Well, there is no doubt about the fact that I sat down to watch the 2016 movie "Home" because it was a horror movie, and also because it had Heather Langenkamp on the cast list.
And now that I have just finished watching writers Jeff Lam and Frank Lin's movie, I must admit that this was not really an outstanding horror experience. Sure, the movie was watchable, but it just wasn't a particularly great horror movie. It was essentially way too generic in its storyline, and there wasn't really much of anything spooky happening. Sure, there were some events going on, but it was not sufficiently enough.
And the ending of the movie was just so bland that I bet even a guy in a coma would sit up and say "are you serious?" Yeah, that was just very, very predictable ending, and one that didn't really do justice to the movie.
Director Frank Lin was just playing it way too safe in the way that the movie's story was executed and brought to life on the screen; it was as if he had a 'How to Make a Horror Movie' manual, and was following it chronologically step by step. And that made for a very generic and predictable movie.
The acting in the movie was actually adequate, taking into consideration the severe limitations imposed by a flaccid storyline.
Visually then "Home" leaves much to be wanting for, because the movie is not heavy on the usage of special effects. Whatever little effects were there served their purposes well enough, but this wasn't effects that were bedazzling or will blow you away.
"Home" doesn't bring anything new to the haunted house genre, and that is a factor that definitely keeps the movie from getting up and out of the generic runt that it was trotting around in.
All in all, "Home" is watchable a single time, because it was just too bland and generic. And truth be told, the storyline is so weak that it collapses under its own weight and cannot support more than a single viewing.
My rating of the 2016 movie "Home" lands on a less than mediocre four out of ten stars. If you enjoy a properly scary horror movie, then there are far better and far more scary movies readily available on the horror market.
