Highly Overrated But Still Good

Best movie ever!

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

I'll forgo a synopsis of 'This House Has People In It" because one can find and read it elsewhere. At first I thought the idea of using only security video footage to tell a story was a novel and interesting one but when the point of view changed such that it was impossible for the security camera to have captured it, the effect was jarring and annoying. That was my first gripe. My second was the response of the couple when they realized the unconscious girl had a problem. Who would not call 911 immediately? But they didn't and their odd behavior failed to suspend my disbelief. Then there was the peppering of viewer YouTube videos explaining THHPII. Most of the videos were longer than the original, some much longer. If a story needs to be explained then perhaps the story wasn't told well. I understand vague references are clever. I delight in esoterica but inside jokes and obscura do not a good story make. This House Has People In It spent too much time trying to show how smart it was. The final result was not as bad as, say, Plan Nine From Outer Space, but it wasn't nearly as much fun either. But it was mercifully shorter.

The odd Adult Swim "infomercials" series of sorts contains practically all of their best content (other than, obviously, Tim and Eric and The Eric Andre Show), and seems to be where they let their creators really have fun and go mad at play. Directed by the brilliant and twisted humorist, satirist, performance artist, and horror filmmaker Alan Resnick, the Adult Swim crew's own mini David Lynch, 'This House Has People in It' is unapologetically bizarre and occasionally confusing. It is an uncomfortable and genuinely quite creepy combo of comedy and chaos. It is surreal and scary and surprisingly hilarious, very much like practically every project worked upon by Mr. Resnick, and I love the man for it! Now, I am in all probability off to view various analysis videos of this along with a boatload of disturbed rewatchings!

"This House Has People in It" is a 12-minute live action short film from last year (2016). It runs for 12 minutes only and was directed by Alan Resnick. He is also one of the writers here. This is an Adult Swim production and actually one of many. I think that frequently they mostly made comedy movies, but this one here is (according to IMDb) horror only. It actually looks like Big Brother footage from, start to finish and this also took away a lot of the appeal at least for me. Cast members are not well-known at all. Story is so-so and as such, it is probably still one of the better components here, but really only because most of the other stuff is entirely forgettable. I personally can only say that if Adult Swim was ever good (and I think they were), then they have really gone south in recent years and this one here is a good piece of evidence for that. I think 4 stars out of 10 (or 2 stars out of 5) is still pretty generous as I really see almost no creativity in here. Watch something else instead. And don't be fooled by the baity picture here on the title's IMDb page.

One day, a family is about to celebrate their son's birthday party,when something strange begins to occur.This short film is what all horror movies should stride to be. It didn't scare me because I though a jump scare would happen, it scared me because of the unknown.This short film is very similar to the likes of "Too Many Cooks" and "Unedited Footage of a Bear". This film being made by the same people that made "Unedited Footage of a Bear", it's a great improvement. While "Unedited Footage of a Bear" tried to subtly teach us a lesson, "This House Has People in It" is just good old horror.This short horror movie will definitely be up there with the likes of "The Blair Witch Project" and "Alien". Check it out as soon as you can -HashtagBrownies