It's the baby-sitting gig from hell, and writer-director Ti West and star Jocelin Donahue make it a devil of a good time
di Robert Abele The Los Angeles Times
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and with "The House of the Devil," a baby-sitter-meets-evil gem of a movie, up-and-coming writer-director Ti West ("The Roost") shrewdly uses our entire sense memory of horror movie experiences to bring his seen-it-all audience to a jittery state of unnerving, shoe-dropping anticipation.
And in this woeful era of show gore and telegraphed shocks, West's faith in the old-school virtues of deliberately paced, nervous-laughter-inducing creep should be championed right alongside the current vogue for bump-in-the-night sleeper "Paranormal Activity. [...]
di Robert Abele, articolo completo (2670 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 30 ottobre 2009
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