home sweet hell
“home sweet hell” is now available on vod and opens in cinemas on march 13th .
zak, nick and aaron profile the most haunted homes and mansions they have ever visited. overflowing with paranormal activity, they show how home sweet home can become home sweet hell .
in home sweet hell, don champagne is a furniture salesman who finds himself in a tough spot .
home sweet hell musters too little wit and too few laughs to sustain this humorous autopsy of suburban life .
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home sweet hell tells the tale of businessman don champagne (wilson) who appears to have the perfect life with a successful career and happy home .
home sweet hell doesn' t deserve a hearty recommendation, but watching heigl almost makes the movie worth watching on her own .
in the end, home sweet hell is neither an adequate black comedy nor a good slasher film. it' s just hellish. there' s nothing sweet about it .
if katherine heigl thought the unappetizing dark comedy
home sweet hell
might somehow help her flagging film career, she was greatly mistaken .
“home sweet hell” is rated r (under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). sex, violence, dismemberment, crystal meth .
home sweet hell is rated r for violence, language, sexual content and some drug use. the running time is 1 hour and 38 minutes .
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[ home sweet hell is ] nothing more or less than a toothless satire of suburban conformity that might have felt a little more dangerous six decades ago .
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switching things up for her new film role, the 35 - year - old takes on the role of a murderous housewife in the twisted comedy home sweet hell .
the real drama comes not from dusty’s con but from mona’s reaction to the situation. in this, “home sweet hell” deserves a shred of credit for its escalating nastiness .
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home sweet hell
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a movie review of “home sweet hell”: this problematic but fitfully funny thriller - comedy stars katherine heigl as a suburban wife who descends into madness and violence. rating: 2. 5 stars out of 4 .
families can talk about the way women are portrayed in home sweet hell. are the characters of mona and dusty well developed? is there an obligation to have realistic characters in a movie that' s purposely exaggerated ?
the conception of mona in director anthony burns’ film and heigl’s smart performance are the best things going in “home sweet hell. ” wilson has good moments, too, but there’s a laziness about some of the narrative and other characters .
‘ home sweet hell, ’ with katherine heigl, patrick wilson, jim belushi, jordana brewster. directed by anthony burns, from a screenplay by carlo allen, ted elrick and tom lavagnino. 97 minutes. rated r for violence, nudity, drug use. alderwood mall 16 .
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despite a fervent belief in humanity’s infinite creativity, i’m doubtful that an inoffensive, or even just a fair - minded, comedy can be made based on the fantasy of harming one’s wife. and if it can in fact be done, “home sweet hell” sure as heck isn’t doing it .
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starring katherine heigl and patrick wilson (the latter, coincidentally enough, also headlines the similarly repellent “let’s kill ward’s wife”), “home sweet hell” is the cinematic equivalent of the guy who’s so busy ranting and raving about how untrustworthy women are that he hasn’t noticed everyone’s backed away from him in fear .
katherine heigl as a hen - pecking, murderous, psychopath? yeah, somehow, i can believe it. the actress takes a left turn from her usually much sunnier characters for the upcoming dark comedy “ home sweet hell ” (ha ha), and a new trailer has dropped for the flick .
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scene magazine july / august 2013 in this lengthy interview, kevin mckidd talks about filming
home sweet hell
( titled
north of hell
during filming) ,
rome
,
grey' s anatomy
, directing, his music album
the speyside sessions
, and his charity work with save the children. ~ a great read! ~ update - see the winners list & claim your prize if you won !
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those goals are threatened when don begins an affair with a new saleswoman, dusty (jordana brewster). their relationship grows so steamy so soon after her hiring that all but the most dense of observers — these include don — will suspect that dusty has ulterior motives. “home sweet hell” clumsily tips its hand anyway, cutting to dusty’s accomplices .
golden and gleaming in the problematic but fitfully funny thriller - comedy “home sweet hell, ” heigl plays mona, a suburban goddess without a hair out of place. alluring in a nightie to her sexually starved husband, don (patrick wilson), mona keeps her — and his — libido in check until her appointment calendar says it’s time for a prescheduled tryst .
the indie dark comedy home sweet hell is a rather lackluster film that doesn' t deliver that many laughs. when furniture salesman don champagne has an affair with one of his workers (who' s actually a professional con - artist) she turns around and begins to blackmail him; and when he comes clean with his wife she demands that he kill her to make things right. starring patrick wilson, katherine heigl, and jordana brewster, the casting is rather good; the performances however, are pretty weak. and the tone doesn' t do a good job at mixing the comedy with the violence. additionally, the characters aren' t that sympathetic. poorly made shlock, home sweet hell isn' t very entertaining .
