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Wow! Such a good movie.

Fantastic!

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

I am so sad, that I could have been doing something else. Run, don't walk, away from this horrible horror film.

It was not too bad, but neither good... Nothing new, nothing special. A bit boring at the end. I watch often horror movies - There are lots of better ones!

Saw this recently on a DVD. Got enticed by the trailer n had seen the director's film, Indigenous which was decent. A short review should b something like this, full of clichés, absurd dialogues, not scary, moments of tension n suspense r almost zero, no good kills n repetitive scenes of apparitions n demonic levitation eventually reducing the scare factors. The demon is shown very powerful but u have to see the ending... a total letdown. On a good note, the effects r good. The designs of the demons were pretty interesting. Use of both lighting and color give this film a macabre tone, which works in its favor. Sharni Vinson looks extremely tired and skinny. Her eye bags were very visible in some scenes. Ther have been decent movies in the past where the movie changes genre; Psycho, Malevolence, Dead birds, From dusk till dawn, Livid, Frontiers, etc. Also where the criminals/intruders meet more powerful match; Don't breathe, Intruders, Siren, Gallows hill, Whisper, etc.

The "criminals who become victims" concept has always been popular in horror cinema (Don't Breathe is a recent example I liked), and that might be because it adds an unexpected moral ambiguity which questions our perception regarding "good" and "evil" ones. And, on a more visceral sense, it creates an "instantaneous karma" sensation in which the criminals receive their punishment... even though we would like to see them escape sometimes). From a House on Willow Street follows that formula, but its main problem is that co-screenwriter Alaistar Orr (who is also the director), Jonathan Jordaan (sic) and Catherine Blackman reveal the kidnapped girl's secret too quickly, decreasing the tension and taking us through a prefabricated route which doesn't adequately exploit the "surprise factor". Besides, it's too obvious who the default "hero" (heroine, in this case) will be from the beginning; fortunately, that character is played by Sharni Vinson, whose work in horror cinema during the last 5 years (Bait, You're Next and Patrick: Evil Awakens) has made her become a versatile "scream queen" with an adequate emotional deepness. Vinson's scenic presence and credible reactions keep us moderately entertained despite the questionable narrative decisions and weak coincidences in which her character is involved. I will probably end up forgetting From a House on Willow Street as soon as I finish writing this review, but it didn't bore me, and I can give it a slight recommendation, mainly due to the gore and the presence of an actress whose affinity for the horror genre can rescue mediocre movies, such as... this one. We are still on time to redeem the "scream queen" term, and Vinson is one of the actresses capable of achieving it (other good alternatives: Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Anya Taylor-Joy).