A Haunted House
2013 · Directed by Michael Tiddes
Original language: English
- comedy
- horror
The story
Malcolm and Kisha move into their dream home, but soon learn a demon also resides there. When Kisha becomes possessed, Malcolm - determined to keep his sex life on track - turns to a priest, a psychic, and a team of ghost-busters for help in this spoof of all the "found-footage/documentary style" films released in recent years.
What it’s like
Shot in the flat, overlit look of cheap handheld camcorder footage, with jittery zooms, wobbly framing, and a fake-documentary sheen of mock interview cutaways, this is a comedy that lives in the texture of its own spoof. Interiors glow under bright household lamps and bathroom fluorescents, and the nights are lit by the dim green-white flicker of night-vision, so the dark rooms feel grubby rather than atmospheric. The sound is a noisy grab-bag of cheesy stings, sudden jump-scare bangs, and a cheerful, mock-spooky score that keeps undercutting the scares. The rhythm is brisk and sketch-like, with gags stacked one after another and a loose, slapstick energy. Its vibe is goofy, bawdy, and irreverent, the kind of thing to put on with friends on a lazy weekend or as a late-night laugh when you want something silly. It is crude and sexually explicit in its humor, with plenty of raunchy jokes, bodily gags, and sex-themed bits, and there is frequent comic violence and horror-movie gore played for laughs, along with demonic possession and eerie imagery. It suits people who enjoy broad, filthy parody of horror tropes and don't mind a relentless barrage of vulgarity.
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