Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube
    • Home
    • Film Reviews
      • Films Beginning With Numbers or Symbols
      • A – C
      • D – F
      • G – I
      • J – L
      • M – O
      • P – R
      • S – U
      • V – X
      • Y – Z
    • Book Reviews
    • Franchise Corner
    • Competitions
    • HorrorScreams Podcast
    • Contact Us
    Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube

    Peter 'Witchfinder' HopkinsBy Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins21st July 2019Updated:21st July 2019No Comments2 Mins Read
    Share
    Facebook Twitter Email
    GIRL HOUSE **** Canada 2014 Dir: Trevor Matthews. 99 mins.

    A strong, suspenseful directorial debut for Canadian actor / writer Trevor Matthews (best known as the star of JACK BROOKS MONSTER SLAYER), this has a brutal opening in which a humiliated pubescent boy violently avenges his treatment by a pair of cruelly giggling girls. He grows up to be shlubby, sweaty, gibbering social misfit Slaine, who frequents a hugely popular porn site named “Girl House”, ostensibly a porn version of the Big Brother house in which an assortment of well paid, performing hotties are captured 24/7 for the masturbatory pleasure of the paying public.
    He is particularly drawn to their latest recruit, wholesome student Ali Cobrin, and his technological capabilities allow him to penetrate Girl House’s supposedly invulnerable systems and murderously invade the house itself. Offering a passing commentary on the changing face of pornography in the 21st century and also several nods to a classic study of voyeurism from a far different era (Hitchcock’s REAR WINDOW), GIRL HOUSE functions well as a contemporary slasher flick, delivering the abundant nudity the set-up promises, alongside familiar slasher elements including the down-trodden antagonist avenging his mistreatment by society at large. It’s wittier than most, however, with some smart dialogue, neat incidental details (notably the cutaways to “typical” Girl House viewers at two very different time periods) and a streak of gallows humour that stretches to the grimly funny sight of a girl with no fingers trying in vain to type an SOS message. Cobrin is an appealing heroine while Slaine totally convinces as the twitchy misogynist who sprints at his victims in an unsettling feminine mask and long black wig (shades of Leatherface). It isn’t afraid to get nasty on us: one comely young femme is choked on her own dildo and another bleakly offs herself rather than face a future with her beauty tarnished.

    Review by Steven West


    Facebook0Like0Share0Tweet0Pin0
    Girl House Slasher Trevor Matthews

    Related Posts

    Film Review: IT CUTS DEEP (2020)

    15th March 202103 Mins Read
    Read More

    THE SLASHER APP offers FREE advertising to struggling horror businesses

    25th February 202102 Mins Read
    Read More

    PROM NIGHT: Original 1980 Motion Picture Soundtrack

    3rd February 202105 Mins Read
    Read More

    New trailer and poster released for THE LEGEND OF FALL CREEK

    20th January 202111 Min Read
    Read More

    Leave A Reply Cancel Reply

    Search The Website
    https://youtu.be/xvqaEFk5nUs
    HORROR SHORT STORY WRITING COMPETITION
    Recent Posts
    • Bloody Good Clip from ‘I Had a Bloody Good Time at House Harker’
    • The Christopher Lee Collection Now Available from Bayview Entertainment
    • New Trailer released for the action packed horror ‘WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME’
    • Graphic Novel, ‘Stay Alive’ nominated for Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award
    • NEW TRAILER RELEASED FOR “DEATH RINK” HEADS ARE GONNA ROLL!
    Archives
    Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube

    Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.