Once upon a time, there were two little girls who lived in a house
| 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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| 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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Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
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| Frightening / Tense Scenes |
Jump Scenes |
Tense Family Scenes |
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| 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 dié 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 | |