Farm House (2008) Reviews

• wonderful movie

  jmhammerstein-980-8425862016-09-22

  Farm House is a wonderful movie. It starts with a woman looking sad and down at something. Then there is a scene in a church with a little girl named Scarlet, her mother, and a man who sits behind Scarlet and tells her her father was a friend of his. It then switches to an adult Scarlet and her husband Chad and they move to Seattle. On the way there in the middle of nowhere they get into a wreck and see a farm house and go to see if they can get help. They meet a husband and wife there named Samael and Lilith and another guy who is deaf named Alal and they are very friendly to Scarlet and Chad and say the crash knocked out the phone line and they can spend the night. When they're at the table for dinner, they notice something odd when the husband acts very mean to the deaf guy and the deaf guy gets something in a bag to eat when the rest of them get a great meal. Scarlet and Chad assume that the couple is slightly crazy but they are very nice to them and they don't make too much of it. They're taken to their rooms and they notice strange lights and sounds coming from the barn. Chad gets up and sees Samael and Lilith having sex and Lilith sees Chad and smiles, shocking Chad. Later that night Lilith talks to Chad and rubs her fingers on his arms. Later while Scarlet's in bed, she is woken up by Samael and grabbed. Chad is knocked out by Samael. He is woken up in the basement and Scarlet is being tied up by Lilith to be dipped into water to be tortured. She is dipped in and out and she and Chad are taunted during this. Chad is given a chance to save her but can't. Samael and Lilith leave and Chad is able to resuscitate Scarlet. They attempt to leave and Scarlet climbs out the window with the help of Alal. Lilith confronts Chad and he knocks her out. Samael goes after Scarlet and catches Alal. He says he'll cut Alal's eyes out if she doesn't come to him by the time he counts to a number. She doesn't and he cuts one of his eyes out then cuts Alal's throat. Scarlet comes and is taken by Samael and Lilith ties her up and tortures her by cutting her knee up with a cheese grater. Chad comes and kills Lilith by stabbing a thermometer or something into her head. Samael comes and is seemingly killed by being stabbed by Chad. Scarlet and Chad try to leave in a truck. Chad goes back for something. On the way back, Samael comes and attacks Chad and Chad makes it back to the truck and runs over Samael with the truck. As Chad and Scarlet are leaving, Scarlet asks Chad what's going on thinking that must have happened because Chad didn't pay money he owed to somebody. Chad stresses that he paid the money as he did earlier in the movie. Scarlet asks then why did they do that to them. He said they're crazy and f*cked up sh*t happens to people. Scarlet says not sh*t like this. Chad thinks it strange that it hasn't gotten light yet. They come across a house that they think they can get help at. Chad notices it looks just like the same place. Someone runs out of the house towards them. Samael and Lilith appear behind them. Samael is mangled and Lilith pulls the thing casually out of her head. Scarlet and Chad are shocked. They say things to each other and it is revealed that Chad and Scarlet were dead having died in their wreck and had been in Hell since then. Samael, Lilith, and Alal were demons and their forms change to intact with black eyes and black suits. Samael says it amuses him how surprised they are. (Which is my favorite line in the movie.) He then says there's someone who wants to meet you. Alal. Alal then comes from behind them, intact with black eyes and a black suit. And opens the barn door and the devil comes out and talks to Scarlet revealing he had been the gray-haired man who tried to temp her to evil in life because he wanted her in Hell. And it's revealed that they were in Hell because Scarlet drowned her baby because of learning he was disabled and wouldn't be able to have a normal life and Chad watched it upset but didn't intervene. Scarlet tells the devil he has to give them another chance. He asks if it would be any different. You hear her say no. I don't know if that means she said there wouldn't be a difference or if that was no in no I can't do this having been given another chance.

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• Punishment

  kosmasp2015-08-13

  Sometimes the question is: How much can you take? But while other movies seem to relish in the torture aspect, this does have something to say. Might not be the "best" thing or told in the best way possible, but it's still something. And there is a very nasty scene in here, that might make you squirm. Even if you are used to the special effects, there are always things that can make you feel uncomfortable. And this movie is all about that. While I guess you can see a twist coming long before it arrives, it shouldn't take anything from your enjoyment (if you can call it that). Good performances in this very strange (in a good way) movie, that succeeds even with a small budget

