House of Darkness (2022)
Directed by Neil LaBute
Driving home to her secluded estate after meeting at a local bar, a player out to score thinks his beautiful, mysterious date will be another casual hook-up. While getting acquainted, their flirtation turns playful, sexy and sinister. Hoping to get lucky, his luck may have just run out.
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LaBute has commented that the inspiration for “House of Darkness” was the “three weird sisters” episode of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” played like a fable (it begins with the caption “Once Upon a Time” and ends with another, more ironic, reading “And They All Lived Happily Ever After”), and Hap Jackson can be seen as a horny modern version of Jonathan Harker, looking to cash in on what he sees as a chance for some steamy pleasure with a voluptuous woman and finding their roles switched when she’s suddenly tripled.
Hap, however, doesn’t seem to be familiar with Bram Stoker’s Dracula , so he doesn’t realize what fate awaits him at the end of the movie.
The setup is a not-so-subtle reworking of the three sisters sequence from Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Spooky-house movies have been a go-to genre for scrappy low-budget filmmakers at least since James Whale's 1932 "The Old Dark House" (one of the four horror pictures Whale made at Universal: he also directed the first two "Frankenstein" films and "The Invisible Man" — itself recently overhauled as a really scary horror-house movie by Leigh Whannell).