SummaryDriving home to her secluded estate after meeting at a local bar, a player (Justin Long) out to score thinks his beautiful, mysterious date (Kate Bosworth) will be another casual hook-up. While getting acquainted, their flirtation turns playful, sexy and sinister. Hoping to get lucky, his luck may have just run out.
Directed By:Neil LaBute
Written By:Neil LaBute
House of Darkness
Metascore
Mixed or Average
54
User score
Generally Unfavorable
3.5
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
54
42% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
42% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
17% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Sep 9, 2022
90
LaBute rewards patient viewers with two amazing lead performances, crackling dialogue, and genuine suspense. While the film might be flawed, it is imminently watchable.
Sep 5, 2022
75
LaBute 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.
User score
Generally Unfavorable
3.5
0% Positive
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64% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
36% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
Oct 30, 2023
6
House of Darkness is boring as hell yet exciting a lot too. Justin Long and Kate Bosworth were enough for me to watch but I didn't think that it will be so dull. But at the same time, this two make you wonder "what is gonna happen at the end?". And it was obvious.
Sep 8, 2022
67
Few can write this kind of acid-dripping parlor drama with as much bite as LaBute.
Sep 9, 2022
60
As a whole, House of Darkness is a very mixed bag of a film. The script shifts from nuanced to blunt depending on what minute you're watching, but the central performances add a layer of complexity that's often worth watching.
Sep 8, 2022
50
Where 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.
Sep 8, 2022
40
Here 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.
Oct 4, 2022
20
This feels like something LaBute wrote in an afternoon on the notes app on his smartphone while thinking about something else.
Feb 21, 2024
2
Wow. This was so boring! Literally just…dialogue. Just the dude babbling on about nothing. No action. No suspense. No nothing!
Sep 16, 2022
2
WHAT? f I wanted to relive 80 minutes of stilted, uncomfortable, awkward post pick up dialogue just to have it end badly....I have my personal memories from my **** really what I'm looking for in a vampire movie
Nov 23, 2025
0
Giant waste of time. Nothing happens at all then ~2 minutes before the credits “something” happens that has almost no build up and no payoff.
Production Company:
- SSS Entertainment
- SSS Film Capital
Release Date:Sep 9, 2022
Duration:1 h 29 m
Rating:R
Tagline:"Once upon a time ..."
Awards
Fantasia Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
