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House On The Hill (2012/ITN/MVD DVD)

Picture: C Sound: C- Extras: D Film: B-



House on the Hill takes on a thrilling rollercoaster of fear and suspense. It is apparently based on a true story about serial killers from San Francisco named Leonard Lake and Charles Ng, who enjoyed videoing everything. This movie does not try and make the serial killers glorified so we feel for them later; they decide to focus on making it scary for the audience experiencing the movie.

What House on the Hill did was try and create a movie that still incorporated the videos that Lake and Ng made over time with their victims, confessionals, and construction of their dungeon like room. That is one reason why you will notice that the cinematography is lacking in some areas. They tried making the rest of it seem like it flowed together in portions, but you are able to tell. It is still creepy to see the actual serial killer Lake speak in the House on the Hill and also to realize that, even though what you are seeing take place is violent, you know whatever actually happened must have been so much worse.

The sound (in lossy Dolby Digital sound here) with the serial killers actually speaking has very low quality, obviously, but the rest of the film sounds like they had a semi-decent microphone either on the camera they were holding or maybe a close boom, but again, it felt like they were trying to use this to their advantage and make it feel like real found footage.

Unfortunately, the movie felt like it was one of those Forensic Files or some other cop drama reenactment. Keep in mind, the footage is still eerie and the movie itself can be shocking and disturbing at times and some people are very much into this kind of stuff.

There are no extras.



- Jordan Whiteko


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