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the fulfillment of wishes — to fall in love, to let justice prevail, to overcome adversity with dignity and strength — is one of the main reasons we as a species tell stories and, more recently, make films. not all wishes are so noble, of course, as is the case with “home sweet hell, ” a rancid comedy fueled by male entitlement and uxoricidal rage .
katherine heigl has exactly one funny moment in the dire black comedy home sweet hell, which is still one more than anybody else has. it occurs about halfway through the film, when her character, a detestable housewife named mona champagne, realizes that her husband, don (patrick wilson), isn’t going to kill somebody, and mona decides to do the job herself. heigl had been playing mona as a grotesque (and misogynistic) caricature of frigid, castrating domesticity—like kathleen turner’s serial mom, only meaner—but she suddenly springs to giddy life at the prospect of bashing in another woman’s face with a hammer, as if experiencing her first moment of genuine happiness. it’s the only time home sweet hell lets heigl appear even vaguely human, and it’s more than this noxious piece of crud deserves .
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but there’s no such thing as a good woman in “home sweet hell, ” even mona’s little daughter is a monster in the making. add director anthony burns’ sleazy camera, which shows us a topless woman drunkenly waving around a samurai sword — an anonymous bimbo we’re invited to laugh at while ogling her tits — and you can’t help feeling bad for the actors who have lent themselves to be the public faces (and breasts) of this heap of acrid misogyny .
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is here for all you quotes spouting fans of the movie starring reese witherspoon, patrick dempsey, and dakota fanning. this script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay and / or viewings of sweet home alabama. i' ll be eternally tweaking it, so if you have any corrections, feel free to
home sweet hell bounces along ineffectually, breezily passing up every opportunity to entertain even on its own formulaic terms. at one point, don is forced to take crystal meth (don’t ask) and — god forbid the filmmakers should stoop to making us laugh — the movie doesn’t even bother to set up a gag; it’s that lazy, or perhaps under the mistaken impression that it’s above throwing the audience a bone. read more katherine heigl :
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if there were a point to this film, it’s completely lost on us. if it’s meant to be a modern parable, then is the takeaway that women should stop being control freaks? or that wives should do whatever they can to keep their husbands sexually satisfied to prevent straying? or is it that a perfect suburban life is an urban legend? both heigl and wilson do what they can in their limited, one - dimensional roles, but try as they might, the leads and supporting cast—including jim belushi as don’s obligatory best friend—can’t bring the audience around to care for these characters. in the end, home sweet hell is neither an adequate black comedy nor a good slasher film. it’s just hellish. there’s nothing sweet about it .
there is great fodder for comedy, satire, and horror, too, in the bright world of suburbia, as well as in the women who submit to its conventionality and its material aspirations with the passion of a thousand suns. what if all the energy put into pinterest - ing your perfect dining room were channeled into a kill spree? it could be funny. anything can be funny. if it' s funny. but
home sweet hell
doesn' t just fail to find the right tone. it doesn' t find a tone at all .
mona (katherine heigl), the chief villain of the shrill comedy “ home sweet hell, ” is the sort of terrifying suburban status seeker who might inspire fond memories of the 1994 john waters film “ serial mom. ” she insists that her children “argue constructively” and requires nothing less than perfect hedges. she indulges in casual bigotry and refuses to mingle with the employees of the furniture company she runs with her husband, don (patrick wilson). she lists 15 precise minutes of sex with him on her calendar. she keeps an album of goals for her perfect family .
