Dream House

Once upon a time, there were two little girls who lived in a house

A supernatural thriller which borrows bits and ideas from several other movies, and which the studios expected to bomb. The plotline focuses on a family who move into a new house, where gradually the father learns that several years ago, it was the scene of a family murder. The evidence begins to point to him as the killer, so he investigates further, and then things get complicated ... what is real and what is not? Is the pretty woman across the street as innocent as she looks? What exactly happened in that house five years ago?

91 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Violence).
Detective/Mystery, Drama, Thriller.

Showtimes

That should warm them up...

Credits

Cast	Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts, Rachel Weisz, Elias Koteas, Marton Csokas, Taylor Geare, Claire Geare, Rachel G. Fox
Director	Jim Sheridan
Screenplay	David Loucka
Music	John Debney
Cinematography	Caleb Deschanel
Editing	Glen Scantlebury, Barbara Tulliver
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS
Soundtrack	Available
SA distributor	Nu Metro
Made in	2011
Produced by	Cliffjack Motion Pictures, Morgan Creek Productions

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Thriller
Language	Occasional, moderate
Nudity	None
Sex	Infrequent, mild to moderate
Violence	Frequent, moderate and strong, realistic
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
Comments	Disturbing: small children and lovely mother killed in a family murder. Plenty of menace and threat.
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ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith Dream cast, plot a house of cards	5
Die Burger Amanda de Lange Spoke in di� droomhuis	10
Cape Times David Rooney Thrill-deprived genre mishmash a convoluted yawn	5
Box Office Sara Maria Vizcarrondo The real mystery here is how this mess of a movie got such a stellar cast.	3
ScreenIt T. Durgin This is one House that should be pulled from the market as soon as possible.	7
Metacritic.com 16 critics	7
Rottentomatoes critics 63 critics	7
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Dream House is punishingly slow, stuffy, and way too obvious to be scary.	2
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	8
What the People say
Internet 2957 Netizens A pathetic psychological thriller	11
Average .. 33%	7