The Big Box: "The House of the Devil"
What's this? An episode of "The Big Box" spotlighting a new release? Who would have ever thought that would happen!
Also, coming next week on the site, I shall be interviewing "Comin At Ya 3-D" star Tony Anthony!! Very cool!
Also, coming next week on the site, I shall be interviewing "Comin At Ya 3-D" star Tony Anthony!! Very cool!
dame it I bought that movie on DVD I wish i knew it was on a big box VHS
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Dame it I just bought the house of the devil on DVD I wish I knew It came in a big box VHS
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Great review, Vic.
I love a good random 80's 'doing things around the house' montage.
And the lead chick in this totally looks like an early 80's 'final girl'. Kind of like Margot Kidder or Amy Steel.
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Not just any 80's doing things around the house montage, but that's from A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2 Freddy's Revenge.
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This is, perhaps, the best BIG BOX yet!
Made me laugh out loud 4 times.
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Jesse was so fuckin straight hahaha
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This may be blasphemy (and it may not even be a montage) but Elisabeth Shue in Adventures in Babysitting is absolutely top. The part where she sings along to The Crystals is the best part of the movie.
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I tell ye right now you ought to do more company history things like this. I remember going to http://www.critcononline.com/video_companies_cover_art.htm and spending many hours reading and looking.
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God I hated this movie. Hitchcockian suspense is just a filler word for so fucking boring id rather take the big box models curling iron and jam it up my ass and pull it out my eye socket.
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Great review Vic, I think we all sometimes want to return in the 80s with it's music and movies but not games. Fan of the 8bit era but love the new era.
But horror movies really lack suspense and attachment to the main characters this days. They are just cannon fodder for the slasher and it's clear they want us to feel great when a douchebag character is killed that we start rooting for the killer.
Great episode and awesome throwback movie.
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I second the idea of you/Brad doing a video company history segment. Great idea.
This flick looks pretty great too.
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Good job Vic...loved the NOES 2 homage eerr excuse for Jilian to dance around...btw, who is her black and white feline sidekick?
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Yes, A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge is an awesome movie indeed.
And that other movie seems like fun as well..
Keep em' coming!
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Cool! Tom Noonan, the original (and scarier) Francis Dollarhyde. He always makes a good creepy villian.
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Looks like a fun movie. Fun review and loved the Elmstreet 2 bit
Best Elmstreet movie of the bunch.
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Ah, another Big Box episode , always fun to watch. Great Job once again...though my inner Grammar Nazi can't help but notice that you list Jillin as "The Big BoG Model" XD
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If only I still had a VHS player I could enjoy the movie the way it was meant to be enjoyed. Oh well, I guess this Blu-Ray disc will have to suffice...
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Where did you ever find that song?
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I watched this movie today and it kicks ass.
But I kind of wish I hadn't seen this review first.
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The definitive 80s girls montage is the only movie to actually use Girls Just Wanna Have Fun original track: Reggie and Sam post-apocalyptic shopping spree in the mall in Night Of The Comet. My undying crush on Catherine Mary Stuart does not have any impact on saying it's the best girls doing stuff montage of the 80s. Nope, none at all.
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I really should hunker down and order this flick with the DVD/VHS combo pack since I have three VHS VCRs.
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I think he knows that, and was doing what's known as 'comedy.'
Anyway, interesting video... mostly I just keep thinking "Aw, man, this is Gillian's coolest outfit yet, I never would have thought of using a black tie for the hair," etc.
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I lament the fact only the BluRay and DVD can be bought in the UK, I want my VHS!
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Oh, also, the confused cat is an excellent actor. And "He'll pay you in Nuke" was informative and funny at the same time.
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Oh my God!!!
Cheesy eighties & satan & blood & sect & sex..
Yeah!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAA 666
Seriously - I gave up with 80s for some time since I watched Troll 2, which I think is the essence of that decade
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This movie is neither shitty, nor cheesy.
If it has anything over all the other '80's throwback' horror films of late is that it's played totally straight, with no referential irony or winking at the audience.
It's a fine little chiller than that on its own.
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I rememeber that "Gorgo" movie.
Gorgosaurus is also a scientific name that was used in the past for Albertosaurus.
NO correction intended at all, just a little trivia.