if the film is worth even a cursory look, it’s from a sociocultural standpoint. the role of mona was in many ways the inevitable final step in the “shrewification” of katherine heigl; the actress who started off portraying relatable gals looking for love, then went on to prissy prima donnas, neurotic harpies and brazen ball - busters, is now playing full - fledged psycho. home sweet hell finds her onscreen persona finally surpassing her offscreen image in terms of unpleasantness. all that aside, heigl has talent and is certainly not undeserving of career rehab. needless to say, this isn’t it .
both leads here try too hard, contorting their faces and delivering overly emphatic line readings to let us know they’re in on the joke — as if, with material this bludgeoningly arch, that were necessary. jim belushi also shows up, for what it’s worth, as don’s boorish colleague. home sweet hell is aiming — i think — for the zing and chilliness of the coen brothers or the gleeful bad taste of john waters. but for all their snappy cuts and deadpan compositions, burns (whose debut was the dramatically wan, though atmospheric, skateland) and his collaborators never rise above bland competence .
literally, what the hell is this? this feels like a cartoon. the characters are so cartoonish, i mean sheesh. katherine heigl is the only one who had fun in her... continue reading
“less is more” is an often - heard tenet of good storytelling—but one that the filmmakers behind the purported dark comedy home sweet hell ignored. that there are three writing credits (carlo allen, ted elrick and tom lavagnino) attached to a 98 - minute movie is only the first of many red flags in this “satire” (we think) about marriage, murder, mental illness and / or life in suburbia. director anthony burns (skateland) presents an over - the - top, unfunny and ridiculous misogynistic mess of a movie in which the female characters are either beautiful, cold - hearted murderers or beautiful whores .
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mona reacts quite calmly: dusty must be killed and don must be the one to do it. mona makes preparations for the murder with the same cheery specificity she pours into her various decorating schemes. as a matter of fact, mona discovers she' s good at this murder thing! like serial mom before her, mona is set free by killing. naturally, her plans go awry, and then begins the relentless bloodbath that makes up the rest of the film. there are unsavory characters with southern accents and scottish accents, and naked strippers who deserve better in life than to have to disrobe for
home sweet hell ,
and tormented family barbecues that go horribly wrong .
although mona is already unlikeable from the outset, the filmmakers somehow found it necessary to add another vile layer to the character: she’s a bigot to boot. she calls her gay neighbors “ladies” and spouts offhanded and offensive dialogue like “at least she’s not mexican, ” or “daddy says to hire a jew … all they do is make money. ” there’s no need for this extra dimension to the character—we got the message in the first two minutes of the film. burns and the screenwriting team should have channeled their efforts elsewhere, perhaps delving further into mona’s psyche or toward crafting a more interesting or original plot. nothing, and we mean nothing, happens in home sweet hell that the audience can’t predict .
a vacationing woman meets her ideal man, leading to a swift marriage. back at home, however, their idyllic life is upset when they discover their neighbors could be assassins who have been contracted to kill the couple. .
the plot lurches into motion when a young woman named dusty (jordana brewster) sashays into don’s store looking for a job. don hires dusty, and soon the two are “working late” (wink, wink). when dusty claims she’s pregnant with don’s child and demands money, don comes clean to mona, who naturally suggests killing dusty, hacking her body into pieces and hiding her remains in the trailer of some fearsome - looking bumpkins who, in fact, were dusty’s partners in extortion. still following? doesn’t matter, since home sweet hell is the sort of would - be satire that seems to have no idea what it’s satirizing (yuppies? mental illness? the american obsession with perfection and achievement ?), and whose idea of naughtiness is a handful of crushingly unfunny jokes about mexicans, jews and crohn’s disease .
parents need to know that home sweet hell is a dark comedy about a suburban mom who will go to murderously disturbing lengths to maintain her perfect life. bloody violence includes a drugged woman being bludgeoned to death and dismembered with a power saw, as well as a scene in which two people are stabbed to death. perhaps not surprisingly, nobody comes off well here; the women are treated as eye candy and sex objects, and the male characters are either violent, conniving criminals or a weakling who will go along with the most heinous plan to avoid offending his domineering wife. there' s some racist and sexist language, a good amount of sex (including plenty of topless women), and frequent profanity (including
f - - k
and
p - - - y
). one scene shows a man snorting crystal meth .
