At the House of Madness (2008) watch online HD

I've never watched a movie before that played it's trailer before the feature film. That was a bit offputting and weird, because I thought that the movie had started and was inexplicably jumping around in the story to create a sense of confusion and chaos.

Sarah's accent is very poorly done and amateurish that I cannot tell from which country the character is meant to hail.

So, the metal detector worked without 9 volt batteries. What was the source of it's power? Magic? Yeah, this plot device wasn't working for me at all, because the scene on the beach was anti-climactic, the acting was flat and uninteresting, and there was no build-up of cinematic tension. We have no idea who Tracy is, why she was at the beach, how she knew to be there, what the book is, or why we should even care about her or the action in that scene. I am confused.

How are the pages in the spell book not completely rotten, wet, blurred, or otherwise damaged from spending who knows how long buried in the sand? This is asking me to suspend my disbelief way too much.

Every single actor and actress in this film delivers their lines with little conviction, emotion, or facial expression. I'm just not invested in anyone, don't care about them, and I'm bored to tears.

Tracy reading the Necronomicon over a cup of coffee is kind of funny.

I missed something over the next few minutes, because Tracy suddenly goes crazy and kills the guy who was helping her find out more about the spell book. She now has a semi-psychopathic grin on her face and her hair is disheveled, because messy hair totally means cray-cray.

There are way too many long stretches of action which do not advance the plot and have absolutely no dialogue. I'm already fighting sleep and the movie is only 25 minutes in.

A hacksaw cutting through human flesh and bone would not sound anything like the sound effects put into the dismemberment scene. The sound effects sound like a log being slowly sawed while popcorn is popping in the distance and someone is popping small gauge bubble wrap.

The swarming flies are ripped straight out of The Amityville Horror. Lame! Find your own strange phenomena to demonstrate that something weird is going on. Furthermore, pick up the pace, skip every scene that does not advance the plot, and the truly terrible acting are putting me to sleep *nods off*.

Relative or not, who in their right mind would show up on someone's doorstep unannounced and expect to be taken in for an overnight stay late at night? Weird. Maybe we are supposed to gather that the young blonde girl with green hair is herself weird simply by virtue of her unnatural hair color, tattoos, and multiple piercings? Gee, how stereotypical.

Never before have I been some completely and utterly bored with a low- budget "bad movie" that I fully fell asleep. Twice. Snoozefest!

Donna Hamblin is SinSational in this Macabre Mixture of Horrifying Tales !!! There's a unique Dummy, Necromancy, & a Less than Cordial Saint, as well as Deanna Meske & Pam Smith Supplying some Much Needed Beauty in these Extremely Dark Vignettes. No Nudity; But Plenty of the Shedding of Skin & Lives !!! Ms. Hamblin Really Stands Out Portraying a Slightly Off-Kilter Woman, as Only a Tremendous Talent, such as Hers, Can !!! YOU'd Be "MAD" not to Jump at the Opportunity to See this Future "Cult Classic" !!!

Kudos to Mr. Sessions. I don't care what they say, his films are enjoyable to me. As a fan of these low and no budgeters, I gotta give props to the makers.

Some of the stories are better than others, my favorite was the one with the dummy. Mostly because I thought the actor in it was the best of the bunch. Also, some of the ladies were pretty which helps a lot.

Negatives: some of the dialog was plain boring and some segments dragged. The effects were passable. The "washed" or whatever it is called was distracting at times.

Overall: a solid time waster.

In the house of madness is an anthology film (well sort of if you consider two stories an anthology)

The wrap around story is about a couple that are struggling to sell their house and the two stories that make up this film explain the reason why. This segment stars Deanna Meske who went on to assemble quite a list of genre titles in her filmography.

The 1st story stars Donna Hamblin (Also a bit of a scream queen in the low budget genre field). She plays Tracy who finds a book on a beach via a metal detector (That has no batteries in it). It has a lock that she cannot open, try as she might. She sees a rat in her living room and kills it. Miraculously the lock springs open, but only for a limited time. So you know what's coming next !!!!!!

The 2nd story is about a girl that turns up at the house of a distant relative and persuades them to let her stay as she is down on her luck and has no where else to go. The relative reluctantly agrees, but is not happy. Izzy, the girl, has alternative motives and it is not long before she is on the phone to her boyfriend to plan to rob the place. Why does the relative always talk to the ventriloquist dummy? and why does it keep talking back? Sinister times are a happening !!!!!

All three stories are good and the acting was above par for this sort of thing. The 2nd story is the best and really kept me guessing till the twist ending.

Sessions went out for an authentic feel to the proceedings with fake scratches and grain on the film. Effects are decent and everyone seemed to be having a good time. So if you like ventriloquist films (like Anthony Hopkins Magic (1978) or the classic Dead of night (1945), then this is defiantly for you