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Playhouse

  • 2020
  • 1h 27m
IMDb RATING
3.5/10
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Grace Courtney in Playhouse (2020)
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In a remote Scottish castle, an irreverent writer faces terrifying consequences when his daughter falls prey to an evil curse lurking within the walls.In a remote Scottish castle, an irreverent writer faces terrifying consequences when his daughter falls prey to an evil curse lurking within the walls.In a remote Scottish castle, an irreverent writer faces terrifying consequences when his daughter falls prey to an evil curse lurking within the walls.

  • Directors
    • Fionn Watts
    • Toby Watts
  • Writers
    • Fionn Watts
    • Toby Watts
  • Stars
    • Rebecca Calienda
    • Grace Courtney
    • Mathilde Darmady
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    3.5/10
    613
    YOUR RATING
    • Directors
      • Fionn Watts
      • Toby Watts
    • Writers
      • Fionn Watts
      • Toby Watts
    • Stars
      • Rebecca Calienda
      • Grace Courtney
      • Mathilde Darmady
    • 27User reviews
    • 30Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win total

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    Rebecca Calienda
    Rebecca Calienda
    • Kathryn
    Grace Courtney
    • Bee Travis
    Mathilde Darmady
    • Katie
    Julie Higginson
    • Samantha
    William Holstead
    • Jack Travis
    Helen Mackay
    Helen Mackay
    • Jenny Andrews
    Eilidh McLaughlin
    • Alex
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      • Toby Watts
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    2BrodyQuint

    Scary stopped here😴

    Hands down one of the worst movies I have ever seen and I watched every minute of it. I find it hard to believe this film belongs in the Thriller/Horror genre. There simply wasn't anything scary about it. My favorite genre has always been horror and the only terrifying aspect of this movie is it never got better, from it's acting to it's plot until it's last minute it just never got better and I watched every minute so I gave it every chance to impress. My rating 2 out of 10 is for the effort the film crew and cast put forward. This movie was bad but hey they did make a film, a really bad film but you can't give up, on to the next...
    2jstlucas

    Someone wake me up when it's over

    Reading the other reviews, I wonder if I watched a different movie. My wife and I thought the castle itself was really neat, but the story line itself just crawls, slowly, slowly. We thought something was going to happen and then saw there was only 20 minutes left in the film, by then we were just waiting for it to end. It wouldn't have been bad if the story had some suspense to it, and we just really could not care less what happened to ANYONE in the film so no investment in characters.
    7neilfrancis2

    Entertaining slow burner

    This worked for me. A good, slow building, stylish, supernatural movie that builds to a satisfying finish. The acting was good, William Holstead does a fine balancing act in the lead and keeps it just on the right side. Helen Mackay is terrific as Jenny (tho a course in how to use a sledgehammer wouldn't go amiss.) It also has a wonderful setting that is uses to full advantage. All round a fine debut feature from the Watts bros.
    4haskel-72951

    Dull: The Movie

    No need to go out of your way to see this. You've already seen it, many times, all done better than this. Low budget indie from the UK, with nothing original to say, I cannot recommend watching it.
    6ops-52535

    i wish i had a manor like that...

    With meter thick stonewalls, crypts and spiraling steep staircases, with corridors ending in a wall of newlaid stones, that hides the secrets of a grueling past, its almost like shakespeares epic story about a danish king at a stormy pit in the catholic scotland....anyway its not mine but the landscape is in fact just like where i live, with blistering wind over the foaming waves by the shoals near the end of the world, where the director has mended an impressing product of light and dark, love and hate and heaven and hell. the use of different camera angles makes you feel like a fly on the wall, the fast shifting settings makes you feel insecure, and the scares...well that depends on how drunk or shroomed you are.

    but its a slowburning quasihorror flick, that may have a fuse thats to long for the adrenaline seekers among us. though there arent any significant flaws in the production nor in the cast, it will be put in the neverending story bin, a bin that 50% of decently made horror flicks will lay and decay.

    but by all means its hi above the new normal of british filmproductions these days, so its a small recommend from the grumppy old man

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      During the shoot one of the crew members backed into a candle and set on fire in the dungeon. Luckily they were unharmed but now they wear the jacket as great conversation starter.

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    • Release date
      • November 17, 2020 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Official site
      • Official Website
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Проклятий будинок 4
    • Filming locations
      • Scotland, UK
    • Production company
      • Far North Film
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $48,787
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 27m(87 min)
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      • 2.39:1

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