Home Movie(2008)
2008 · Christopher Denham · 77 min
Reverend David Poe and his psychiatrist wife trade hectic New York life for an idyllic rural farmhouse; the perfect place for 10 year old twins Jack & Emily to run, play and imagine. Documenting this lifestyle change, David decides to film every holiday and special family event. To the Poe's horror their home movies reveal an increasing malice and evil within their children.
Drama · Horror · Thriller
5.0112 votes
TMDB score
3/5
Intensity
1/5
Gore
4/5
Stays with you
How Home Movie scares
It starts almost like a home video diary, warm and mundane, and only slowly do the recorded moments start feeling wrong. The dread builds in tiny increments across weeks of footage rather than through any single scary scene, so the fear creeps up on you instead of jumping out. There's barely any blood or violence shown, but the sense of something deeply off in a normal family setting gets under your skin and stays there. It's a quiet, unsettling watch best suited for people who like slow dread over shocks.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Home Movie rates psychological 4/5, visceral 2/5, gore 1/5, lingering effect 4/5, and overall intensity 3/5.
- Psychological: 4 of 5
- Visceral: 2 of 5
- Gore: 1 of 5
- Lingering: 4 of 5
- Intensity: 3 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 10 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 50 of 100 — balanced
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 75 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
A slow, low-key home-video buildup that quietly darkens before a sharp, disturbing final stretch.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5.
How scary is Home Movie?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, Home Movie rates 3/5 — solidly scary, building its fear through slow-burn dread rather than shocks. The fear is mostly in your head — it unsettles far more than it assaults. Expect it to be restrained with gore and genuinely disturbing. Expect it to stay with you for days.
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