House Hunting (2013)

Waste of time

People are voting emotionally.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I found this movie on Netflix, I really wasn't expecting it so be as good as It was.House Hunting is an interesting movie. Two families are tricked into getting stuck in a purgatory like state on 70 acres of land (which is a great deal by the way!), and must work together to get out alive, unfortunately for them, working together couldn't go any worse than it did. Actually, working together didn't go all that bad either because the last thing these people do is anything productive to figure out what the heck is going on.It was definitely worth it, It didn't even make it to the movie theaters, it was released to DVD when it came out.Overall I give it a 8/10.House Hunting was definitely worth the watch.

I don't agree with the reviewers who thought the premise wasn't anything new: the movies I've seen where people can't escape from a place are usually set-ups by a diabolical character/psychopath who's deliberately trapped them there, and we know that from the beginning. Not so with "House Hunting."Part of what kept me watching (along with great performances by all) was the question of who or what malevolent force was confining the two families and providing them with sustenance in the form of cans of no-brand beef stew, one can per person, with the number diminishing as the characters die or kill each other off. Is it the house itself, its evil incarnated in the creepy "realtor" and the chirpy recorded voices that provide a guide to the property, over and over? (The ending -- I watched the last 30 sec. three times -- provides an answer, but I won't give it away.) And what's the point of having the two male leads hold conversations with alternate versions of themselves? The pacing was excellent, by which I mean that the audience doesn't figure it out any faster than the characters themselves. Despite holes and questions, this was a very satisfying trope on the descent-into-madness movie that starts from the most mundane of activities -- house-hunting -- so if you don't need everything neatly tied up at the end, I would say, go for it.

A strange supernatural barrier prevents two house-hunting families from leaving the estate of a house they visited. Whenever they try to leave, they always find themselves back at the front door. This is certainly a good premise for a horror movie. It would be ideal for an episode of The Twilight Zone, but Rod Sterling would have properly milked the implications of the premise. The two families, which seethe with tensions and secrets, seem to accept to readily their imprisonment. They don't bother to explore the most basic questions. Why specifically are they trapped in the house? Do they have any links to the place or each other? More importantly, they also have a survivor from a previous imprisonment with them. Although she had been rendered mute by the removal of her tongue, she is intelligent and certainly able to communicate, but they don't even bother to ask her questions for the most part. Still, the film manages to convey some tension and suspense. It also benefits from some good performances. However, it falls apart completely at the end. Near the end we discover that at least one member of each family had some connection to the family that originally lived in the house. Unfortunately, that ruins the film because it ends with two more families being drawn into the building. Did both of those families also wrong the original occupants? What about the two families that we trapped in the house prior to the start of this film. Did they also wrong the original occupants? It doesn't make sense that all of those people have a personal connection to the spirits in the house.

You quickly realize from the opening scenes that you're in for a badly acted and predictable horror flick. The plot idea of being held captive in a house by a mysterious controlling force is kinda cool, but it soon gets old with bad direction and unrealistic acting. No real surprises, plenty of senseless dying, and several annoying clichés popping up that you'll soon recognize when you see it. On the positive side, if you enjoy this film, then lucky for you, there's no doubt a huge back log of films you have yet to discover in the same genre. Luckily when the movie finished, there was a re-run of 'Hart To Hart' on the TV, so the night wasn't a complete loss. I give it 2 stars for the story idea and 1 star for the canned stew that kept on giving.