The Houses October Built — Film Review
You probably tested your mettle at a local scarehouse sometime in your childhood. It may have been a shitty ride at the state fair or an intense maze of scarecrows and clowns at the local farm. No matter what, we as humans understand fear and, deep down, know precisely what it takes to break our sense of safety. As time passes, humans are stomaching more and more horror. With that in mind, has humanity become desensitized to fear?
The Houses October Built is a found footage horror film that focuses on the tradition of haunted houses and humans’ desire to experience fear in a much more extreme manner than past generations. This generation of young whipper snappers aren’t traumatized by jump scares and flickering lights. Instead, the dulled minds of our young counterparts need safe words and physical assault. The movie begins with friends venturing across the American South, searching for the ultimate horror experience, the Blue Skeleton. Each of the haunted houses they go to further their need for a more extreme situation. The Blue Skeleton can bind you, torture you, and pretty much anything else. After experiencing some less-than-awesome haunted houses, they realize that creepers are following them. What ensues is a couple of genuinely good scares and exciting talking points.
