The House Review: 4 Ups & 5 Downs

2. It Makes Good Use Of Its R-Rating

The House mercifully has an R-rating, and for the most part the movie actually makes pretty good use of it, not merely earning it for swearing and generally vulgar dialogue, but also some brief nudity and, most surprisingly of all, a decent serving of brutal violence.

Indeed, there are several sequences in the movie involving severed appendages and graphic spurts of blood, which add some fun gross-out appeal to the movie just when it threatens to completely run out of steam.

Some will probably find these moments a little too much tonally, especially considering the movie's more realistic tenor up to this point, but the gory squibs and the actors' hysterical reactions to them are undeniably entertaining.