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The House of the Devil

Talk on the phone. Finish your homework. Watch TV. Die.

6.2(896)20091h 35m6

A young college student who’s struggling financially takes a strange babysitting job which coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret, putting her life in mortal danger.

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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
English
  • ritual
  • pentagram
  • cult
  • pizza
  • pay phone
  • human sacrifice
  • eclipse
  • witchcraft
  • occult
  • ceremony
  • satanic ritual
  • 1980s

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Behind the camera

Director

Ti West

Writers

Ti West

Produced in

United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereTribeca Film Festival25 Apr 2009
    • Theatrical (limited)R30 Oct 2009
  • CanadaCA

    • Premiere18AFantasia International Film Festival26 Jul 2009
  • FranceFR

    • Physical128 Sept 2010

Frequently asked questions

The House of the Devil was released on 30 October 2009.

Audience reviews

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    ACJ

    6/23/2013

    1/10

    By far, the SLOWEST horror film I've ever watched! Really don't waste the 95 mins it'll take to watch and be stupidly disappointed (stupidly, because you'll feel like an idiot for getting to the end of the film and realising you were being taken for one the whole time!). This film's writer/Director/producer(s) were clearly so besotted with false nostalgia for horror films of the 80s, that they misguidedly picked the …

  • J

    John Chard

    10/26/2015

    7/10

    This one night changes everything for me. Ti West seems destined to be one of those horror film directors who forever will polarise opinions. For those of us who love the slow burn approach and admire his evident adoration of retro horror, then he hits the mark. Reference The House of the Devil and latterly The Innkeepers. If those two things don't strike a chord with you then it's very likely that The House of th…

  • N

    Nathan

    11/25/2022

    5/10

    After watching _X_ and _Pearl_, I was very excited to dive deeper into Ti West's filmography, unfortunately for me this one does not live up to the hype. This movie has a very old school feel to it, giving me flashbacks to the original _Halloween_ and _Friday the 13th_ with its film quality, atmosphere, and audio effects/music. I really enjoyed this aspect, and it left me feeling somewhat nostalgic. These feelings di…

  • A

    Agustttt

    1/16/2025

    The pacing is AWFUL, scenes drag out that have no plot relevance. Other than that, it's a solid movie. It with a lot of fat trimming it could be a thousand times better. The movie takes place in the 1980s and the film used to do so really pulls in that grain.

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