Home Movie (2008)

• Year: 2008
• Released: 08 Dec 2009
• Country: United States
• Adwords: 1 win & 1 nomination
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1267319/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/home_movie
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• Available in: 720p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
• Runtime: 77 min
• Writer: Christopher Denham
• Director: Christopher Denham
• Cast: Lucian Maisel, Cady McClain, Adrian Pasdar
• Keywords: new york city, family, evil, found footage, evil child, disturbed child,

	5.6/10
	87% – Critics
	73% – Audience

Home Movie Storyline

Documents one family’s descent into darkness, using a compilation of found home-made footage. In the remote woods of upstate New York, the Poe family lives a Norman Rockwell life. Perfect house. Perfect marriage. If only the children stopped stapling frogs to trees. Something is very wrong with Jack and Emily Poe, the ten-year old twins. And, to stop them, their parents must enter the nightmare of their minds. The only question is: who will survive the night?—MODERNCINÉ STAFF

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Come on…. “Unbearable Tension”????

Honestly… how fake can comments get?? “Home Movie” is like most of the pseudo-realistic hand-held cam movies rather dull. It takes pretty long to get to the psycho-kids go mad part and before you have to watch 2 kids not speaking a word, killing frogs, throwing stones at their dad and then killing every pet in the house. The basic idea of kids sliding into madness and crucifying the family cat, decapitating the dog and whatever else their plotting could have worked but problem is that “Home movie” is incredibly stretched and totally unbelievable.

First of all… a psychiatrist who treats her own kids on heavy meds is far from being believable (especially because both parents don’t act hysterically until the end). Then the whole Home-Cam premise where either the parents film or the kids falls apart when they film themselves breaking down or the mother flees in terror but still takes the camera. It makes as little sense as the fast-forward and repeat scenes thrown in randomly (I am guessing its supposed to what the kids always watch on their TV that is blurred out) or the supernatural elements with doors opening and the kids appearing/disappearing magically on several occasions.

I didn’t feel any chills from the kids acting because its inconsistent… first they don’t speak at all, then they act normal, finally they take the camera with a “lets have some fun” comment and finally they are totally mad. In between two small kids overpower their parents in their sleep, tie them up and drag them through the house all with the parents knowing they are sick in the head and dangerous?? Come on… The funny thing is that I got the impression that the makers of the movie think its smart to throw in hints in the parents actions like the dragon-story, trash-bag comments and silly lock-picking lesson that re-appear in the children acting crazy. But its pretty cheap shots… if you wait for a creepy chiller. None here… rather watch “Poughkeepsie Tapes”, if you want to be creeped out by kids watch “the children”, if you want a creepy psychological study watch anything else. “Home Movie” is trying hard to be smart and different but ends up being boring, inconsistent, unrealistic and topping it off with a giant let-down in the end.

Just one question to the makers… who’s fast forwarding and why in the scenes that were chosen. I see no logical pattern to all this no matter from where I look at it. I guess like often with that kind of movies… its better not to look too close.

Didn’t get dark enough for my liking

Not a lot to be said about this one unfortunately. I saw some people recommending it on a Found Footage page I follow. It was short so I decided to give it a chance. I could never really get into it though. I think Found Footage works better with the supernatural (about the only time I’ll ever say anything positive about supernatural films). There was nothing here that the Found Footage concept added to, and in reality it probably took a lot away from the film. All it probably achieved was keeping the film ultra-cheap for the filmmakers.

It’s not all bad here. The final sequence was reasonably well done and added a point or two to the film. Also there were one or two sequences earlier in the film that at least had me interested in what would happen next. I would’ve liked to see the film get a lot darker though. Found footage films have a tendency to get really dark and leave the viewer with a hopeless feeling. I never quite felt that way here. It’s far from terrible, but go in with low expectations would be my advice. 5/10.

Muddled found footage horror with irritating characters

HOME MOVIE is, as the title would suggest, a found footage horror film although the horror elements are rather slight and this feels more like a drama about a dysfunctional family. There are elements of other horror films like PARANORMAL ACTIVITY here although it’s worth noting that HOME MOVIE is a relatively early entry in the genre before its popularity really took off.

The storyline is straightforward, about your typical American nuclear family (husband, wife, son, and daughter) recording family events on their new video camera. Unfortunately for them it soon transpires that their children are rather malevolent, and when you see that the family owns numerous pets you get an idea of where this is going. Sadly, the execution is very poor, amateurish in fact, and the British horror film THE CHILDREN tackled the same subject matter in a much more involving and traditional way.

The main problem I had with HOME MOVIE is that the characters are so annoying. It seems that some or all of the dialogue was ad-libbed because characters just ramble on forever about irrelevant stuff. The husband is particularly irritating and most viewers will want to knock his block off after about five minutes. In addition, the camera editing and stylistics are too distracting, with random shaking and loud noises obscuring what would be clear-cut incidents. I didn’t care for this film at all.