Movie Review - Girl House

Girl House

2014

Brookstreet Pictures : Lightning Entertainment / Signature Entertainment / eOne Films

6.75 / 10

This is the slasher picture of modern times.  In the era where webcams are becoming more popular, especially in the sex industry, this asks the question, do you know who's watching you?

Instead of cam'ing on their own, this brings a group of beautiful girls together at the Girl House owned and run my an internet entrepreneur.  This gives paying viewers a chance to watch the girls at sleep, rest, and play.  Unfortunately for the girls, one of their viewers is Loverboy, a mentally unstable character with a violent and abusive past.

Even though the characters are very stereotypical of this type of film the cast breath new life into them, especially Slaine who plays the troubled Loverboy.

It also helps that the directors Jon Knautz and Trevor Matthews have the skill to create tension and to be able to build up the pace and excitement when needed.  This, in turn, makes it an entertaining film.

One of the main things I loved about the film was the shallow character of Devon, played well by Alyson Bath.  Though it wasn't all down to her portrayal it was her character and how it changed once Loverboy attacked.  It's an original ending to the character, though totally believable and sad... and one of the reasons I liked the movie.  It just elevates it above a normal slasher flick.

There are a couple of issues that niggled me, I know that Loverboy needs to be a computer hacker to be able to find the Girl House, though his character doesn't come across as that type of person.  The other was the stereotypical killers mask... why did he even need to wear one, again it seemed out of character - it'd be nice if a stalker for once, didn't go, Myers, Voorhees or Leatherface, on us.

This is a decent film and at least worth watching once, even more so, if you like the genre.