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Caitlyn <\/span>Nakatsukasa | Freelancer<\/span><\/p>\n Matt Angel\u2019s movie \u201cThe Open House<\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/i> was released on Netflix on Jan. 19.<\/span><\/p>\n In \u201cThe Open House\u201d<\/span>,<\/span><\/i> a mother, Naomi, played by Piercy Dalton, and her son Logan, played by Dylan Minnette, temporarily move into a family member\u2019s home temporarily after the sudden passing of Logan\u2019s s father. However, the house is in the process of being sold, meaning there are many open house events taking place, resulting in different people showing up to the house. After moving in they notice strange events happening in their home. These occurrences include door banging, objects moving and shadows passing by. As the characters encounter uncanny people around town and witness peculiar episodes at the home, they start to believe there\u2019s someone always around them everywhere they go.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ll be honest; if I had to make a list of all the horror movies I\u2019ve watched ranked from best to worst, this movie would probably be on the bottom half of that list. I felt as though the plot line was inadequate. Many of the scenes didn\u2019t make sense and didn\u2019t tie into the main storyline. The viewers were never given \u00a0a backstory for the antagonist, so they\u2019re left hanging throughout the movie. There are jump-scare scenes every so often but they\u2019re often predictable and sometimes illogical. The ending of the movie was the most frustrating. It lacked depth and didn\u2019t answer any questions I had throughout the movie <\/span>\u2014 <\/span>it didn\u2019t connect with the any of the previous scenes I had been confused about. <\/span><\/p>\n Despite my brutal opinion of the movie, I thought the best part about \u201cThe Open House\u201d was the actors immense talents to pull their work off. I loved their acting <\/span>\u2014 I felt the emotions resonate through the screen and could relate to the characters a lot. <\/span>If you\u2019re an avid watcher of Netflix, you may be familiar with the appearance of Minnette, who starred in Netflix\u2019s show \u201c13 Reasons Why.\u201d Minnette and Dalton did a splendid performance portraying their characters in the movie. They work well in the horror genre and it was exciting to see familiar actors again.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe Open House\u201d has great actors but lacks enough premise for \u00a0a basic storyline. It would\u2019ve been better if they added background stories to the characters, so they\u2019d be more relatable to the storyline or build tension of scary scenes that could tie into upcoming events. If you are a fan of clich\u00e9 horror movies this may be a suitable movie of your choice.<\/span><\/p>\n Contact the author at cnakatsukasa15@wou.edu<\/span><\/p>\n Photo by:\u00a0netflix.com<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Caitlyn Nakatsukasa | Freelancer Matt Angel\u2019s movie \u201cThe Open House\u201d was released on Netflix on Jan. 19. In \u201cThe Open House\u201d, a mother, Naomi, played by Piercy Dalton, and her son Logan, played by Dylan Minnette, temporarily move into a family member\u2019s home temporarily after the sudden passing of Logan\u2019s s father. However, the house […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1030,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}