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So much average

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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.

This movie seems to be produced or written by a speed or death metal music fan. The writers infuse at least three characters with metal as a defining interest, yet this does not relate well to the suburban family setting.That was the confusing introduction to the primary characters.The rest of the film is slow to develop. Its difficult to tell who is possessed by what. The characters are flat, and the choices by the director for actors is odd. The primary character, a father , is heavily tattooed and resembles modern interpretations of Jesus. He listens to terrible music and paints mediocre art. His daughter is a cliche of a teeneager who listens to Metallica and dyes her hair purple. She wears the same rock and roll t-shirt get up throughout the movie. At least the costume people didn't have her wear a Ramones t-shirt as in the movie "Mama"! Total cliched people, but not relatable to a family living in a farmhouse in Texas!The plot of this movie stretches credulity, especially in the ways the local sheriff handles the crimes in this movie. A known madman allowed to roam around freely and stay at a local motel? The known suspect from a serial murder spree not monitored though he lives in a town of less than 1000 people?Its difficult to take this movie seriously. There's the requisite religious imagery that is so popular today in horror films, and chanting voices and of course death metal, but all this thematic effort is overplayed and wasted. The CGI fire scenes are not convincing and the injuries sustained by the protagonists should be fatal!Horror fans have got to expect more from productions like this; cosmetic flourishes and iconic imagery combined with "edgy" characters does not a movie make.

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.

Now, see, this is what a Rob Zombie movie should be.Definitely one of the most effective and satisfying horror movies of the past several years. While it's not perfect, it hit ALL it needed to and never overstayed its welcome.What started off as a roll-of-my-eyes quickly redeemed itself as the plot veered far away from the old horror movie tropes. A family moves into a bargain of a house after a murder had taken place. Not your average, every day murder, but that's the whole point.Naturally, they family (Mom, Dad, Teen) are not well off, but they got some artistic dreams. While the father hears stirs of echoes in his head, the most obvious creepy stalker of kids finds this teen as his latest obsession.There's a lot going on in the plot, but mercifully, the straight arrow – the one most interesting to follow – is on target to get this nicely wrapped up with an ending I always crave, though rarely see. Highly recommended. It feels small, low budget and simultaneously ambitious with what they were provided. Definitely a must for horror fans. Totally rocks!***Final thoughts: Here's another I missed during my horror-movie-month obsession of October. Luckily it FINALLY came available on Netflix, and I glad I saw it, even if just a bit outside October.