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The whole consept of the film is interesting and I haven't seen something similar but there was no story at all. Not even the classic horror story that someone dies and becomes a ghost or how someone becomes a killer.

The Open House is a Netflix original movie and presently sits at no.55 on the IMDB bottom 100. So the IMDB community deems this to be the 55th worst movie ever made. I have to disagree, but there is no denying just how atrocious it is.

It tells the story of a mother and son who move into an open house after a tragedy befalls their family. As per the usual trope weird things begin to happen in the property.

The trouble is, well.................there are a lot of troubles but first of all the movie is..........wait, honestly I don't even know where to start here.

Awfully paced, dreadful characters you simply can't care about, a billion unanswered questions, the film ultimately goes nowhere at all! Basically the only redeeming features the film has are marginally decent cinematograpgy and a beautiful setting.

The Open House is fully deserving of all the poor ratings, it's the absolute pits.

The Good:

Beautiful location

The Bad:

Cliched to incredible levels

Unlikeable characters

Serves no purpose

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

Nothing, in fact I'm pretty sure it caused brain leakage so I've probably forgot some stuff

Most of the 1 star reviews articulate the problem really well but if you're still unclear allow me to communicate it in another way.

Imagine you walked into your living room and saw Frank Sinatra playing world of warcraft. Then your neighbour came round several times and said some weird stuff to you. Then your cat takes a dump in your bed and moos at you. Then you start singing the lyrics to YMCA while Eiffel 65 is playing 'I'm blue' in the background

So you must be asking yourself, What was the relevance of sinatra and why world of warcraft? Why did my neighbour come around and what did they say? Why did your cat moo and why sing YMCA to a different tune?

The truth is...no reason at all. None of it related to anything. Pointless. No connection. Nothing

What??? There was no ending?? It was pointless to even watch! A waste of time for the viewer.

Good job Netflix! You bought total crap! After watching this I can't help but feel like the "writers" of this trainwreck are sitting in their beanbag chairs and taking turns patting each other on the back. Instead of congratulating themselves they should be taking script writing classes. This was the laziest piece of crap that I have seen in a VERY long time. "Oh! We have a great idea for a movie!...I mean...we don't have any structure and we don't have a clue how to finish it...but maybe people will think we're geniuses for just phoning in the entire ending of the movie!"

Listen...there are no spoiler alerts here. This movie is a complete waste of time. If these two morons ever hope to make another movie...maybe they should learn something about structure...plot...climax. I feel like this movie was written on a napkin at a Denny's and then left on the table and the busboy decided to make it.

It's just awful. Stay away. And pray they never make another film in their lives. There are too many talented writers and directors out there to waste any time on these two.

There...I said it.

I completely jinxed this movie by saying how good it was halfway through.

I've seen some pretty horrendous horror films in my lifetime, but you expect them to be horrendous because they are what they say on the tin. Cheap and easy.

This film is the opposite, it's deceptive and not in a "ahhh wasn't expecting that" sort of way. More a feeling of being completely ripped off and dissatisfied kinda way. We honestly really enjoyed a good majority of this film, so many things that look like they're building up to a really good twist at the end. Mysterious characters, red herrings, things that could be linked together in a really cool way.

How naive and utterly wrong we were.

There is no point to this film. Literally, why was this film made? It's like they employed a really good writer for the first half of the film who put together a brilliant structure and then some idiot decided to take over and realised he/she was in over their head. By the last shot I was honestly screaming "DO NOT ROLL CREDITS" and my sister had to restrain me when the goddam screen went black.

This review may seem extra, but I have never been so angry, frustrated and disappointed by a potentially great film.

I urge you not to waste your time.

I have to go cool off and try and forget the fact I ever watched this piece of rubbish.

I really don't know what happened here. It started off well, but then it just kind of fizzled. The acting wasn't bad, but the writing was. Certainly nothing original about the plot. I was really expecting more from this movie. Overall its just 90 minutes of my life that I can never get back.It almost seems like they just ran out of money and decided to just go ahead and end it.It will leave you unsatisfied and with a bunch of questions that will likely never get answered. Netflix must have acquired this movie for a bargain basement price not caring about their subscribers. Please no more recommendations Netflix

I thought the movie started really good, building up to something interesting...but boy was I wrong.

