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Rapid Reviews: October 2020

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The Open House (2018)

Review by CJ

Director:
Matt Angel, Suzanne Coote

Starring:
Dylan Minnette, Piercey Dalton

Other notable appearances:
Patricia Bethune, Sharif Atkins, Aaron Abrams

Running time:
94 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
The Strangers

 

After the death of his father, Logan (Minnette) and his mother (Dalton) fall on hard times and move in to his aunt’s mountain holiday home. The holiday home is for sale so the family 

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The Babysitter (2017)

Review by CJ

Director:
McG

Starring:
Judah Lewis, Samara Weaving, Robbie Amell, Hana Mae Lee, Bella Thorne, Andrew Bachelor

Other notable appearances:
Leslie Bibb, Ken Marino

Running time:
85 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Home Alone with a lot more blood, Scream, The Craft

 

Cole (Lewis) is the only kid his age who still has a babysitter. Once his peers see Bee (Weaving) though, they stop picking on him. Cole is told what babysitters usually get up to after their charges go to sleep and decides to stay up to see for himself. What he finds Bee up to though is far more insidious than making out with her boyfriend.

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I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016)

Review by CJ

Director:
Oz Perkins

Starring:
Ruth Wilson, Paul Prentiss, Lucy Boynton

Other notable appearances:
Bob Balaban, Brad Milne

Running time:
18 days (okay, IMDb says it was actually 87 minutes)

Watch this if you like:
Being so bored that it aches

 

Lily (Wilson) is a hospice nurse who comes to live with elderly horror writer Iris Blum (Prentiss) in her haunted house.

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