Farm House (2008)

Please don't spend money on this.

Absolutely amazing

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Farm House is a wonderful movie. It starts with a woman looking sad and down at something. Then there is a scene in a church with a little girl named Scarlet, her mother, and a man who sits behind Scarlet and tells her her father was a friend of his. It then switches to an adult Scarlet and her husband Chad and they move to Seattle. On the way there in the middle of nowhere they get into a wreck and see a farm house and go to see if they can get help. They meet a husband and wife there named Samael and Lilith and another guy who is deaf named Alal and they are very friendly to Scarlet and Chad and say the crash knocked out the phone line and they can spend the night. When they're at the table for dinner, they notice something odd when the husband acts very mean to the deaf guy and the deaf guy gets something in a bag to eat when the rest of them get a great meal. Scarlet and Chad assume that the couple is slightly crazy but they are very nice to them and they don't make too much of it. They're taken to their rooms and they notice strange lights and sounds coming from the barn. Chad gets up and sees Samael and Lilith having sex and Lilith sees Chad and smiles, shocking Chad. Later that night Lilith talks to Chad and rubs her fingers on his arms. Later while Scarlet's in bed, she is woken up by Samael and grabbed. Chad is knocked out by Samael. He is woken up in the basement and Scarlet is being tied up by Lilith to be dipped into water to be tortured. She is dipped in and out and she and Chad are taunted during this. Chad is given a chance to save her but can't. Samael and Lilith leave and Chad is able to resuscitate Scarlet. They attempt to leave and Scarlet climbs out the window with the help of Alal. Lilith confronts Chad and he knocks her out. Samael goes after Scarlet and catches Alal. He says he'll cut Alal's eyes out if she doesn't come to him by the time he counts to a number. She doesn't and he cuts one of his eyes out then cuts Alal's throat. Scarlet comes and is taken by Samael and Lilith ties her up and tortures her by cutting her knee up with a cheese grater. Chad comes and kills Lilith by stabbing a thermometer or something into her head. Samael comes and is seemingly killed by being stabbed by Chad. Scarlet and Chad try to leave in a truck. Chad goes back for something. On the way back, Samael comes and attacks Chad and Chad makes it back to the truck and runs over Samael with the truck. As Chad and Scarlet are leaving, Scarlet asks Chad what's going on thinking that must have happened because Chad didn't pay money he owed to somebody. Chad stresses that he paid the money as he did earlier in the movie. Scarlet asks then why did they do that to them. He said they're crazy and f*cked up sh*t happens to people. Scarlet says not sh*t like this. Chad thinks it strange that it hasn't gotten light yet. They come across a house that they think they can get help at. Chad notices it looks just like the same place. Someone runs out of the house towards them. Samael and Lilith appear behind them. Samael is mangled and Lilith pulls the thing casually out of her head. Scarlet and Chad are shocked. They say things to each other and it is revealed that Chad and Scarlet were dead having died in their wreck and had been in Hell since then. Samael, Lilith, and Alal were demons and their forms change to intact with black eyes and black suits. Samael says it amuses him how surprised they are. (Which is my favorite line in the movie.) He then says there's someone who wants to meet you. Alal. Alal then comes from behind them, intact with black eyes and a black suit. And opens the barn door and the devil comes out and talks to Scarlet revealing he had been the gray-haired man who tried to temp her to evil in life because he wanted her in Hell. And it's revealed that they were in Hell because Scarlet drowned her baby because of learning he was disabled and wouldn't be able to have a normal life and Chad watched it upset but didn't intervene. Scarlet tells the devil he has to give them another chance. He asks if it would be any different. You hear her say no. I don't know if that means she said there wouldn't be a difference or if that was no in no I can't do this having been given another chance.

First i was reluctant to see this film, as i thought it was just another hostel type film...to a certain extent it was. it'll make you rethink about getting into a gambling debt with organized crime. either way by the time you get to the cheese grater scene things pick up REAL quick. i must say the ending was almost telegraphed with all the foreshadowing. but they keep it together long enough to hit you in the gut with the very dark menacing and bone chilling ending. and i heavily agree about the look of the film. it's low budget but you'll never know it, because it looks like a major mainstream picture. this should have definitely been a major release.this twisted little flick was a great find..

Chad and Scarlet are moving to a new city to start a new life. Things weren't so good in the old one. Chad has run up some debts and some bad men will stop at nothing to get their money. How Chad and Scarlet clear this marker is slowly revealed throughout the film. On the way to their new life Chad once again fouls things up and falls asleep at the wheel, causing a crash. Now on foot, the couple seek refuge in an old farmhouse where they are welcomed at first - and tortured next by the occupants - Lilith and her husband Samael. The cruel duo seem to know something of Chad and Scarlet's past and are exceptionally skilled torturers.The movie is not without any redemption. The production value was good. The acting was fine - though the characters themselves had little to offer. Screen writing 101 - if you want the audience to dislike a character simply have him gamble away all his savings and run up a huge debt - placing his family in mortal danger. Chad is a weak, ineffective character. His wife Scarlet is little better. So out of the gate it's difficult to root for them. However, one does hope they'll prevail if only to vanquish the true evil doers in the film - of which there are two sets; the largely unseen thugs threatening to kill Chad and his wife if they don't pay Chad's gambling debts and the duo of Lilith and Samael. Spoilers: But there is no vanquishing here. Evil prevails. The thugs get their blood soaked money and, save a brief few minutes of screen time, Lilith and Sam maintain the upper hand. We, the audience, are given not a single frame of film to breath. From the opening sequence to the end credits, the movie is depressing and/or tension filled. Shakespeare wrote that the audience must be allowed at least three moments in each play to breath and laugh. Farmhouse failed to deliver even one. I fear this is a sin I have committed a few times in my own efforts to make a film and am now sensitive to it.

"Farm House" is somewhat of an interesting movie. It starts off fairly good and just gets better.Once introduced to Samael and Lilith, I thought the movie was going to take a turn into something supernatural, so I was kinda expecting something to happen throughout the movie, but I was kept in suspense. Sure there were lots of thrills and some nice scenes, but never anything supernatural... Not until towards the end. Now, I am not going to give away more than this.The cast was good. Especially Steven Weber and Kelly Hu in the roles of Samael and Lilith, they did a nice job. They were just enough creepy and enough weird. But also the two leading parts were nicely acted out.Throughout the movie it is like you are following two different stories involving the same 2 leading cast. One story where they are at the farm house, and one story dealing with their loss of their child and them struggling with their debt. These two running story lines worked well together, and came together in a nice moment of clarity.Now, this is not a horror movie that will have you screaming and curling in fear. But there is enough suspense and thrills to keep most horror-fans interested.As for the ending, well, it did take that long awaited supernatural twist, but it was a bit too much. But hey, it is only a movie. Despite this ending, the movie was still quite enjoyable. Suitable for a night of staying indoors watching a movie.