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VARIETY RAVES ABOUT HOME MOVIE

The kids are far from all right in "Home Movie," a Val Lewton-esque, no budget horror pic that applies a "Blair Witch" aesthetic to a psychotic family yarn a la 2009 Palme d'Or winner Michael Haneke. Freshman scribe-helmer Christopher Denham's chilling four-handler features "Heroes" star Adrian Pasdar as the clan's abusive, alcoholic father with an iffy sexual upbringing -- but he's not the worst of them. Read full review!

HOME MOVIE - NEW REVIEW FROM FANGORIA MAGAZINE

It has only taken the better part of a decade, but the children of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT have come of age in the last year or so, and found-footage horror is flourishing on big and small screens. A handful of direct BLAIR WITCH knockoffs/spoofs notwithstanding, the vérité form has only really been embraced very recently by fright filmmakers, ranging from old masters (George A. Romero with DIARY OF THE DEAD) to genre-feature first-timers (the CLOVERFIELD gang). Read Review!

HOME MOVIE - NEW REVIEW FROM DREAD CENTRAL

It was around 1984, and after borrowing a HandiCam to film a friend’s wedding, my parents turned the camera on their kids. As my little brother did his best “Putting on the Ritz” dance, I repeatedly popped into frame to steal the show. My constant upstaging must have gotten on his six year old nerves, because the next thing you see is me getting cold cocked and the camera being hastily put down while my parents rush in to break up the sibling beat down. Ahhh, fun times... Read Review!

HOME MOVIE - NEW REVIEW FROM TWITCH FILM

As a twisted dark comedy/drama shot as a home movie in the vein of recent “reality” horror films like [REC], Home Movie explores the gradual destruction of the Poe family as it is confronted with the extreme ruthlessness of its two ten-year-old children, Jack and Emily (Austin and Amber Williams). Faced with this inexplicable evil as well, psychologist Clare (Cady McClain) and Lutheran minister David (Adrian Pasdar) helplessly document the irrational chaos produced by their children with their video camera... Read Review!

KILLER REVIEWS INTERVIEWS BLYTHE AUFFARTH

"Playing Meg was a challenge, in that I was asked to visit the “basement” of my being everyday…deep, dark and dripping with vulnerability. Having to imagine and experience some of the most ghastly crimes you could commit against an individual was a daunting undertaking. And how did I make it through two weeks in the basement? I owe it to a healthy and supportive family, a professional and sensitive cast and crew, and an easily accessed emotional life developed through years... Read Interview!

THE GIRL NEXT DOOR - NEW REVIEW FROM BLOODY DISGUSTING

Think you know pain? You don’t know shit. Sylvia Likens knew pain. In 1958 she was locked in the basement of her foster home, and tortured for weeks and weeks, until she was dead. She was starved, denied the use of a bathroom, forced to eat her own excrements, raped, and beaten by the kids of the neighborhood. Her foster family would invite kids over from the neighborhood to drink beers, smoke cigarettes, burn and penetrate a tied up 13 year old girl in the cellar, as long as they didn’t tell anyone. Read Review!