This 2009 Horror Movie Looks Like It Was Pulled From a 1983 Video Store Shelf - CNET
Partway through The House of the Devil, Jocelin Donahue’s character puts on her Walkman and dances through an empty mansion to The Fixx’s “One Thing Leads to Another.” Nothing happens in the scene, and it’s still one of the tensest stretches in the movie because, by then, director Ti West has spent nearly an hour convincing you something is about to. The 2009 film, shot on 16mm and set during the satanic panic, is a study in patient, slow-building dread. It’s streaming free on Tubi in time for Halloween.
This isn’t just an homage; it feels like a lost artifact unearthed from a 1983 time capsule. West shot this on 16mm film with an obsessive attention to detail — right down to the pizza place cups — creating a slow-burn masterpiece that trades cheap modern jump scares for a suffocating, gnawing dread.
It’s gritty, features a young Greta Gerwig...
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