The immediacy of a one-take film feels both thrilling and oppressive. Thomas Sieben’s Home Sweet Home: Where Evil Lives leans into this tension precisely, creating a horror experience that feels as claustrophobic as it does expansive. The film, released in late September, asserts its place in the genre not just as a haunted house story but also as a meditation on the echoes of historical horrors and the fragility of the human psyche. It’s a risky mix: a slow-burning psychological horror laced with occult themes, all unfolding in real-time via the ambitious lens of a single uninterrupted take—or, at least, the persuasive illusion of one.
The premise appears deceptively simple. Maria, played with raw and grounded passion by Nilam Farooq, arrives at her fiancé Viktor’s family home thirty-seven weeks pregnant and stressed by the impending makeover of the dilapidated rural house into a bed and breakfast.
The premise appears deceptively simple. Maria, played with raw and grounded passion by Nilam Farooq, arrives at her fiancé Viktor’s family home thirty-seven weeks pregnant and stressed by the impending makeover of the dilapidated rural house into a bed and breakfast.
- 12/4/2024
- by Shahrbanoo Golmohamadi
- Gazettely
International sales agency the Playmaker has signed a deal with Blue Finch Film Releasing to distribute the one-shot horror film “Home Sweet Home — Where Evil Lives” in the U.K. and Ireland.
Thomas Sieben’s film, which made its world premiere in August at FrightFest in London, has its market premiere at AFM. The film, which is produced by “Resident Evil””” studio Constantin Film, will also screen at Imagine Fantastic Film Festival in Amsterdam and Splat! FilmFest in Warsaw.
In the film, Maria, a newlywed and pregnant, must uncover the dark secrets of her husband’s family, and escape their cursed house before the sinister forces consume her and her unborn child.
Maria is played by Nilam Farooq, her father-in-law is played by Justus von Dohnányi and her husband Viktor is played by David Kross.
“’Home Sweet Home’ is an accomplished feat of genre filmmaking, which does something fresh with familiar tropes.
Thomas Sieben’s film, which made its world premiere in August at FrightFest in London, has its market premiere at AFM. The film, which is produced by “Resident Evil””” studio Constantin Film, will also screen at Imagine Fantastic Film Festival in Amsterdam and Splat! FilmFest in Warsaw.
In the film, Maria, a newlywed and pregnant, must uncover the dark secrets of her husband’s family, and escape their cursed house before the sinister forces consume her and her unborn child.
Maria is played by Nilam Farooq, her father-in-law is played by Justus von Dohnányi and her husband Viktor is played by David Kross.
“’Home Sweet Home’ is an accomplished feat of genre filmmaking, which does something fresh with familiar tropes.
- 10/31/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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