The Black House
The Black House
| 13 November 1999 (USA)
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A meek agent at the Showa Life Insurance company receives a phone call from a customer who says that she's planning to commit suicide and wants to know if her policy will pay out. Concerned about her safety, the agent visits her house only to find that her young son has hanged himself. As he investigates further, more and more people connected with this family start having "accidents," and if he's not careful, he might be next.

Reviews
Brightlyme i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.
Spidersecu Don't Believe the Hype
Cleveronix A different way of telling a story
Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
sgcim I don't know why this one hasn't been seen more. Excellent direction, acting, shooting, music and mood. It's definitely ripe for another USA, copy-cat production, and not much would have to be changed, because it's a fairly universal plot involving insurance scams, psychopaths and other fun stuff. The two other reviews mentioned the comical aspect of the meek insurance agent, but that's what made it so much fun to begin with, and created the necessary tension any good thriller needs. The director created a lot of great atmosphere which really drew you into the film, as opposed to a complete failure like "Carved (The Slit Mouthed Woman"), which had nothing going for it. I watched the two movies one after another, and the difference was night and day.
xabcx123x The problem with the majority of horror movies, and why I dislike most of them, is that the writers are so lazy or inept at character creation. Instead of drawing us into the film we're too often pushed away by their complete lack of human qualities to which we can relate; logic being the most neglected.A horror writer may be skilled at fantasizing a scene or story that is scary. However, when creating the character with whom we should follow into the horror fantasy they too often fail. They resort to having the character make completely stupid or illogical decisions in order to place them in harms way, and keep them there. This makes me want to scream and storm out of the theater or burst out laughing.I did much more laughing in this film. While the story and plot twist is pretty good the main character's actions are inexcusable. When a psycho killer is slowly approaching you with a knife a logical person will not stand and wait. Also that person will not run a short distance then wait for the killer to catch up. This movie should have ended way too many times but instead the cheap thrills just kept repeating themselves.
whatdoes1know An insurance salesman turns his life into a hellish nightmare by answering a phone call.I must admit this was the first "horror" movie I saw in a theater, and I was on the edge of my seat--that is until I just couldn't help laughing any longer. This isn't one of those movies where you throw your bag of pop-corn at the character on-screen who just decides to go check out what that screaking noise could possibly have been. You just laugh at the guy and his contorted expression, and when he decides to hang around longer in the killer's house while scaring himself silly--you just have to laugh at him! Whether intended or not, this effect made the movie a very enjoyable experience, and the movie also has one of the best *SPOILER* make-out-scene-editing that I have ever seen--no nudity.