House by Ted Dekker and Frank Perreti

I am a little wary about movies with Christian themes because of the fact that usually these types of movies are made to look very cheesy and that makes me not so much a fan of them as say a secular movie with a little more high budget power and big name power. Not to say that they don't have any kind of meaning or significance behind them because they most certainly do. I just watched a little horror movie called House which is based on the book by Ted Dekker and Frank Perreti. I am not to familiar with Ted Dekker but Frank Perreti is a Christian author. This movie however did not seem like your run of the mill Christian themed movies, it was a spectacular, creepy and over the top horror film, no sex, no cussing, and that goes to show you that all of that garbage doesn't need to be in films anyway. Granted it didn't make any money at the box office, In fact I didn't even see it in the theaters to begin with. It was still a classy little flick that had awesome special effects and the acting was by no means cheesy, very stylish and very hip and the premise was fairly original and there was definitely Christian themes and tie ins to this movie, I am not going to give you any plot details you will have to see it for yourself. I have included a trailer for this movie in which, i might add, gets ten out of ten stars!!!!!!!

Amusement ......Not Very Amusing....

The premise of this movie has been done to death. The premise is about three girls that have something in common with this boy that they went to elementary school with, and guess what the boy is a psycho. For some reason the boy has some kind of vendetta against the three girls, via some kind of traumatizing event that happened when they were little. The traumatizing event is when they all were little one of the girls said they didn't like the boy's school project, she thought it wasn't "funny" as he wanted it to be. It was a shoe box with a mouse in it that was cut open like an autopsy, I would generally think this was funny, but for some reason the girl didn't, call me cooky. And so the vendetta starts when they are all older and blah blah blah........
There were some cool elements to the movie, I like a scary movie that involves clowns and the killer wears this clown suit and mask that is pretty scary, there were no jumps or shivers up and down my spine or anything like that. It was your typical hum drum horror flick, where the lady in distress gets her man in the end.
One more thing to add, the killer was supposed to have some sort of scary laugh but it wasn't Oscar worthy or anything. At least the hotel where the killer lived was creepy. I really expected more from this but didn't get it. I came from this experience feeling cheap and dirty.
Out of ten stars, I give it a 6.