so bad that were I to have gone to see it in a walk-in theater, I would have walked out.
Someone PLEASE stop Darin Scott before he writes and directs again! Or get him some classes in screen writing and directing and a decent mentor?
The setup is basic haunted house horror. As a child, Claire entered the Darrode House, saw something terrifying, passed out and for years since has been haunted with horrifying nightmares. As a young wannabe actor, she refuses to take medications that cut her off from her feelings. Her acting class runs an exercise of no value other than to give the audience a thumbnail stereotype of each character and then we get the horror-meister who wants to setup a reality/horror type show in the old Darrode House. Claire jumps at the chance to face her fears, buttressed by a crowd of people she knows and talks them into becoming the cast for the new show.
What follows is the most ridiculous, contrived horror-schlock that has nothing to do with the setup, no rising action, just scene after scene of hellish horror with no real context.
This was so bad that I couldn't make it through the whole thing. Not frightening and not even titillating enough to put up with how horrible it is as a motion picture. About halfway through my wife and I finally gave up on it. it's so bad that were I to have gone to see it in a walk-in theater, I would have walked out.
Someone PLEASE stop Darin Scott before he writes and directs again! Or get him some classes in screen writing and directing and a decent mentor?
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- Nov 25, 2011
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Details
- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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