The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

This anthology film starts in a refreshing manner. A standard family emerge from their home in sunny suburbia to have dinner at a neighbours'. Whereas often the family would be swapping cutesy witticisms with each other, this one is arguing and cursing before their own front door is shut behind them. As it turns out, this family returns to feature in the last of this trio of tales involving various bloody misdeeds that have occurred in the basement of this house over the years.Of the three stories, the first is an enjoyably perverse, open-ended piece in which hints are given about possible unsavoury relations between four family members involved in a séance.The second is my favourite, and features a gleefully animalistic character who keeps his 'guests' in two cages. One, he abuses regularly but keeps alive – she is his 'audience'. The second cage is used far more regularly, as the unfortunates he brings to that one don't live for very long after he begins to systematically torture them in various graphic ways. The relationship takes on an almost humorous familiarity before it, too, ends with no real sense of closure.And to the third story, which deals with the original family being tortured also, in various horrifying ways – perhaps the worst is the daughter of the house stabbed multiple times and then thrown into a bath of lemon juice. Without any real narrative, however, this emerges simply as scenes of torture for the sake of it.There's no real conclusion to the overall story either, which is disappointing, other than now, in the present day, someone has actually brought the property, and already there is a body in the basement … This is an odd experience. At turns gratuitous, funny, but ultimately fairly plot less.

"I'd go so far as to call The Perfect House one of the most pointless, soulless, ugly, and disgusting horror films of the past ten years...and that's precisely what these filmmakers are after." - Scott Weinberg, FEARnet Mr. Weinberg's comments are so dead-on, I just had to repeat them. I wished I'd read his review before I wasted $5 on this sub-amateurish torture-porn farce that's really only tolerable when it's making fun of itself, which unfortunately isn't often enough.The Perfect House is something like a car wreck: a film so poorly acted, so abominably shot and edited that most times you simply can't believe what you're seeing. It's hard to look away from because you can't imagine any filmmaker would expect this tripe to be taken seriously. And that's just the technical aspect.This is a cobbled-together home-made POS with not one shred of redeeming value as a horror film (or any film). These "filmmakers" are not movie lovers. It's doubtful whether they've even seen a movie or maybe are just incompetent at operating the $200 software package they obviously used to edit with (after they recorded it on their five-year-old Handycam). No, these people are hucksters pure and simple. They know they're pulling one over on you and worse, they want you to know it. Either that, or they are dumber than they obviously assume that you are.Here's a quick run-down of the film's "plot": It's an Anthology film (of course...since all the 'plots' are ludicrously flimsy and clichéd, unable to sustain a full length film certainly) about an "evil" house that drives ordinary people to commit murderous acts (weak attempts at the type of black humor horror done quite well in EC Comics stuff like "Creepshow"). Almost all the segments feature ridiculously hollow, hammy villains who mete out particularly vile tortures for no reason...to many children, no less. I guess they couldn't get away with torturing animals, thank god. There are few good "effects" --- most of the violence is done in cutaway or is blurred or sped-up to mask the VFX guys incompetence or the lack of budget. Speaking of budget, what ghetto did they film this supposed "dream house" in?Yes, TPH is gory, gross, and nauseating. Some of the best horror films are. What they are not, is puerile, shoddily made, and insulting. Sam Raimi's Evil Dead, this is not. It's not even fourth-rate swill like "Don't Look in the Basement" or a camp horror film that's a pleasure because it is so bad (the "Sleepaway Camp" films featuring Felissa Rose, who does scream well here). These guys might be able to daydream about being that good one day, but they'll probably just wind up watching these other films on cable.Just because a film has no money doesn't mean it has to suck. But that requires technique, good camera set-ups, and actors who actually are capable of and want to do a decent job. Oh yes, and a script whose lines aren't complete recycled garbage from bad '60s drive-in fare and actually reflect how people speak, with hints to their characters' motivations and back stories and....What's the point? If you agree that those things are important, run as fast as you can from this film. It is a dangerous piece of "art" --- simply because making it a success will no doubt egg on other charlatans to follow the money trail with yet another poorly made con job.

I had high hopes for this film since it was given to me by a friend and recommended as a must watch, but the video quality, acting and poor directing of this film was to much for me to handle. Now granted I did not watch till the end but after 40 min of mind numbing torture I had to turn this film off.In the age of digital cinema one would expect the use of a high quality camera to shoot, but the grainy unfocused shots lead me to believe this was shot on a lower level camera and not one befitting a feature film. Now I am not sure who is responsible for the directing but by the fact that Co-Director Randy Kent is not attached to the 2nd attempt at a franchise I would guess it was the other director. I would say pass on this film as well as the unwise attempt at a 2nd in the series which looks like as of this review is currently in production. However if you believe that "The Room" is the greatest movie ever shot then this is in fact a must see for you.

I must admit that when I went into the screening of The Perfect House I didn't know what to expect but after watching I have to say that it was a great horror movie and a sick and twisted one at that filled with all the gore to satisfy even the hardest of core horror movie fans.What we get here is three different stories all revolving around the same house and more so the basement. Bad things are on tap for sure. Things start off with a young couple (Will Robertson, Andrea Vahl) thinking they are about to find their Perfect House. They are showed the house by a sexy but sadistically seeming Realtor(Monique Parent).We are now taken to a black and white segment which is a tribute to Hitchcock and tells us of the first thing to happen in the house when a family is trapped in the basement during a bad storm and this terrifying mother(Kris Smith) who torments them all. Most of the violence is off screen in this one but there is still some good teases including a decapitation.Our second story and my favorite of all of them is about a psychotic madman who keeps his victims in cages in the basement. Keeping one girl to watch as his body count piles up. Jonathan Tiersten (Sleepaway Camp) and Holly Greene(The Cutting Room) play off each other to make this an instant classic. Top notch acting for both of them and that's not to take away from the male cage victim(Hans Hernke) who does a great job also. This section of the movie has some of the best gore I've seen in years in a movie and really shows how psychotic a person can get and with the smart writing by Kris Hulbert you never doubt for a second that are you are watching one of the sickest people ever.Our third story is the story we get a tease of in the opening of the film. It's about a neighbor who takes not getting his weed trimmer back way too far. This segment has some moral gray areas in it for sure but they are all still enjoyable and more blood for all you horror fans like myself. You get a family tied up in the basement by a sadistic stranger(Dustin Stevens) who is angry cause he didn't get his weed trimmer back. Here we will have two YOUNG children fight to the death(off camera) to save their mother(Felissa Rose) from being killed. It might seem like a simple premise but its actually quite the story.Last but not least we get a tease of what will certainly be the main story for a sequel in which the character Steve(Chris Raab) will be a big part of I'm thinking and I look forward to it, it was a great setup and horror fans are gonna flip over it.The movie also stars John Philbin, Timothy Dugan,Tyler Nemeth, Alex Markousis and Jamie Baker with a cameo from ex playboy playmate Angelina Leigh.It is also the first movie to ever premiere on Facebook so check it out for only $5. I highly recommend it.....