House of Bodies builds itself on a interesting premise, but lacks on execution, revision, and ending. It delivers a bad experience that could have been better because the premise was promising.
The premise is interesting enough to hook you. Recent murders by a copycat of Henry Lee Bishop, a convicted serial killer, seem to close to the source material to be true. This similarity leads detectives Starks and Ramos to confront Henry Lee Bishop.
After this hook, the movie goes downhill.
Let's start with the plot holes, because there are plenty.
So, for whatever unexplained reason, one Tracy runs this business where she hires women to this Big Brother house where they get naked for subscribers and might make some tips. Cam girls, per say. The movie does not explain why Tracy runs this shady business.
Early in the movie, we see that a murdered is at the house and Tracy knows him enough. We also don't get why. By the way, kudos to George Katt's acting throughout the movie.
Then we close in on Kelli, seemingly our protagonist of this beat. She joined the business because she needs money to pay for her college, a fact we get from a lousy call from her mom where the voice interpreter was clearly reading the script emotionless. She is shy and regrets her decision, but, literally seconds later, she gets this private message from Kyle and, out of the blue, she is kinky and in love with Kyle, and vice-versa, which is just unnatural - a plot device to move the story forward.
This Kyle guy is a pro on programming, as we can see from the innumerous Yahoo HTML popping up on the screen - I'm a programmer, so that caught my eye fast. He is so good that he is able to hack into the house's system to restore the power. How? Well, you better just believe the story.
The biggest plot holes for me are the following ones.
Tisha tells Kelli that she is replacing a former girl that died. How? Why? Well, either I got brain damage while watching the movie or the movie didn't explaine why, dismissed the plotline altogether.
The second plotline is pointless. The exchange between detective Starks and Henry Lee Bishop renders itself useless when we see that Starks knows everything, he is just spitting that onto Bishop for whatever. Shame, though, because that's where all the budget went.
House of Bodies could have been a better movie if they had edited the script one more time. Had they filled out the plot holes and improved the ending, we'd get a better story. The way it ended, House of Bodies is a terrible experience.
The pros...
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The could be better
The cons...
The premise is interesting enough to hook you. Recent murders by a copycat of Henry Lee Bishop, a convicted serial killer, seem to close to the source material to be true. This similarity leads detectives Starks and Ramos to confront Henry Lee Bishop.
After this hook, the movie goes downhill.
Let's start with the plot holes, because there are plenty.
So, for whatever unexplained reason, one Tracy runs this business where she hires women to this Big Brother house where they get naked for subscribers and might make some tips. Cam girls, per say. The movie does not explain why Tracy runs this shady business.
Early in the movie, we see that a murdered is at the house and Tracy knows him enough. We also don't get why. By the way, kudos to George Katt's acting throughout the movie.
Then we close in on Kelli, seemingly our protagonist of this beat. She joined the business because she needs money to pay for her college, a fact we get from a lousy call from her mom where the voice interpreter was clearly reading the script emotionless. She is shy and regrets her decision, but, literally seconds later, she gets this private message from Kyle and, out of the blue, she is kinky and in love with Kyle, and vice-versa, which is just unnatural - a plot device to move the story forward.
This Kyle guy is a pro on programming, as we can see from the innumerous Yahoo HTML popping up on the screen - I'm a programmer, so that caught my eye fast. He is so good that he is able to hack into the house's system to restore the power. How? Well, you better just believe the story.
The biggest plot holes for me are the following ones.
Tisha tells Kelli that she is replacing a former girl that died. How? Why? Well, either I got brain damage while watching the movie or the movie didn't explaine why, dismissed the plotline altogether.
The second plotline is pointless. The exchange between detective Starks and Henry Lee Bishop renders itself useless when we see that Starks knows everything, he is just spitting that onto Bishop for whatever. Shame, though, because that's where all the budget went.
House of Bodies could have been a better movie if they had edited the script one more time. Had they filled out the plot holes and improved the ending, we'd get a better story. The way it ended, House of Bodies is a terrible experience.
The pros...
- An interesting premise that might hook you for the wrong reasons.
- George Katt's acting. Enough said.
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The could be better
- Chemistry between Henry Lee Bishop and Starks.
- Reason why Starks met with Henry Lee, which looks dumb when you know why.
The cons...