considering how often katherine heigl has been slammed for not being just another docile, eager - to - please female celebrity, it’s hard not to suspect that she might have relished the chance to play an unapologetically ball - busting shrew — a grotesquely exaggerated version of a stereotype she’s been assigned many times over. indeed, heigl’s performance as a coolly murderous model housewife is the only real reason to even consider watching “home sweet hell, ” an otherwise flailing and risible tale of adultery, extortion and suburban malaise that suggests a poor woman’s “gone girl” — one stripped of all tension, style and subtext, and instead rendered with a level of over - the - top gore that would give even david fincher pause. already out on vod ahead of its march 13 theatrical release, this dismal stab at a darkly comic thriller is hardly the vehicle to resuscitate its lead actress’s bigscreen career, but it’s unlikely to do much for anyone else’s, either .
burns’ direction and shot choices are serviceable, but pedantic; and the film’s pacing is uneven. home sweet hell ’s slow - boiling, secondary extortion plot is so protracted and predictable that instead of adding much - needed spark and action to the story, it only fuels audience ennui. the exposition takes entirely too long, and all the “plot twists” and action sequences are crammed in toward the end. there’s an unnecessary scene of don dabbling with crystal meth—hilarious, right? —and a number of gratuitous shots of topless women either dancing at a strip club or having sex with the various male characters. there are a lot of boobs and bloodletting during the last third of the film, but since no one’s emotionally invested in any of these characters, the sex and violence becomes boring. one moment, however, does pique some interest: don finally grows a pair and asks what happened between mona and her overbearing parents (whom we never see) during her childhood. it’s only a tease though, and that thread is never explored .
9 the divine comedy' s neil hannon speaks from the screenplay of la dolce vita (translated into english) at the end of the song' the certainty of chance'. the words are the intellectual steiner' s:' sometimes at night the darkness and silence weighs on me. peace frightens me. perhaps i fear it most of all. i feel it' s only a facade, hiding the face of hell.'
setting aside the small gestures, the delicate observation of daily life and the sympathetic characterisation associated with neo - realism, la dolce vita is a large - scale satire with grand set pieces and forceful visual metaphors. its target is a godless society that has become a kind of hell (there are pointed references to dante) and it has rightly been compared with ts eliot' s depiction of a moribund post - first world war europe in the waste land. cafe society figures are the new gods of this celebrity culture, and to expand the metaphor beyond r ome the film features actors from france, america, sweden and england as well as italy. marcello is torn between the sweet life (mostly a world of night - time frolics and daytime hangovers) of which he is participant and observer, and the detached milieu of his mentor, the desiccated intellectual steiner, who rails against modern corruption, but has little to offer in the way of constructive hope .
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the film is in post - production now. the first cut is one, and it’s being fine tuned. smith let us know that the trailer is almost done as well, so our first look at this film should be coming soon! the film should be ready to go by october 2016, and then it will be up to the distribution company to decide whether it will be released in october or later in the year. but, as finkelstein so beautifully sums up, “either way, it’s going to be one hell of a release! ”
new york fashion designer melanie carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city' s most eligible bachelor. but melanie' s past holds many secrets, including jake, the redneck husband she married in high school, who refuses to divorce her. bound and determined to end their contentious relationship once and for all, melanie sneaks back home to alabama to confront her past, only to discover that you can take the girl out of the south, but you can never take the south out of the girl .
patrick wilson plays mona’s better, or at least other, half. don’s a milquetoast husband who goes along with the charade. from the outside looking in, don has it all: a pretty wife, two kids in private school, a tidy and comfortable home and a successful furniture business, all thanks to his wife’s parents. don’s kept on a tight leash, and mona organizes his entire life. every aspect of it. when he gets a little frisky at bedtime, she rebuffs him with, “we will have sex on the 9th as scheduled. ”
2 women in love (ken russell, 1969) fellini once proudly claimed that in his home country' they call me the italian ken russell!' certainly these two untameable mavericks share a common sensibility, the edgy european vibrancy, anarchic musicality, and recurrent blend of the sacred and the profane marking them out as rebellious auteurs. women in love is russell' s most celebrated work, and (like all his movies) owes a debt to the italian maestro' s enduring legacy.' we are not afraid to be operatic,' says russell of the connection between himself and fellini.' in terms of cinema, we cherish that quality - which is often considered to be a dirty word here in england.'
