User Reviews

Well made sequence at the start of this - so we've got the makings of a psycho.

Roll forward 25 years, and we've got a moral dilemma involving sex and money, where a slimeball entrepreneur draws the "wholesome" heroine into a virtual whorehouse. So it raises the issue of the stupid debt ordinary people have to take on to live any kind of decent life.

Was hoping this combination would produce something good, but it's really just two old ideas - straight slasher + celeb/porn reality.

After about 30 mins the story starts counting down the numbers. The entrepreneur becomes passive, and the final conflict includes the heroine miraculously overpowering the one-note all-powerful psycho.

Basically this was a good pitch hijacked by genre - could have been much more. If they added satire on sex-as-commodity and let the entrepreneur go beast alongside the psycho, it might have been a good horror.

There was good humour and irony in the reactions of on-line viewers, but overall the values are perverse (selling sex is free market - no limits, dude!) Also the hero is almost irrelevant to the plot: could have been folded into the computer Einstein guy - bad writing. Without the nudity and gore it's just a Scooby Doo thriller for dull Reaganites.

Beautiful looking cast, and very well shot. Music OK.

Watch it and forget it.

A slasher film, set in the digital age of hackers, the internet, and modern technology; concerning the "camgirl" culture where dudes stare and chat with chicks who strip and do all kinds of fun stuff in front of their web-cams. All set in a high-security mansion controlled completely by computers, so that the girls can do their jobs safely away from creeps, stalkers, and psychos. That sounded like a film with potential, a film that would be interesting. But no, it's all just wasted potential and a big boring waste of time.

The film has no character to it, it felt very vanilla. The killer; who is called Loverboy, was such a clichéd and boring character. There was nothing intriguing about him at all. He had no special method of killing, no style or signature, no interesting motive, no interesting lore or background, just plain boring. The murder scenes were also lackluster, they had no build up, no intensity, just this fat dude appearing out of the blue and a killing people who do very little to fight for their lives. And boy are those scenes quick, some of them are even off-screen.

Story-wise it's also very basic; this good girl student needs to get money for school, she joins this web-cam porn website and meets the other girls, bonds with them, this psycho starts watching her, something goes wrong, and you know what happens next. It's really predictable and boring. There are no interesting twists or turns, no interesting characters, and characters who seem like they would have more to do in the film and end up doing nothing. Being predictable is fine in this genre, I wasn't expecting much in that case, but being boring is not fine. And that was the ultimate sin of this film, being boring. Hell, the way it was all resolved just had me yelling at the screen like, "That's it? THAT'S IT!? REALLY!?" It felt like a huge waste of time.

In the end it's about what you want from this type of film; what does the film provide. You like blood and gore? There is so little of it here. You like Sex, Ass, and Titties? There are some here and there but they don't even show the protagonist nude for some reason. You like a fun and campy horror flick? Nope, none of that here, almost completely humorless. You want a good story? HELL NO, none of that here. You want creative murders? All boring and basic as hell. You want an intriguing killer? Not here as well.

The film is as the title says, a waste of time. The only reason I gave it a rating which isn't 0, is because the production design and the cinematography are at least competent, it doesn't look cheap. And those reasons are not enough for me to enjoy the film. Far from it.

Hmm well for a straight to DVD and Netflix slasher flick that deals with webcam girls. This movie is actually a pretty decent flick. I was also surprised with the production value of this movie. So if you are a audience member that enjoys watching blood, violence, nudity and a okay narrative when it comes to slasher flicks. This movie just might work for you. Some women and feminist might be against some aspects of this movie. The first half is the build up with the setting and the characters, including a not very important romance aspect to this movie. I also liked the direction they took with the slasher villain this time around. He is the type of misogynistic creep that becomes vile and evil because he got rejected and taunted by women. You probably met people like this, people that hates girls because of past hurts and bad experiences with them. Thus, although they don't get driven to what the slasher masked guy does in this movie. They still turn into jerks that put down other people and discourages others because of their own insecurities. Hating on women and detesting guys that are handsome or more successful than they are. The slasher parts in the second half wasn't all that original but it does get the job done and it wasn't executed terribly. It may however offend some viewers, because it does sort of send a message that being a pornstar is a cool way to make money by embellishing the whole thing. So yeah, besides that I thought this was a alright slasher flick.

