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DVD Playing House
 Run time: 84 min Rating: 4.0 Genres: Thriller Director: Tom Vaughan Writers: Tom Vaughan, Kristy Dobkin Stars: Shelley Calene-Black, Mark C. Connelly, Alexandra Dorman |
| Storyline In this taut thriller, newlyweds Jen and Mitch find that three’s company and four’s a crowd when they ask their friend Danny to move in with them to share expenses. But a sweet situation turns sour when Danny invites a new person into the mix. Written by Maya Entertainment |
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| Plot Keywords: female nudity, sex scene | |
| Details: Country: USA Release Date: 25 February 2011 (USA) |
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DVD Playing House
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"I really do love you house, it's amazing. I want it." When newlyweds Mitch (Welzbacher) and Jen buy their first house they have trouble paying the mortgage. After asking Mitch's best friend Danny to move in they think they will have the time of their lives. When Danny brings home new girl friend Blair (Leal), the lives of all take a drastic turn. This is a strange movie to review. The movie itself is actually pretty good and makes you feel tense almost all the way through. The Blair character is very creepy (think of Sharron Stone is basic instinct, but more psycho.) One huge problem with the movie is that the acting is so bad that it almost distracts from the movie. Some of the scenes are a little over the top, but they fit the movie. For a B rate horror movie with no known actors this is actually a pretty pleasant surprise, just don't expect to see them in a lot of stuff (I wouldn't be surprised to see the girl playing Blair to be on an MTV reality show though, she is a few steps above the "Jersey Shore" but definite "Real World" material.) Overall if you can get past the acting this is actually a very good thriller, one of the better ones in a while. I give it a B- (the – because of the acting).
Would I watch it again? – I don't think I will.
*Also try – Basic Instinct & The Roommate
I believe this movie is a winner. Playing House does not go overboard nor slips to a poor or boring viewing. Within the theme of an innocent couple caught in the fateful hands of a scheming seductress, it delivers very well.
Good suspense throughout and you actually feel some shudder watching the stone-cold Mayra Leal(impressive as the femme fatale Blair).
Everybody else like Craig Welzbacher(as Dr.Mitch) and Sarah Prikryl(as Dr. Mitch's wife) are good too.
Not to mention, some steamy scenes now & then that really turns up the heat in this wild, suspense flick!
Verdict – Surprisingly good. And also, blissfully HOT 😉
I find it hard to believe that people would just let any ol' person into their own personal private living space without doing a little bit of research about them beforehand.
Mitch (Welzbacher) and Jen (Prikryl) are newlyweds and they invite Mitch's best friend, Danny (Lusk) to move in with them because they are in over their heads when it comes to mortgages and bills. There's no issues there…. but when Danny starts to get back into the dating world and meets Blair (Leal), things start to escalate.
I can understand friends who are married having a roommate — but when that friend starts to take advantages and liberties like bringing stray girls back to the house… it's time right there to let them loose onto the World. You would think boundaries and rules would have been discussed before the initial move-in, but I guess we would be mistaken. I'm willing to let a lot of things go in movies because they're supposed to suspend belief… but surely even movies aren't allowed to suspend stupidity, are they? The movie is fine… up until the 43rd minute. I know… it sounds silly that I would know the exact time stamp that this movie jumped over into the 'ok, I just can't take any more stupidity' factor… but that's exactly when it does. Watch it and tell me I'm wrong… because I don't know of one single person that would do what Mitch did… at exactly 43 minutes into this mess of a movie.
It's at that time that I took the rest of the film with a grain of salt… and I'm glad I did because it just kept getting sillier after that. It had a lot of promise, too — but, having really dumb characters kind of kills a movie for me. I get that there are people out in the World that are not that bright… but having all of them in one movie together doesn't make any sense. Add to that some acting you would get from a local theater group and an unsatisfying ending…. and you wind up with: Final Grade: D More reviews at http://www.soveryterry.com
Another review on here writes "Mayra Leal shows some T&A but one would do MUCH better merely watching Machete instead" HA! Her scene in Machete lured me into renting this wacky illogical soft core slasher movie. Unfortunately, Ms. Leal's acting talents and voluptuous quotient were quite deceptive in Machete–more does not always mean better; in Machete we only get a one minute glimpse of the Latin cutie before her quick demise. In House, each minute she is on screen further shortens her future chances in legitimate cinema. If you are watching this on DVD, the previews from this same production company give you a warning what you are in store for.