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Hold me baby
Drive me crazy
Touch me
All night long
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Well Pepsi has come out with "throwback," a resurrection of the classic Pepsi and Mountain Dew logos on their cans, a huge dose of nostalgia for me. It's awesome to see that the big box has been resurrected again.
My brother used to own a big box copy Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things. It's funny because the box says that it's rated R but it's definitely not uncut and the movie was released as PG. I'm guessing that what gave it the R rating was the trailer to Faces of Death.
I'm gonna have to see House of the Devil. Whoever made it certainly got the 80s look just right including the film used.
Oh yeah and I loved Jillian's 80s montage. That was adorable!!!
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Yes!
We finally get to see a House of the Devil video and it did not disappoint. Very funny! I totally got that Robocop 2 reference!
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Nice to see a review of this! I gave it a rent the other week, and was really surprised by how much of a throw-back it really is, really enjoyed it.
That's so fucking cool that it got a vhs release, really fitting.
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AWESOME! AWESOME! AWESOME! This is exactly what I was hoping to see on The Big Box! Plus, I loved the "Doin' Stuff Montage" set to "Touch Me (All Night Long)" by Wish, featuring Fonda Rae. (I have it on my iPod.) THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL is such a perfect horror movie, a revitalizing breath of foul air from all the remakes/re-imaginings/reboots of classic horror movies. And this VHS packaging (an Amazon.com exclusive bundle with the DVD by the way) really goes along with the homage of the movie itself. As The Cinema Snob might say, "Did you say BRUTES AND SAVAGES?" Big Box VHS FOREVER!
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I found the bundle pack at the DiabolikDVD table at Monster-Mania Con 16 two weeks ago; I got it for $40 (2/3 the price Amazon.com offers!). To truly appreciate this movie, one must watch the VHS of THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL. The VHS really brings out the charm and the atmosphere of this fine movie! I hope to meet Ti West, Jocelin Donahue, and others involved with THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL so that I can get the VHS autographed by them!
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This truly is one of the best horror films to be released in quite some time. Everyone check this one out!
As I was watching this film I was wondering if maybe Samantha Hughes is a reference to John Hughes. He was an obviously important icon of the eighties for sure.
We miss you John. Rest in peace.
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Why do 80 m0ntages never feature stuff like Big Black or Gang of Four?
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I just got done watching this movie. I understand what they were going for but it just took too long to set everything up. This movie could have been 30 minutes long and created the same effect. They did a good job setting the time period and will agree, they did it in an unironic way. That I can appreciate. What I can't appreciate is how this movie fritters away its time. There is building suspense then there is padding. House of the Devil is mostly padding. I didn't hate the movie but it took too long to get to the point. Oh, and that ending bothered me. That same gun blew the face off her friend. But somehow she survives. And for being such a likable character, I really hated how in the end the devil wins. I think a lot of people like this movie because the current state of horror is so pathetic. But liking a movie in spite of other movies from the genre isn't really liking a movie.
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Cool! Tom Noonan, the original (and scarier) Francis Dollarhyde. He always makes a good creepy villian.
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This may well be my favorite episode of Big Box; Jillian is awesome in this one and the reaction shot of the cat during the montage had me bursting out laughing.
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I love old suspense movies from 1962's The Haunting to Black Christmas, but House of Devil suceeded in only one endeavor: mimicking a bad 70's movie. It was so much like a bad 70's movie in every way, from meandering plot to silly conclusion that it felt rather pointless to make. I digress, I do admire how they released it in a big box format. That's going the extra mile.
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Reproduced from my Netflix review of this film:
I really wish I could like this movie. Its very VERY well made. The acting is excellent (a rarity for low budget horror), the setting and costumes are fantastically 80s, and when the movie hits its stride its choice cinema. The problem is the length of time it takes to hit its stride. I understand that they were trying to build suspense, however there is a fine line between drawing out a shot to increase anticipation and lingering on EVERY shot. I wasn't tense, I wasn't in suspense, I was just bored. If I wasn't worried about missing some sudden action I would have fast forwarded through about 80% of this film, and I wouldn't have missed a thing. So, for everything other than the pacing and the editing I would give this film a solid 5 stars. But needlessly long shots taken to the Nth degree drop this film to about 3.
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To continue off of that, I do recommend this film, it is awesome-sauce in thirty forms. Just keep in mind that there is a whole lot of lingering shots designed to draw suspense (that don't really succeed, at least for me).
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