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12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Film ThreatBobby LePireFilm ThreatBobby LePireLaBute rewards patient viewers with two amazing lead performances, crackling dialogue, and genuine suspense. While the film might be flawed, it is imminently watchable.
- 88RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiRogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiWith his latest film, “House of Darkness,” LaBute tries something similar to "The Wicker Man." And while the results may not be nearly as outlandish this time around, they do make for an intriguing and occasionally quite witty battle of the sexes, in which not all of the bloodshed is strictly metaphorical.
- 75The Film StageJared MobarakThe Film StageJared MobarakLaBute is meticulously escalating the danger by providing Hap his wildest dreams in a way that reveals to the audience how their ability to come true is reliant upon him losing control.
- 70We Got This CoveredMartin CarrWe Got This CoveredMartin CarrHouse of Darkness leaves audiences with much to consider as the credits roll and blood red titles draw a discreet veil over this contemporary Gothic offering.
- 67Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerAustin ChronicleRichard WhittakerFew can write this kind of acid-dripping parlor drama with as much bite as LaBute.
- 50Paste MagazineMatt DonatoPaste MagazineMatt DonatoWhere Josh Ruben’s Scare Me soars thanks to tension delivered through imaginative monologues, LaBute’s latest is mostly benign chatter that rambles its way to an unimpressively expected conclusion.
- 42The A.V. ClubLeigh MonsonThe A.V. ClubLeigh MonsonUltimately, House Of Darkness exists in a strange and equally fatal no man’s land of being simultaneously under- and overwritten. As a feature film, it’s entirely insubstantial, with a premise better served in short form as part of an anthology.
- 40The New York TimesAustin ConsidineThe New York TimesAustin ConsidineHere is House of Darkness anyway, a talky, allegorical horror film that delivers plenty of LaBute’s typically sharp irony and observations but little raison d’être. It is sometimes insightful, just not about women, who outnumber the men three to one.
- 38Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreCinematically-static if well-acted, and dramatically-flat throughout, it’s an end-of-the-date story of gamesmanship, competing agendas and differing interpretations of what’s going on in a coupling towards copulation sense.