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• Farm House

  a_baron2015-02-04

  After her jerk of a husband racks up a $25,000 debt with a couple of underground bookmakers, a pregnant woman has a visit in her kitchen from a stranger who holds a knife to her throat. She loses the baby shortly after it is born, and the two of them decide to relocate to another part of the country away from his creditors. Not content with this, and ignoring her advice, he continues to drive while clearly tired, and falls asleep at the wheel, crashing their car miles from anywhere, but of course there is an isolated house nearby, a farm house in this case, which is inhabited by a hospitable although somewhat strange individual, his wife and their deaf farm hand. They're being incommunicado, they are invited to stay the night. Clearly their host is a bit creepy, but it is not the sort of thing you can put your finger on, and what other option do they have? It is clear too from the beginning that this house is more "Hotel California" than "Little House On The Prairie", but what comes next? Their, or rather his, earlier misadventures are told in flashbacks, wherein we learn that the debt is actually much more than $25,000. There is it is true a spectacular twist at the end, one most people will not have seen coming, although there was a hint with the photographs on the wall, and the farmer's wife insisting on taking their photographs too. The real question is though, is it worth sitting through the preceding gratuitous sadism that most viewers will have foreseen, if not the actual quantum?

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• Farmhouse Sends Viewers Straight to Hell

  MichaelRAllen2009-01-14

  SPOILER: Using a back story and flashbacks "Farmhouse," drifts back and forth between the past and present while delivering an interesting story of a couple on the run. William Lee Scott plays the father of a handicapped child and Jamie Anne Allman the mother; both actors deliver a performance rich in distress and anger at their situation. The story presents the struggles in dealing with a child who will never be normal or healthy and how a young couple chooses to cope with the situation. Slowly as the film progresses the actual environment in which the characters are attempting to get away from is given a reveal. In the "Farmhouse," the flashbacks actually work and breathe new energy into a sometimes brutally horrific cinema watching experience. The original score from Mark Petrie delivers a tone seemingly from ancient times as a woman's voice wails in low tones while string instruments fade in and out with the sound effects of the film. It is continually amazing how an original score can really amplify the intensity of a film and offer a one two punch as long as the story holds its own. In the "Farmhouse," both the musical composition and sometimes haunting visuals act as a team to create a harmonizing visual and aural experience. Never taking center stage, but heightening near the end of the film the score really adds its own personality to the "Farmhouse." Adding one of the most brutal torture scenes in recent movie history the "Farmhouse," does not shy from the gore or violence, yet the focus of the film is in delivering a tense, suspenseful story full of character insights. Steven Weber delivers a fine performance as Samael who seems to delight in the misfortunes of others while stalking, drowning, and basically tormenting other characters in the film. As well, Kelly Hu takes center stage and her characters brutal disfigurement of another female, with help from a cheese grater is almost completely unwatchable. However, each of the torture scenes is moving towards a frightening and shocking plot twist that few if any viewers might expect. Supernatural elements of hell, the afterlife, and consequences of actions are the main themes of this slightly serious film. Leaving the interpretation of right and wrong, and really when are judgements this clear, up to the viewer the fate of the central couple seems unjust, but not without some merit. The sudden shift in the last fifth of the film from a country house to the gates of hell, full of demons really gives the "Farmhouse," bonus points for originality. Staying within a mostly man versus man plot line the surprise ending of a couple attempting to save themselves from a life of damnation adds an unlikely, yet devilish little twist at the end of the film. Mostly unheard of supernatural, torture flick the "Farmhouse," will fully satiate horror fans with tales of extortion, and the (im)possibility of redemption. Starting off soft then immersing the viewer into the often times sick imagination of writer Daniel P. Coughlin, the "Farmhouse," is a cinema treat that must be seen. Enjoyable, surprising, and believable the "Farmhouse," can be found now at local movie stores as this film was given a late 2008 release date.

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• Why I gave this movie a "10"

  davemoore32009-10-11

  This film accomplished what too many thrillers, even though they may be entertaining, fail to do. That is to say AT NO POINT did I enjoy watching this movie! It was creepy, VERY disturbing, filled with an underlying tension on 2-3 different levels (i.e., 'did Scarlet blame & hate her spineless husband for their difficulties?', 'was he really such a self-centered coward?'), and I couldn't wait to see what the next flashback was going to reveal. Flashback is a tricky and too often ill-advised convention. It can be annoying when employed in books and confusing in films. Farm House was a veritable 'workshop' in how to use flashback effectively. In addition to the well-developed and excellently delivered story line,the cinematography was great, the characters were slowly and fully developed, and the ending,,,WHOA!!! A well done piece of cinema on all levels. One of the beauties of film is that we sometimes sit down to watch a movie with little or no expectations and end up being treated to a gem. Such was Farm House.

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