Dark House Reviews

Dark House is a low budget Horror film that tries too hard to be in the same league as the Hollywood productions. The question is, does it work? Well no. The cast here do a below average job at acting, and the script is pretty weak. Which is a shame because the idea for this film was pretty interesting, unfortunately it's budget limitations are in the way along with a bad script. Re-Animator actor, Jeffrey Combs plays in this film, and he's often amusing, but he lacks the flair that made him great in Re-Animator. Dark House has too many loose ends to be a good story, and definitely a below average film that doesn't quite succeed on what it promises to deliver. If the cast was better chosen, and I'm not talking about Combs, maybe this film would have been a better one, unfortunately the film feels flat, the scares aren't real. The film ends up feeling quite boring, and it feels like it drags on. Dark House really had the potential in being a great film, unfortunately it's just another low-budget horror blunder. There were some good ideas at work here, unfortunately the film never succeeds at delivering something good and unique. The film falls apart, and it becomes derivative and uninteresting. I think it's a shame because there were some fairly interesting ideas here, unfortunately due to a bad script, and poor directing, the film never takes off and becomes a misfire. Dark House is a bad film that I can't recommend because it's simply a film that doesn't work to entertain its audience.

Semi-interesting with a somewhat generic premise... you've seen it before but it's enough to pass the time.

How come Danso Gordon's head came back in the end? If the police was right then yeah, that's okay then. But the ending definitely didn't agreed with the police. The story was L-A-M-E. Will not make any sense in any angle. That house didn't look creepy at all. And why did that girl (who entered the house in the beginning) roamed around here and there as if she was in a museum of dead people? And also, I think it will be a bit offensive for religious people if they see the Bible burning thingy.
Special effects were the only jewelery of this movie to show off. There were some moments I literally jumped. But that's about it. The twist at the end was good. But not good enough to recommend anyone to watch this.

The fourth time is the charm for the Fangoria Frightfest! The acclaimed horror festival has been a complete bust up until it's fourth film, Dark House. This is a highly imaginative film, with one hell of a twist in the end, and as all of my regular readers know, I love a good twist at the end! Dark House is Walston's newest haunted attraction, featuring state of the art technology, that promises to rattle even the most fearless of people. Aside from the new technology, the big draw for Dark House is that it is the actual house where a ghastly mass murder took place years earlier. Besides it's cool effects, what I really liked about this film was the strong background story that goes along with it. Yes, it does eventually become a gorefest, but it comes after you've been watching a really interesting story for quite some time. As for the gore, it's not what you usually see either, as it's done in a b-movie style. This was really interesting to me, as the attraction features state of the art technology, but the actual murder scenes look like something out of a cheesy 70s film. The stars of the film are mostly newcomers, and as expect some were great, while others need more school, but it's a fairly large cast, so those actors who aren't very good, didn't have much screen time. Dark House will make you jump, make you laugh, and shock you with it's surprise ending. There's a simple plot, that's easy to follow, and an interesting back story for those of us who like to think a little bit. It is really everything I look for in a Horror film and more.

I only watched this to see Jeffrey Combs & he looked great. It was one of those films where you want the terrible lead to be killed within the 1st 10 minutes.

Some solid gore and a semi-entertaining premise do little to elevate this film above the level of the mediocre....

i liked it! yes, it was cheesy, but it had some pretty good creepy moments! i've seen worse...

I enjoyed this much to my surprise. It was a really interesting story even if some of the actors were annoying sometimes. Sure it's been done before... but for what it is... it's not bad viewing.

One star for my man Jeffrey Combs and one star of Diane Salinger's crazy ass

Terrible. I didn't even finish it. Acting is terrible...plot is stupid. Just trash

Scary, but the twist at the end was a letdown.

A fun, quirky horror film. It never tries to be more than what it is, a low budget spook show. And it succeeds at being that. People who slam the film because it wasn't "scary" enough or who felt the acting was sub-par are missing the point entirely.

Dark House is not original but it has its moments mainly in the around the 50 min mark, but the rest of the film falls flat on every thing else the end could be the disapointing ending I have seen in long time. SHE STILL OUT THERE!!!!!!

dark house is a very unoriginal film about college film students who want to become actors get to work at a haunted house. the special effects come to life and they start killing everyone in the house one by one. the concept is really stupid and the acting is bad too. this film was very low budget and you can tell because the special effects that are portrayed in the film look like clay animation. its a cheesy movie that had no thrills or scares. theres a nice twist at the end but at that time you really don't care what happens.

i thought it was scary, had a twist to it when the people were actuly getting killed. good acting for a low budget film.

I liked Dark House it had a Great cast, it was a cheesy movie but some good creeps and Freeks and it had a couple of scare. My rating was about 45%