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2022
R
Saban Films
1 h 28 m

2022
R
Saban Films
1 h 28 m

Summary Driving home to her secluded estate after meeting at a local bar, a player (Justin Long) out to score thinks his beautiful, mysterious date (Kate Bosworth) will be another casual hook-up. While getting acquainted, their flirtation turns playful, sexy and sinister. Hoping to get lucky, his luck may have just run out.

Directed By: Neil LaBute

Written By: Neil LaBute

2022
R
Saban Films
1 h 28 m

2022
R
Saban Films
1 h 28 m

House of Darkness

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews

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User Score Mixed or Average Based on 8 User Ratings

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Summary Driving home to her secluded estate after meeting at a local bar, a player (Justin Long) out to score thinks his beautiful, mysterious date (Kate Bosworth) will be another casual hook-up. While getting acquainted, their flirtation turns playful, sexy and sinister. Hoping to get lucky, his luck may have just run out.

Directed By: Neil LaBute

Written By: Neil LaBute

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Top Cast

Kate Bosworth

Mina Murray

Justin Long

Hap Jackson

Gia Crovatin

Lucy Murray

Lucy Walters

Nora Murray

Joy Conly

Shadow Figure

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Metascore

Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews

42% Positive
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42% Mixed
5 Reviews

17% Negative
2 Reviews

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Metascore

Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews

42% Positive
5 Reviews

42% Mixed
5 Reviews

17% Negative
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Sep 9, 2022

LaBute rewards patient viewers with two amazing lead performances, crackling dialogue, and genuine suspense. While the film might be flawed, it is imminently watchable.

By Bobby LePire FULL REVIEW

Sep 5, 2022

LaBute is meticulously escalating the danger by providing Hap his wildest dreams in a way that reveals to the audience how their ability to come true is reliant upon him losing control.

By Jared Mobarak FULL REVIEW

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75% Mixed
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25% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 8 User Ratings

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25% Negative
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Oct 30, 2023

House of Darkness is boring as hell yet exciting a lot too. Justin Long and Kate Bosworth were enough for me to watch but I didn't think that it will be so dull. But at the same time, this two make you wonder "what is gonna happen at the end?". And it was obvious.

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Oct 25, 2022

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

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Austin Chronicle

Sep 8, 2022

Few can write this kind of acid-dripping parlor drama with as much bite as LaBute.

By Richard Whittaker FULL REVIEW

Sep 9, 2022

As a whole, House of Darkness is a very mixed bag of a film. The script shifts from nuanced to blunt depending on what minute you're watching, but the central performances add a layer of complexity that's often worth watching.

Sep 8, 2022

Where Josh Ruben’s Scare Me soars thanks to tension delivered through imaginative monologues, LaBute’s latest is mostly benign chatter that rambles its way to an unimpressively expected conclusion.

By Matt Donato FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

Sep 8, 2022

Here is House of Darkness anyway, a talky, allegorical horror film that delivers plenty of LaBute’s typically sharp irony and observations but little raison d’être. It is sometimes insightful, just not about women, who outnumber the men three to one.

By Austin Considine FULL REVIEW

Oct 4, 2022

This feels like something LaBute wrote in an afternoon on the notes app on his smartphone while thinking about something else.

By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

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Feb 21, 2024

Wow. This was so boring! Literally just…dialogue. Just the dude babbling on about nothing. No action. No suspense. No nothing!

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Sep 16, 2022

WHAT? f I wanted to relive 80 minutes of stilted, uncomfortable, awkward post pick up dialogue just to have it end badly....I have my personal memories from my **** really what I'm looking for in a vampire movie

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Production Company SSS Entertainment, SSS Film Capital

Release Date Sep 9, 2022

Duration 1 h 28 m

Rating R

Genres

Tagline "Once upon a time ..."

Website https://www.sabanfilms.com/films/house-of-darkness/

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Awards

Fantasia Film Festival

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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