House of Darkness
Movie • 2016 • Horror
ReportInspired by true events, the supernatural thriller "House of Darkness" recounts the mysterious case of a San Francisco family who claimed that a dark force was responsible for the tragic events that unfolded. Trying to save their struggling marriage Kelly (Sara Fletcher, "Adulthood"), her husband Brian (Gunner Wright, "J. Edgar") and their daughter Sarah (Mykayla Sohn, "The Chosen") move to a rural farmhouse in search of some serenity. Unbeknownst to them, nearly every family that has lived in the house has suffered some form of tragedy, dating back nearly 100 years. Shortly after their arrival, Kelly begins to sense that her husband’s behavior is growing increasingly strange and violent. Kelly also comes to discover the voices she’s hearing echoing through the halls, are not coming from her daughter. Will Kelly and her family be the next victims of the dark forces in the house?
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The daughter’s birds die violently (not shown dying, but we see them at the bottom of the cage and it is graphic)
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the daughter’s birds are decapitated
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they find the daughter (alive and creepy) sealed in the basement; husband “has” to kill daughter because he is possessed and she seems very scared on a call to her mom before the signal cuts out
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possessed by whatever is wrong with the house, the husband keeps imagining killing his wife and threatens and screams at her; keeps locking away his tools because he grabs them with the apparent intent to kill her, but they keep mysteriously being set free
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former owner of the house killed two children on Halloween decades ago and then locked himself in the basement until he starved (with creepy drawings in the room they found him in that the daughter later appears in too)
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Woman in prison has the words “we see what we choose to see” carved into her arm and mostly healed over
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is there sexual content?
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wife wants another baby and wears lingerie for her husband under a robe; husband keeps jealously hallucinating that his neighbor is having sex with his wife’s sister or that his wife is into him (projecting, and he keeps checking out the neighbor’s wife)
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Are there abusive parents?
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Husband is possessed and implied that he was going to hurt daughter
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Not necessarily for the wife and her child, it’s left open and could go either way but the husband died so that he could escape “the darkness” that was telling him to kill them, so they are safe from that now. Another family moves onto the property, though, at the end, and it seems the darkness is far from gone
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Does a kid die?
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Two children are murdered many halloweens ago, still in their Halloween costumes; we don’t see anything, but we hear them scream and are later vaguely told what happens
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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not directly, but the dad mentions some comments his coworkers made about his wife being a massage therapist that were inappropriate
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Is someone gaslighted?
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husband blames wife for being suspicious about him and is jealous of her massage business even though he’s the one who keeps checking out the neighbor and imagining her; wife is blamed by police for killing her husband for life insurance money even though she didn’t do it and was still grieving his loss
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Is someone burned alive?
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Thought that the husband burned himself alive to escape “the darkness,” scene with the whole house ablaze
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Are there nude scenes?
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The wife wore lingerie and the husband was shirtless, but nothing was seen
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Not confirmed mentally ill, but people call her cr*zy; poisons herself before she poisoned her family because the spirit wouldn’t leave her alone until she killed them, didn’t let her die and the family was dead when she returned home
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Is someone stalked?
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Woman is taken into stretcher with an oxygen mask because her face is really swollen and I imagine she was having trouble breathing
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there decapitation?
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little girl says “I’ll cut off their heads” creepily about her birds and they are shown decapitated at the bottom of their cage a few scenes lately
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Is there copaganda?
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there are police who help the family find their daughter, not sure if that counts
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Are there bugs?
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Psychic that the woman brought to the house is trapped in her car with bees (?) swarming her and is taken away by an ambulance with her face swollen and barely breathing
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Not a child’s toy, but the husband is given a smiley face stress ball in couple’s therapy and it’s later shown charred after he died in a house fire yet still smiling ominously at the bottom of the stairs a year later when a new family is moving in
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Does a non-human character die?
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ghost children are killed by a dark entity in the house (earlier presenting as a large male shadow in the doorway) to keep them from warning the living girl in the house
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Black neighbor is seen as sexual threat by husband in the beginning of the movie just because he’s buff and black
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Is someone restrained?
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someone is briefly locked in a basement and jiggles the handle begging to be let out
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Does a parent die?
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The dad dies in a house fire that he supposedly started on purpose
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Does someone cheat?
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It was either a dream or a hallucination (not real), but the scantily-clad neighbor that the husband kept checking out came over to his workshop and laid on top of him before the scene changed; no nudity or anything shown, but strong implications and the husband grabbed two beers out of his fridge for them, clearly not trying very hard to reject her advances
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Does a family member die?
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A woman who the wife visits in prison is there because she (somewhat unconsciously?) killed her whole family, their bodies shown slumped on the dining room table after being poisoned; the husband is implied to have killed himself in a fire that burned the house
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone possessed?
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The house makes everyone do really weird things
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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not exactly but some of the main characters record video diaries which could seem like they’re talking to the viewer
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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husband says “it’s not drinking alone if there are other people on the property”
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Is someone stabbed?
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it was a dream but yes and it’s bloody
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Not directly, but it is implied that the dad sacrificed himself in the house fire to save himself from “the darkness” that would not stop until it possessed him to kill his family… so I guess he killed himself so that his wife and daughter could live
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sexual jokes are made about the wife being a massage therapist
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Former owner of house is in jail for killing her family, but she was possessed to do it by the house and claims she didn’t do it herself
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