I actually didn't see this before. I'm glad I finally did. Watch the ckip below to find out what I really thought about it.
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This is actually my first attempt at video blogging, or vlogging as I've learned is the term for it. Anyway, this is the fist attempt. Hopefully there will be more and better entries.
House of Purgatory – 2016 – extreme haunted house
I’m a bit surprised that I haven’t seen
a flick like this before. It’s been some years since I first heard about the McKamey Manor, a horror place so
extreme that you have to sign a waiver to even be accepted to enter. It’s a
place so extreme it’s said that no one ever finished it. Everything is allowed,
except causing permanent injuries. At least major injuries I would think. But I
really don’t know since I haven’t read the waiver…
As I see it, this trend of extreme
haunted houses is the basis of this movie. Because I believe that it is a
trend. If one starts such an extreme attraction other are sure to follow – and to
explore the boundaries even further. The concept here is the argument if there’s
really such a place, a place so horrible that no one ever finished it, or if it’s
actually an urban legend. The two debaters hit the road to find or not to find
the rumored place. Of course they find it!
If they choose to enter, and finish the
attraction, they will get the admission fee back. However, since its Halloween,
there is no fee… seems kind of strange. Anyway, the gang of four is told that
the rumor is in fact false. The goal is not to enter the house and reach the
top to get rewarded. They will actually start at the top and move themselves
downwards. Four or five levels down. That’s a major basement don’t you think?
Soon they’re exposed to some vanilla
scares which, to be honest, gets worst after a while. It starts to get to a
couple of them. Typically the women, I guess we cannot escape the non-equality
of the sexes. But I feel that women generally are better screamers anyway so…
Come to think of it. I was expecting pretty poor acting in this production but
I was nicely surprised to see that they are quite good! I believe in the
emotions they’re showing on screen. Very nice!
As they descend down the levels there’s
a question if this is actually a supernatural house or not. Are they really
going down to hell or is the house so perfectly set up that it’ll only seem
that way? Well, I believe we get the answer to that later on.
My personal thought about this is that
it’s quite a nice horror flick. I like it! I liked the first half better than
the last but it’s still way better than I expected. It doesn’t seem to really
connect every piece of the puzzle along the way and I wished for a more complex
ending, but you can’t have everything. It’s not a very long movie. About 75
minutes and I guess that’s fine. We don’t really need a longer story to get the
point made. No one escapes purgatory!
6/10
Tommy Snöberg Söderberg
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