hemipristis Review of House Hunting

House Hunting (2012)

Interesting idea, poorly executed, sadly predictable

[4/10 · 10 August 2022]

Interesting idea, but they couldn't pull it off. It started in the problem setup: The introduction to the dilemma--that they cannot leave the house, and keep driving in circles returning to the same place--was too short, and glossed over. This could have been milked a bit longer, so as to build the suspense. Instead, they skip to the chase of 2 families trapped in the house. What follows could be seen from the next county: they go mad starting---oh so predictably---with the grumpy father, who was set up to be the first to go upon his first scene. Several modern violent-horror tropes and an hour or so later (with me nodding off several times), the cast dwindles down to the two characters you knew would be the last, and voila, the teen girl gets away. Yawn. Was the writer the winner of a HS English competition? Don't bother. Seriously.