Directed by Ti West
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Dark Sky Films)
Desperate for money, college student Jocelin Donahue takes a babysitting job at a remote country house. The old guy who hires her is creepy and Jocelin and friend want to leave but he offers her too much money to turn down. So Jocelin is left alone in scary old mansion supposedly to watch after an elderly woman upstairs. She wanders around the house, dances to 80s music and orders pizza. She starts hearing strange sounds upstairs, goes to the attic and faints, apparently drugged by the pizza. She wakes up bound and tied in a pentagram as part of a satanic ritual. She manages to escape in a gore-soaked finale. The first hour or so is a painfully slow build-up, aside from an unnecessarily graphic murder, done in a tribute to 80s style. However, her escape from the cult reverts to fast cuts, strobing demon faces and extreme gore which places it firmly in the repulsive modern style of horror. Her final act in a cemetery is contrary to the character we have come to know throughout the film.
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