By BROOKE MCCELLAND
TV Reviewer
The Open House is one of Netflix’s newest original movies and while most of the time the network is about to provide remarkable and potentially innovative spectacles.
It also runs the risk of running uninspiring and sometimes pathetic programs. Unfortunately, The Open House is one of the anomalies for Netflix’s original programming.
It’s flat, uninspiring, and at times very boring. It’s not worth the watch, even with Dylan Minnette and his fellow actors doing their best to salvage a decent performance despite the bad script. So many plot holes, so many missed opportunities that could have been achieved with a better script, and a waste of all of these actor’s talents. The only reason one might watch this movie is for the previously mentioned Dylan Minnette. He does his best with what he’s given, but it’s nothing compared to his previous works, with his performance in “Don’t Breathe” being one in particular. There’s so much more that goes into movies in general and this was a very lazy and embarrassing attempt at a horror movie. This had the potential to be a good movie but through lack of imagination and lazy attitudes, all the viewers were left with was this piece of junk. It goes to show that you can’t take just any concept and turn it into a horror movie just because it might have creepy potential. The horror genre needs to step up it’s A-Game, if only to avoid more movie catastrophes such as The Open House.