don (patrick wilson) and mona (katherine heigl) seem to have the perfect life, perfect home, and perfect relationship. at least it looks that way from the outside, but that' s mainly because mona is obsessed with creating that image and is ruthless about attaining it (she even has a scrapbook called
our goals
in which she has her long - term vision planned out). her plan is threatened when don is seduced by a new employee, dusty (jordana brewster), and she announces that she' s pregnant and is determined to keep the child. for mona, there' s only one way to resolve this complication: she has to make the problem go away, even if it means resorting to murder .
fellini had won two oscars for best foreign language film in the 1950s (for la strada and nights of cabiria) and was to win a further two (for 8½ and amarcord), but la dolce vita introduced him to a popular audience far beyond the art house circuit. it also introduced three terms into the english language. the first is' felliniesque' as an adjective to describe something quirkily outlandish or bizarre in the style of the director. the second is' paparazzi', the pejorative term for brazen celebrity - stalking photographers, named after the journalist hero' s camera - toting sidekick paparazzo, which in turn was borrowed from a hotelier in george gissing' s 1901 travel book, by the ionian sea. the third, of course, is the title, la dolce vita, used ironically thereafter to describe a shallow materialistic lifestyle, though fellini claimed he' d used it without irony to mean' the sweetness of life' rather than' the sweet life' .
played by patrick wilson (the conjuring, insidious), don finds himself forced into the role of a pawn for the revenge fantasies of his borderline - personality / stepford wife mona (katherine heigl) after she uncovers he has been having an affair. also starring in the red - band trailer — seen here first on yahoo movies — is fast & furious star jordana brewster, who plays don' s mistress .
keep an eye out for a heigl’s former grey’s anatomy co - star, kevin mckidd, appearing as a fairly convincing meth head. (lest we forget, he played a junkie in trainspotting. )
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don champagne seems to have it all, but when his wife, mona, learns of his affair with a pretty new salesgirl, she will stop at nothing to maintain their storybook life .
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don champagne seems to have it all: a successful business, a perfect house, perfect kids and a perfect wife. unfortunately, when his wife, mona (katherine heigl), learns of don' s affair with a pretty new salesgirl (jordana brewster), this suburban slice of heaven spirals out of control. don soon realizes that mona will stop at nothing, including murder, to maintain their storybook life where
perception is everything
.
when mona tells don to hit dusty with a hammer, the orientation of the hammer head is not consistent in all shots. don starts with the hammer head facing the suv but in a couple of scene changes, it is reversed .
if you like dark comedies like tucker and dale or very bad things you will like this .
perception is everything .
don champagne (wilson) has the perfect life, at least it looks that way to everyone else. he runs a car dealership with his friend and is married to mona (heigle). she wants everything in her life to be perfect and will stop at nothing to make sure it is. perfection begins to waver when don hires a new saleswoman. this is a funny but very dark comedy. i enjoyed it but this is not a movie for everyone. from everything i have heard about katherine heigle in the news this seems like the perfect part for her. there really isn' t a whole lot to say about this movie other than that. if you like dark comedies like tucker and dale or very bad things you will like this. the movie isn' t all that original and the cast really makes it better than it is. overall, if you are a fan of dark comedies this is worth seeing. if you offend easy i would avoid this. i give it a b .
