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Halloweenies: A Horror Franchise Podcast

The House of the Devil (2009)

Halloweenies: A Horror Franchise Podcast

The Losers' Club LLC

Horror Movies, Film Reviews, Horror Franchises, Film Interviews, Halloween, Tv & Film, Film History, Horror Movie Franchises

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 155 minutes

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Summary

Grab that crucifix because 202666 keeps on burnin' as the Halloweenies discuss Ti West's 2009 breakthrough film The House of the Devil. Together, they discuss how West's vintage experiment checked all the right boxes, the new era of Horror this ushered in, why all the imitators pale in comparison, and the glory that is Tom Noonan. This episode was previously recorded in June 2024 for The Rewind: patreon.com/halloweeniespod.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Greetings and salutations. You've successfully arrived at the bloody disgusting network.

0:10.6

The passage of time will now bring you to something strange, unique, and idiosyncratic.

0:17.8

Have a good time.

0:22.3

Greetings, Halloweenes, and welcome back to another episode of, well, you guessed it, Halloween's.

0:28.9

This is your host, Michael Myers-Roffman.

0:31.8

And today I'm introing an episode that we are unlocking this month to keep things themed on the devils. Devils, hells,

0:41.1

and all those demons that go bump in the night, many miles below us. I think that makes any sense.

0:49.4

Yes, it's 20266666. I think I did too many sixes there, but we're going to go with it. And we are

0:56.4

unlocking the House of the Devil, Ty West, 2009 classic, one of our favorite films of the

1:02.8

21st century, if you recall from our list in December. And this episode we recorded in

1:08.0

2024 in anticipation of Maxine. I don't know how you feel about Maxine,

1:13.2

but I do love that trilogy in the sense that it exists. I think Pearl is the best of the three

1:19.0

of them. But, you know, I think there was a lot of disgust and hubbub about Ty West being able to

1:25.3

nail the precision of a vintage picture without it looking like

1:30.0

the 80s slop that you often see when a film is just lazily titled, you know, something

1:36.8

vintage, and then you have a vintage poster, and then you watch the movie, and it looks like someone

1:40.6

just shot it on digital and put the, you know, a synth score on and

1:45.0

and maybe a veteran 80s actor in there to kind of be cheeky about it.

1:49.4

But it doesn't really feel like it's from that era.

1:52.8

And I would argue that the house the devil, if you had no idea who Tom Noonan was, and, you know, you've never seen heat.

1:59.9

You've never seen Manhunter. Honestly, it could honestly just be Tom Noonan from that And, you know, you've never seen Heat. You've never seen Manhunter.

2:17.3

Honestly, it could honestly just be Tom Noonan from that era since the guy never ages. So let's just say you didn't know where it was from. I think you'd be fooled. I think you'd honestly be fooled and think that this is a film that was lost in the 80s. kind of like how I felt when I first saw the strokes on MTV and thought, hey, is this a band that just,

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