6/10

I was hoping GirlHouse would stand out among the numerous teen slasher films but that wasn't the case. It's just another typical girl in peril film. Nothing new with this even with the supposed digital tech thing that doesn't add to the equation.

What annoyed me most was the use of headphones in this film. Why of why do these idiots where headphones all the time when you know they are about to get killed? The tech guy wears headphones while walking though the woods. One of the girls wears headphones while working out. And one of the girls wears ear buds to bed. Is that the formula to these types of movies, wear headphones because you're about to be murdered by a Jason Vorhess type killer.

And here is the other annoyance, why must all cellphones be put on vibrate when just about nobody does in real life? It's just dumb to think that this chick would put her cellphone on vibrate while carrying it in her purse. I even seen this in other films where somebody has their cellphone on vibrate while sleeping and phone goes off and they don't hear it. Why have it next to you at all if that's the case.

And here is another annoyance, when they do attack the killer, why don't they do follow through? They hit the killer one time and knocks him down. FINISH THE JOB LADIES!! But NOOOOO!! He of course gets up and kills again, it's only after there is one lone survivor do we see this happen. He gets his head bashed in repeatedly to end the carnage.

This was so disappointing and you wonder why people talk back to the screen when you see imbeciles being killed. You hope they hear you scream at their stupidity. The Girlhouse factor in itself was boring as well, there was no eroticism in the girls' performances that would have at least made this worth watching. It's like having strippers who don't strip.

The movie begins as a kids movie. Then it turns out as a nice and a not very known world of porn sites. We see two worlds: a nice girl student at college and a choice she made to pay her tuition. So far it was OK But then, the movie turned into a sycho-horror movie just about killing. Boring all over. By the way, we are fed up with killing with no sense. So many naïve (stupid) errors in the film: the main character didn´t see the missed call from her boyfriend, but we could. The girl who got her fingers cut out could talk, but she didn´t think about telling the address. She just wanted to write it down without fingers. And so on, and on... Really bad movie Rating: 1 out of 10

Opening sequence was good, set the scene, then turned into poop. massive plot wholes, he literally got away with murder/didn't get institutionalised/Was still able to get a job for with murder on his record? I dunno maybe I'm overthinking it, but then for the police to initially turn away from murder? What so there is no IT people working for the police now? None of the other 100's/1000's of watchers called the police? It's not really a plot whole but I'll have a moan about it anyway, the "security guards"? Really? A big fat leatherhead looking mf doesn't ring alarm bells instantly? No guns? No taper? might as well of given the job to the junkie she'd probably have been just as effective

Good Points:

-Not terrible characters.

-The acting is decent.

-Very good acting and emoting by the killer is great and it really is one of the high points of the film.

-Engaging enough story and script, if cliché at points.

-The creepiness element from the killer is well done, as is the build-up to his anger. All within the realm of believability.

Bad Points:

-The depiction of nudity and sex is expected, when it comes to the plot, but it goes above what is needed for the plot and into being thinly veiled porn itself. Far too excessive for my taste, having not been done non-sexually or reasonably.

-The horror aspect is not subtle when it comes to gore or blood. May be your taste, but not mine.

Overall:

I would love to see this killer in another movie, as the psychological aspect is better done in this movie than the stalking horror aspect. The dialogue between the main couple about the morality of the GirlHouse is quite good, as is the Rear Window reference at the beginning of the scene. All in all, I cannot suggest the movie due to the graphic sexual content, but the progression of the killer is more than the movie deserves.