Tuesday, September 14, 2021

The Wrong House (2012)

 Aka House Hunting

A random guy walking his dog in a neighborhood he doesn’t live in hands a home for sale flyer to Don, who is waiting for his family to come out of a house viewing. He doesn’t like the house so he’s refused to look at it, which begs the question why did his wife and son even bother?  

A flyer from a man who won’t identify himself or where he lives advertising a home for sale on 70 acres in the middle of nowhere?  Don sees nothing suspicious about that.  Damn it, Don!  Never trust a stranger handing out flyers which send you somewhere isolated where you could be murdered.

When Don and family arrive at the house, they find Charlie and his family already there. The door is open and there is a speaker system which provides info on the house when you press a button.  When they decide to leave, a girl darts out into the road causing Charlie to crash his car.   Although the car didn’t hit her, the girl is injured.  Everyone jumps into Don’s SUV so they can take the girl to the hospital.

Unfortunately all roads lead back to the house for sale. When they decide to spend the night, the girl freaks out and refuses to go in. It takes the two men to forcibly drag the injuring girl inside.  They don’t question why she doesn’t want to go in or even try to find out what happened to her. They’ve figured out she’s missing a tongue and she hates the house. Hmmm, what could be the problem?

As days pass with no way to get out off the property, the families start to argue and blame each other for the situation.  Paperwork shows that Charlie foreclosed on the house, so they blame him first. But both families end up having connections to the family who lived in the house.  Also everyone starts seeing people from their past who are dead.  

Questions abound.  Will they ever get out of this loop? Were there no pens or pencils in the house that the injured girl could write with to tell them what had happened to her? Why didn’t they question her? Who was putting cans of stew in the pantry? Why are teenage boys so creepy?  How many days does this movie take place over?  And most importantly, is there truly an unending supply of people who wronged the family who lived there or is the guy just a psychopath?  I mean, foreclosing on a house means the guy didn’t pay his mortgage which means he defaulted on his loan.  Unless I missed something where Charlie set him up so that the bank could seize his house, then it’s just bad money management or bad luck, not Charlie.


Worst pick up line ever

Can I kiss you? You remind me of my ex.

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