I think a lot of younger people won't like this one, but I liked The House of the Devil (2009) a LOT. This is a pretty cool homage to the great "Drive-In" horror movies of the late 1970's-early 1980's. This movie looks, and feels, as if it were released in 1981. And that's a good thing. The "opening-credit" sequence alone is a paen to several great movies of that era... The entire sequence itself is lifted directly from The Exorcist. But the music is more "techno-pop" (but still creepy!) making it look like an older Italian Horror or Giallo. And the title and opening credits flashing on the screen in big, gaudy orange letters really took me back to my drive-in days.
The story was a lot of fun, too. A very simple "comic-book" storyline with very few characters and an intense feeling of impending dread throughout. You already KNOW what is going to happen, you just don't know when or how. When it DOES happen it is a bit overwhelming and frightening even for ME! (I don't like "Satanists", they tend to be crazy...) ...
There is NO nudity in this movie (although there COULD have been some) and very little gore... A couple of brief moments of some pretty good Fulci-esque type stuff including a good "eye-gouging" and "throat-slashing" and "brains-blown-out" but that is about it. There are a few tips of the hat to the old Hammer Movies as well.
All in all a very good movie and a lot of fun and one of the best of the best I have seen recently.
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