House (2008)
Product Description:
Best selling authors Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti transform their supernatural novel into the thrilling film House. The film follows Jack (Reynaldo Rosales, TV’s "Medium”) and Stephanie Singleton (Heidi Dippold, HBO’s "The Sopranos”), a self-absorbed couple who get sidetracked on their way to a counseling session. After blowing out their tires, they find their way to the Wayside Inn, a ramshackle B &B where they meet an equally self-obsessed couple. The foursome quickly find themselves terrorized by a household of ghoulish servants and a masked lunatic, known as "The Tin Man” (Michael Madsen, Kill Bill: Vol. 2), who demands a dead body by sunrise. Their only way out, it seems, is to venture further in. But the deeper they go, the more horrifying the killer’s game and their night becomes. House is "a suspenseful psychological roller coaster ride” (MovieJungle.com) that will keep you pinned to the edge of your seat! ~from Amazon.com
Based on the supernatural novel by Bestselling Christian authors Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti, House is a tale of punishment and redemption that will keep you pinned to the edge of your seat. This thriller tells the story of a struggling couple who have grown apart since the untimely death of their daughter. But when they become trapped inside a mysterious house guarded by a killer who calls himself "The Tin Man" (Michael Madsen), they are forced to confront the most disturbing secrets of their past. ~from Christianbook.com
Rated R. for some violence and terror. Approx. 88 minutes.
My Review:
A best-selling Christian Triller and Horror book, House, by Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti, has now become a movie, setting a standard for more Christian movies in this genre. Jack and Stephanie, a couple struggling with their marriage and guilt from their child dying, end up at a hotel with a killer that tells them "The wages of sin is death." Randy and Leslie also run over metal in the road that pops their tires and forces them into the House. The House is haunted in such a way that it shows them their sins and wants to make them pay. The killer, the Tin Man gives them the "rules" of the House:
1. I came into this house and killed God.
2. I will kill anyone that comes into my house the same way I killed God.
3. Give me one dead body by sunrise and I will let rule #2 slide.
Along with his accomplices, Betty, Stewart and Pete, he terrorizes Jack, Stephanie, Randy and Leslie with the presence of his evil. The occupants of the house leak black smoke and someone returns to life after one of them is killed, showing that they are not quite human. There is another person in the house, a young girl Susan, who while appearing scary at first turns out to be the good person who can show them the "Light" that will overcome the evil. While of course the killer and the occupants of the House are the evil ones, they are right about "the wages of sin is death." They are just killers and sinners themselves also. The people do have to die or have someone sacrifices in their place to pay for their sins. So brings up the idea of Jesus and our redemption through Him. The movie didn't get very far with that though, just showing that the light can overcome darkness. But in the book it is made so much clearer at the end. Also the end of the movie is different from the book, which makes for a strange ending that not everyone will agree with.
Overall I give the movie 4 out of 5 stars. Very good for a Christian horror movie.
You can buy the movie here: http://www.amazon.com/House/dp/B001R10BIW/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1238799063&sr=8-1
You can also buy the book, it is more in-depth and explains a lot more than the movie does, explaining more clearly the Christian aspects of sin, punishment and redemption.
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