Touches You

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

The "horror" was just watching this thing. I've watched some bad films but this was probably the worse.

The late, great film reviewer Roger Ebert often used the phrase "idiot plot" in negative reviews. He was referring to film plots that depended on the main characters behaving like idiots in order to move the story along (for example, a young, scantily clad coed goes to check out a pitch black corridor all alone because she heard strange noises coming from it). In short, nobody in real life would ever behave the way the movie's characters do. So it is in The Open House. A recently widowed mother and her seemingly none too bright teenage son move into her sister's palatial mountain mansion because she can't afford the rent on her own house after her husband dies. The catch is the house is for sale so she and her son must leave for the realtor open houses every Sunday. During the first open house, a sinister figure seen only from the knees down comes to the showing. After it's over and they've returned home, son says to Mom that open houses are weird because you give people keys to your house so they can look at it when you're not home. But how do you know they ever leave the house? Therein lies the entire plot. Given the massive house and the number of rooms in it, of course the ominous stranger who possesses those legs we saw earlier is still there stalking them. These two are so ignorant of what's going on around them that the homicidal stranger climbs into bed with Mom and she doesn't even notice. How idiotic can a movie character get? Pass this turkey right on by. I don't even know why I watched it to the end. I guess I was just curious to see how bad the movie could get.

All the questions, never get answer. I watch this because of Dylan Minnette. Cannot believe he in this super-sucking movie.

I've never written a review. But this movie was so bad. I had to warn people from watching this. Nothing but a waste of time and the storyline is absolutely terrible.