A horror movie that takes after Ethan who is a young, his destiny makes him lose his parents and become the parent for his young brothers. Ethan managed to invent a device that can make the dead people back to the life. But things don't go so right as the device brings back bad people and terrifying events start to occur.
Burns and Parker don't have much new or exciting to offer. But with the help of a strong performance from Mann, they do a good job capturing one family's feelings of brokenness, and how far they'd go to get back what they lost.
"Our House" distinguishes itself with its purposeful pacing ... its use of sound and crosscutting, and its wit with household objects, from a turntable to a mechanical calendar.
What this still modest yet considerably slicker upgrade gains in surface gloss and FX, it loses in psychological intensity and suspension of disbelief - qualities the prior film's hand-made auspices heightened.
Our House thoughtfully examines how those traumas can affect the familial unit, and how the worst of circumstances can sometimes bring out the best in people, especially when their loved ones are in jeopardy.
Our House continues the 2018 trend - started by A Quiet Place and Hereditary - of horror movies that are as much about characters, emotions, and ideas as they are about scares.
Though it lacks the go-for-the-throat spirit seemingly required to succeed in the broader horror marketplace these days, its sincerity and polish should impress genre die-hards...