Review of The Houses October Built

My quick rating - 5,6/10. An excellent idea by far which is proved since the documentary/horror version of this was screened 4 years ago to high praise. That aside, the premise is simple yet effectively done. A group of people travel around the USA searching for the ultimate haunted house. For those unaware (yes, Australians know little about this), during Halloween people,towns,schools, etc. setup haunted houses with props, effects and people to scare the crap out of you. So, instead of the group following the norm, they are looking for the little town local scares to try and find the "extreme haunted house" In their travels, they start to attract attention of another group that appears to also travel, but are part of these exhibits. The build to the climax of the film is well done, allowing for many scares inside the actual mock haunted houses (which would've been a great movie for 3-D). The movie itself is often dark (go figure) so at times hard to see what is going on but all and all not distracting. The acting wasn't anything special nor really mattered. THe plot itself was driven on just fine and luckily the director did not rely solely on the constant shaky footage crap all the time. A great idea indeed just wish a little more could've been squeezed out of the story itself. Perfect for Halloween and Shocktober.