{"id":30145,"date":"2022-07-07T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30145"},"modified":"2022-07-06T16:54:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T20:54:42","slug":"the-open-house-2018-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30145","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Open House&#8221; (2018) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z070722zview_theopenhouse.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Open House <\/strong><\/em>(2018)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Matt Angel, Suzanne Coote<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by:\u00a0 <strong>Matt Angel, Suzanne Coote<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:\u00a0 <strong>Dylan Minnette, Piercey Dalton, Patricia Bethune\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>Sharif Atkins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em>\u00a0 You can&#8217;t lock out what&#8217;s already Inside.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When her husband is hit by a car and dies, Naomi (Dalton) and her son, Logan (Minnette) are left in a financial bind.\u00a0 Naomi&#8217;s sister allows them to live in her secluded house that is up for sale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the day, it is an open house which creeps out Logan.\u00a0 He hates the idea that strangers roam through the house that he and his mother sleep in at night.\u00a0 Soon after Naomi and Logan move in, weird things begin to happen.\u00a0 Objects are moved, someone telephones but doesn&#8217;t speak, the pilot light on the water heater keeps going out and more.\u00a0 Logan and his mom realize that it could be one of the strange people that they&#8217;ve met in the neighborhood&#8230; but is this person a prankster or dangerous?\u00a0 They will soon find out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Open House<\/em> sets up an excellent premise for a horror film.\u00a0 It provides a supporting cast of possible folks who could be responsible for the weird stuff going on.\u00a0 Then it makes the two leads fairly unlikable and gives us an ending that (my wife) and I absolutely hated.\u00a0 In all fairness up until the ending, <em>The Open House<\/em> was on track to a two star rating, but that ending brought it down to one star of five.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_f.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z070722zview_theopenhouse2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Open House (2018) Director:\u00a0 Matt Angel, Suzanne Coote Screenplay by:\u00a0 Matt Angel, Suzanne Coote Starring:\u00a0 Dylan Minnette, Piercey Dalton,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30146,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30145\/revisions\/30146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}