Beneath the fake blood and cheap masks of countless haunted house attractions across the country, there are whispers of truly terrifying alternatives. Looking to find an authentic, blood-curdling good fright for Halloween, five friends set off on a road trip in an RV to track down these underground Haunts. Just when their search seems to reach a dead end, strange and disturbing things start happening and it becomes clear that the Haunt has come to them...
14 October 1983, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA
15 December 1978, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
June 19, 1989 in London, England, UK
31 July 1965, London, England, UK
June 21, 1981 in Dallas, Texas, USA
October 21, 2014
Tis the season, kids, and this is a great Halloween-time tale of absolute terror. Revel in it!
October 09, 2014
If you're relatively easily scared or are in a theater full of people who are, the film might be good for a few screams. But only if you're the patient sort.
October 07, 2014
The scary Halloween house at your local amusement park is child's play compared to the "extreme haunts" that fill this uneven but intriguing found-footage horror flick.
October 10, 2014
Never transcends a predictable narrative trajectory to deliver much in the way of creepy atmosphere, let alone actual scares.
October 19, 2015
What sets this film appart from other found footage movies is the fact that it tries to be a documentary at times, adding more credibility to what we see on screen. [Full review in Spanish]
October 09, 2014
IF the filmmakers had made a documentary about haunted houses, I might have liked "The Houses October Built." Instead, they opted for a knockoff of "The Blair Witch Project." What a mistake.
October 09, 2014
While there's much to admire, the film also falls victim to the pitfalls that plague many found footage movies.
October 10, 2014
An incredibly sloppy found-footage flick that's awful enough to give Halloween a bad name.
October 13, 2014
Despite sitting through an endless parade of found footage stinkers, every so often there's a movie like The Houses October Built that proves that the subgenre is far from dead.
October 07, 2014
...it really does expose how class-based so many of our horror tropes are.
October 10, 2014
The Houses October Built" proves one of the more successful attempts at the found-footage horror flick since Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones.
January 05, 2015
This is a somewhat tiresome found-footage excursion admirable in how it came together, and disappointing that it couldn't have added up to more than it ultimately does.