Still wanna say that the lead characters were very good and acted reliably.

After like 85% of the movie I was looking forward to see how the writers was gonna tie at least some of the knots together...but boy was I wrong again.

We, the audience are left in total darkness without an answer to a single thing what so ever.

Hmm, getting tired of writing this review now so I'll stop here and go on to watch another hopefully much much more satisfying movie.

To all you moviebuffs out there...don't bother with this one. /J

When I'm on my death bed and about to slip away, I'm really going to wish that I could get back the 90 minutes of my life that I lost watching this crock of shiz. I feel sorry for the actors because, apart from Martha, (what was the point of her?) they weren't to blame. It was the diabolical "writing" which let this film down. The trailer was really promising but the rest of the film was soooo pointless. Unfortunately, you don't realise this until the end. The end - what the heck was that all about?? I'm just annoyed that I didn't have an early night and save myself from the huge disappointment of watching this film. Save yourself - don't bother!

I am not surprised by the low reviews, and the low score, I have to say I enjoyed it. I get that it doesn't have a black and white conclusion, that ambiguity in the end of a film can irritate some, but I'd like to highlight The Strangers, a similar outcome, but a masterclass in movie making, and while The Open House doesn't even come close it raises a few questions. The ending was probably done in that way to allow for a second, and I wouldn't be shocked to see an Open House Part 2 made.

Solid performances, Dylan Minnette, who's always pretty good put in a solid performance, I thought the scenes where he lashed out in anger to his mother about his father's death were very well played out, films so often go way over the top, this had a sense of realism.

When you think that the budget for this film was $100,000 I think it should be applauded, many films with budgets many times that size fail in so many ways, this was a good hour and a half of escapism.

It's not to be taken too seriously, and we didn't get many answers, but that's life.I quite enjoyed it.

All I can figure is the writer died of a stroke about 1/4 of the way through and Netflix said f it, let's run it like it is. This was an abomination.

Everything leading up to the end seemed intentionally misleading into absolutely nothing. Cheap scares that led nowhere. Random killer whose face they never show. Half the fun of these mystery/thriller films is trying to guess the killer. In Scream, the killers were throughout the whole movie! This one just followed a boy and his mom grieving and getting scared shitless for whatever reason. It's like a short story that got stretched into a movie that never should've happened. It may be good for a campfire story but even then not so much. It's an incomplete garbage of a movie. Awful awful awful...

...awful.

It's like the makings of a good movie wrapped in a bow...then someone opened the box and woosh it all flew out willy nilly with no purpose or reason...wasted my friday night...I want that time back

What the heck did i just watch? I need answers.. if you are reading this & planning to watch this film, don't! It's going to give you more questions in your life & waste absolutely your time.. XD I love thriller films but this has gone too far that it's way too vague.

Movie starts off pretty good, was enjoyed the first half.

Then it kinda felt like the writers got bored and couldn't be bothered putting in any effort for the second half.

The trailer made it look good...

Over arching story was absent, 'scary' aspects weren't scary at all, and I found myself checking my phone most of the movie.

I was really looking forward to this film. When the film started I was totally engaged thinking this was going to be a great film.

Unfortunately that quickly fizzled when I realised there was only 18 minutes left and there hasn't been any action yet.

Things only start to actually happen in the last 12 mins and even then it isn't really that interesting. What a waste of my time. Shame though because dylan minnette is brilliant like he was in 13 reasons why just a shame this is his first movie since that. :(

Poor Show Netflix - Poor Show :(

Omg! What a crapfest. Me and my wife just watched this movie after reading the negative reviews written on here. No big deal. Its a free download, so I said what's the hell. Boy were reviews spot on. This was so freaking bad, we had to watch it to the very end, to see if there were gonna be any redeeming qualities left. Not one answer to the who what when where or why of this s....tfest. This was my first 2018 review of pure crap, and when. I say crap, I'm being nice. AVOID at all cost. There are enough reviews on here to read that concur this movie sucks major ass. There is absolutely no plot to this film....NONE And to the writers of this garbage. You are clueless to what film making is all about. To the actors, if getting a paycheck is all you want ,then you need to change your careers. This was by far the very worst of the worst.

So not a clue who, why and the end gave no clues sorry but it was a waste of my time,