BARE BONES: HOUSE ON WILLOW STREET (2017)

HOUSE ON WILLOW STREET (2017)

Flick has four kidnappers snatching a girl (Carlyn Burchell) whom they plan to ransom, only to find she is possessed by a demon and now they can’t get rid of her as she takes them down one by one. Silly flick is flatly directed by Alastair Orr from a script by he, Jonathan Jordaan and Catherine Blackman. Despite that it gets goofier and goofier as it moves along, this flick takes itself way too seriously, so we can’t even have fun with the ridiculousness of it all. It’s an endless parade of horror clichés and movie scene rip-offs that doesn’t even have the decency to allow us to laugh at it, as it’s just so dull. There is some nice make-up FX and gore, but the CGI is laughably bad and the performances and dialog are wooden and weak. Overall it’s a tedious mess of things we’ve seen so many times before and not reused with any cleverness or ingenuity. Yawn.

There was some good advanced word on this, though not sure where it came from. Stars Sharni Vinson (You’re Next, Patrick: Evil Awakens), who looks uncomfortable and like she’d rather be elsewhere, during the entire movie.

-MonsterZero NJ

THE HOUSE ON WILLOW STREET GETS A TRAILER!

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A trailer and a cool poster have arrived for the new film The House On Willow Street. Directed by Alastair Orr and written by he and Jonathan Jordaan, the film stars Sharni (You’re Next) Vinson and is about a group of kidnappers abducting a girl (Carlyn Burchell) under demonic influences. Film is slated for release on VOD, streaming and select theaters on March 23, 2017 from IFC Midnight!

Source: Youtube/IFC Midnight