La casa del diablo

Tensión construida honestamente. Hoy en día, ya no estamos acostumbrados a ver un juego de terror tan puro (las actividades paranormales son impresionantes, pero son una porquería). La película supera a todas las casas y amityville, y rinde homenaje a una etapa histórica del género en las huellas de los años 80 perfectamente capturadas. Es una pena que la conclusión a la que se dirige con tanta concentración y con tantas expectativas crecientes en el espectador, al final no logra satisfacer. (05.12.2011)

This is the kind of stuff I can really love every now and again! A fantastic recreation of the atmospheric occult horror movies from the turn of the 1970s and 80s; from the music, through the credits, to certain nice screenplay tropes (What does the heroine do in a key moment? Yes,… – I don’t want to spoil it). If you’re used to modern horror with a cheap jump-scare every five minutes to keep your attention, this film will be hell, in the good and bad sense of the word – it depends on how you take it. The atmosphere is built with long shots of the heroine slowly walking through an empty cottage, with nothing but oppressive music and a weird noise here and there – and no jump-scares. Some people will fall asleep with this (most viewers, I think), but others will feel as tense as a violin string. Given the rating, which group I belong to is obvious. The more viewer friendly and action packed last fifteen minutes are fairly over the top in a nice way, but they don’t surpass the atmospheric inferno of the second act. (31.10.2009)

It is such a strange horror that can completely knock you out with its stylization, or leave you cold and you will watch it simply because it is a relatively original horror. There are silent moments, but there are good ideas here that overall create a peculiar image that will certainly not leave you indifferent. (11.12.2014)