FilmRFound Footage Psychological Survival

Home Movie2008

Name: Home Movie
Genre: Found Footage, Psychological, Survival
Released: 2008-10-23
Rating: 5.6

“Some memories are best forgotten.”

Directed by Christopher Denham

5.6

Crypt Score

Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 5.5TMDB 5.0

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Year

2008

Runtime

77 min

Box Office

🏆 1 win & 1 nomination

The premise

Reverend David Poe and his psychiatrist wife trade hectic New York life for an idyllic rural farmhouse; the perfect place for 10 year old twins Jack & Emily to run, play and imagine. Documenting this lifestyle change, David decides to film every holiday and special family event. To the Poe's horror their home movies reveal an increasing malice and evil within their children.

Horror Vault's take

When a reverend and his psychiatrist wife relocate their family to a quiet rural farmhouse, they begin capturing their new life on a home camera — and what the footage reveals about their twin children is far more disturbing than anything they could have anticipated. As the couple's professional frameworks of faith and psychology collide, the behavior of young Jack and Emily escalates from unsettling to genuinely terrifying. Shot in an intimate, voyeuristic style that makes every family gathering feel uncomfortably close, Home Movie mines its horror from the most domestic of settings. This is a slow-burn descent into dread that refuses to look away from the family at its center.

Content: Disturbing Child Behavior, Animal Harm, Psychological Distress, Violence