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mistakes misogyny for subversive wit, aiming for black comedy but ending up with a grueling test of viewer endurance that wastes game efforts from its likable leads .
mona and don' s seemingly perfect suburban bliss is disrupted by a sexy extortionist and mona will stop at nothing, including killing the competition, to keep her little slice of heaven. (c) vertical entertainment
while the oafish men come off poorly, the treatment of women as nothing more than schemers and monstrous martha stewart clones seems woefully past its expiration date .
it' s high time katherine heigl sent up her image as a controlling bitch in heels; too bad her dark comic turn takes place in an otherwise dreadful, misogynistic slog of a film .
wilson is an engaging actor, but he' s stuck treading water in a movie with little action. heigl, on the other hand, seems bored and aloof. she' s playing against type, but she' s stiff and doesn' t make a fun villain here .
absolute mess of a movie. and this from someone who actually quite likes katherine heigl. thank goodness i didn' t buy this one before watching, as i was tempted to. a too perfect wife discovers her husband has had a fling with an employee, who has now announced she is pregnant and is demanding money from him. rather than leave him, she decides to fix the problem herself. katherine looks awful in this - actually hard to look at, and her character is a psycho bitch too, but not in a good way. (i am not saying she is unattractive, but the hair, makeup and wardrobe is very harsh on her and not flattering). though the story itself had potential, and normally i enjoy this type of psycho / black comedy film, it is not well done and so leaps from one ridiculous situation to the next, none of it remotely interesting. the acting is pretty poor all around. just does not work at all on any level .
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mona champagne (katherine heigl) scrapbooks obsessively, imagining herself into a perfect life with the perfect house and yard and family. she dresses like a perky stepford wife, and seethes with hostility beneath her gleaming polished surface. her two children are scared of her. her husband, furniture salesman don (patrick wilson), is henpecked, terrified, and horny, because mona schedules sex with him once a month and only leaves 15 minutes in the calendar for it. mona is shown scrubbing the sink with a toothbrush and yawning when don tries to make a pass. she treats him with open contempt and yet he continues to insist he loves her, although why is anyone' s guess. it' s more like he' s trapped in a cult .
don starts up an incredibly indiscreet affair with a sexy sales associate named dusty (jordana brewster), who slinks and slithers her way through the furniture store, leaving don and his partner, played by jim belushi, drooling in her wake. they hire her because neither of them are getting laid (belushi' s wife is the one with crohn' s), and they want something pretty to look at during the work - day. but don is an idiot, and he sleeps with dusty feverishly, all over the furniture store. when dusty turns up pregnant, she starts to blackmail him for money. a desperate man, don comes clean to mona .
katherine heigl commits to this bad material. she means every word she says. she stalks around wearing bright rubber gloves, smiling brightly, trying to clean up various bloody messes, all while bitching at don about how incompetent he is. heigl has had her troubles with her public image, and mona will not help with that, but the actress is actually doing some funny and scary stuff. the woman is a total psychopath, and heigl commits to that. patrick wilson mainly seems uncomfortable, a deer in the headlights, and jim belushi dispenses terrible advice from the sidelines. he' s a boor and a bore .
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katherine heigl is the only reason to even consider watching this dismal stab at a darkly comic thriller .
katherine heigl, patrick wilson, jordana brewster, kevin mckidd, aj buckley, chi mcbride, jim belushi, madison wolfe, aiden flowers .
heigl plays mona champagne, a domestic terrorist with such a psychotic perfectionist streak that she can tell when her furniture - salesman husband, don (patrick wilson), has placed the wrong knives in the chopping block — a sly bit of foreshadowing in a script (credited to a trio of writers) that otherwise favors crude, witless overstatement at every turn. indeed, one of the more appreciable aspects of heigl’s performance is that she manages to bring even a modicum of breathy, fine - grained nuance to the part of this castrating harpy. when she’s not rearing their young children (madison wolfe, aiden flowers) to follow in her calculating, well - mannered footsteps, mona takes every opportunity to remind don about his shortcomings as a provider, as well as his duty to ensure that they meet their goals as a family — every one of which she’s written down in a neatly arranged scrapbook .
