Tribeca - House of the Devil
My first midnight movie of this year’s festival and it almost worked out. The film feels like a fairly cheap ripoff of Rosemary’s Baby, except it isn’t a cinematic masterpiece and it completely goofs the ending. The first two-thirds of the movie are actually a pretty decent, albeit slow, atmospheric thriller. There is a pretty good mix of actual threat and creepy strange things that seems to be building towards something. And then it just seems like the director gives up in the last 20 minutes and it turns into a lame slasher-esque film. There was a clear moment where the film just stops being creepy and the audience just stopped caring. I was wavering between giving it a 3 or a 4 until the end, but the crap ending earned it a 2. Sad to see the potential go to waste.