A Art Tv Review

House of Darkness opens with Hap (Justin Long) and Mina in a car pulling up to a gothic mansion near the woods. It turns out that Hap and Mina had a chance meeting in a bar in the city and the former leaves the latter at home out of the kindness of her heart. No, not really. Hap expects something in return, a casual connection, if you will, but you dress his words in ways that betray his true intentions. From the start, there is something off about Mina, and the audience picks it up through layered dialogue and visual cues. To begin with, Mina says that she is a creature of the night, and that silence and solitude comfort her, and that hearing/seeing things is part of her everyday existence. At various points in the film, Hap hears strange sounds and shapes both inside and outside the mansion, but rejects the idea due to his over-enthusiasm about sleeping with Mina. There's a huge lack of gender awareness for Hap until the very last minute: he doesn't know what kind of story he...