Home

This is one of the director's trademark, fundamentalist propaganda films pretending to be a horror film (though there isn't much in the way of horror, unless you count the horror of losing your money on this junk and realizing you've been duped). Filled with anti-gay and anti-secular propaganda -- anti-anything the director disagrees with, in other words. If a fundamentalist filmmaker is going to preach at you, they should at least have the honesty to tell you that first. This reminds me of that film The Life Zone, which was sold as a horror film but turned out to be an anti-abortion statement where the one woman who has an abortion ends up being tortured in hell. Fortunately, Stephen Colbert caught wind of that fraud and was able to warn audiences in time. Hopefully, I've warned a few people.

It's no Insidious or The Conjuring, but this movie delivers! It starts off slow, and at first it's not clear where the movie is heading. Is it a ghost story? A possession story? Is there social commentary, and if so, is it something I'd like or not like? After the first half hour or so, amidst an atmosphere of gathering dread, things get rolling and the characters seem to be moving forward in adjusting to a difficult situation not of their choosing. Then, the story takes an abrupt turn this reviewer never saw coming!

The acting is generally good, as you might expect with veteran scream queen Heather Langenkamp on board. The lead, Kerry Knuppe, is a joy to watch. (Aaron the boyfriend, however, is somewhat underwhelming.)

Not showing Christianity in a bad light may not be everyone's cup of tea--which might explain why this movie currently has such a bad rating. If this is a requirement, don't bother. If it's not a problem, though, Home is definitely worth a look.

I wasn't sure where we were going with this movie- but I honestly didn't mind. My big con to the movie is that I thought heather and Samantha would have a stronger presence in the movie. I understand they wanted to share the screen with an Original Scream Queen, and someone possibly up and coming, but I didn't even really like Carrie's character all that much to care about her. But just getting a chance to see Samantha Mumba and Heather L on screen was enough for me

This movie is ruined by the sound, most of the movie plays at 20% of the maximum volume just so the volume can be 5 times louder at a few points that are meant to make you jump. If a movie makes me jump it should be because it's scary, not because I'm worried the sound is going to damage my speakers.

Well, there is no doubt about the fact that I sat down to watch the 2016 movie "Home" because it was a horror movie, and also because it had Heather Langenkamp on the cast list.

And now that I have just finished watching writers Jeff Lam and Frank Lin's movie, I must admit that this was not really an outstanding horror experience. Sure, the movie was watchable, but it just wasn't a particularly great horror movie. It was essentially way too generic in its storyline, and there wasn't really much of anything spooky happening. Sure, there were some events going on, but it was not sufficiently enough.

And the ending of the movie was just so bland that I bet even a guy in a coma would sit up and say "are you serious?" Yeah, that was just very, very predictable ending, and one that didn't really do justice to the movie.

Director Frank Lin was just playing it way too safe in the way that the movie's story was executed and brought to life on the screen; it was as if he had a 'How to Make a Horror Movie' manual, and was following it chronologically step by step. And that made for a very generic and predictable movie.

The acting in the movie was actually adequate, taking into consideration the severe limitations imposed by a flaccid storyline.

Visually then "Home" leaves much to be wanting for, because the movie is not heavy on the usage of special effects. Whatever little effects were there served their purposes well enough, but this wasn't effects that were bedazzling or will blow you away.

"Home" doesn't bring anything new to the haunted house genre, and that is a factor that definitely keeps the movie from getting up and out of the generic runt that it was trotting around in.

All in all, "Home" is watchable a single time, because it was just too bland and generic. And truth be told, the storyline is so weak that it collapses under its own weight and cannot support more than a single viewing.

My rating of the 2016 movie "Home" lands on a less than mediocre four out of ten stars. If you enjoy a properly scary horror movie, then there are far better and far more scary movies readily available on the horror market.