since mona is willing to have sex only on rare, carefully scheduled occasions, a frustrated don soon begins a torrid affair with dusty (jordana brewster), the very attractive young woman that he and his sad - sack associate (jim belushi) have recently hired at their furniture store. it’s not long before she tells don she’s pregnant with his child, and only the dimmest bulbs in the audience will be surprised to learn that dusty, in cahoots with her thuggish b. f. (aj buckley), was planning to blackmail the naive, helpless family man all along. what the schemers fail to take into account is the fact that don is far more scared of his wife than of any external threat, and rightly so: not long after he throws himself on mona’s mercy and confesses his infidelity, she determines that their only possible course of action is to eliminate dusty permanently .
by dint of its subject matter if not its execution or tone, the movie can’t help but recall the much more serious - minded takedowns of suburban emptiness that proliferated more than a decade ago, like “happiness” and “american beauty” (to say nothing of primetime soaps of the “desperate housewives” variety). the casting of wilson alone will remind some of “little children, ” though his wildly undisciplined performance here will only suffer from the comparison — all nervous tics, grimaces and overblown panic, exacerbated by one scene in which don is coerced into snorting coke by buckley’s heavily tattooed pimp. it’s no surprise that wilson, with his bland good looks and nice - guy demeanor, keeps getting cast as weak - willed husbands (most recently in the sex - scandal drama “zipper”), but this is one example that he might have done well to turn down .
the writing here simply isn’t adept or layered enough to convey the wannabe - subversive notion that husband and wife are never closer than when they’re forced to operate as a single, homicidal unit; nor does it succeed in plumbing the emotional and psychological depths of mona’s particular pathology, despite one late scene that half - heartedly attempts to do so. all of which makes it more impressive that heigl’s performance, though far from revelatory, manages to compel the viewer’s interest — perhaps because, like mona herself, it evinces a quality that is in dispiritingly short supply throughout the rest of the movie: a sense of control .
reviewed online, pasadena, calif. , march 8, 2015. mpaa rating: r. running time: 98 min .
production: a vertical entertainment release of a stage 6 films presentation of a darko entertainment, donnybrook 4 production. produced by sean mckittrick, jeff culotta, aj buckley, anthony burns. executive producers, edward h. hamm jr. , david pomier, andre champagne, phillip b. goldfine. co - producer, james t. bruce iv .
crew: directed by anthony burns. screenplay, carlo allen, ted elrick, tom lavagnino. camera (color, panavision widescreen), david hemmings; editor, robert hoffman; music, josh kelley; music supervisor, chris mollere; production designer, leonard spears; art director, daniel t. fox; set decorator, paul blanchard; costume designer, shauna leone; sound (dolby digital), michael b. koff; supervising sound editors, robert c. jackson, ryan collins; re - recording mixers, chris david, gabriel j. serrano; special effects coordinator, katie riggs; visual effects supervisors, david burton, olcun tan, thomas tannenberger; visual effects producer, pam hammarlund; visual effects, pixomondo baton rouge, gradient effects; stunt coordinator, stanton barrett; associate producer, mark zalewski; assistant director, james allen hensz; casting, jennifer cooper .
with: katherine heigl, patrick wilson, jordana brewster, kevin mckidd, aj buckley, chi mcbride, jim belushi, madison wolfe, aiden flowers .
considering how often katherine heigl has been slammed for not being just another docile, eager - to - please female celebrity, it’s hard not to suspect that she might have relished the chance to play an unapologetically ball - busting shrew — a grotesquely exaggerated version of a stereotype she’s been assigned many times over. indeed, heigl’s performance as a coolly murderous model housewife is the only real [ … ]
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a woman is so determined to attain and maintain the perfect life that she' s willing to commit murder. her utter lack of a moral compass is disturbing, and her husband is so afraid of crossing her that he goes along with the scheme .
one woman is a blackmailer, and another is so obsessed with maintaining her perfect life that she' s willing to kill anyone who threatens it. women are also treated as sex objects, while the men range from a milquetoast husband who has an affair to a trio of meth dealers (and users) who plot to extort money from the philandering spouse. ocd sufferers are stereotyped .
very bloody / violent. a woman is drugged, bludgeoned to death, and dismembered with a power saw. viewers don' t see the blows land, but the sprays and spurts of blood tell the whole story. another scene includes two people getting stabbed to death; one is impaled with a sword. a suburban mom is exceptionally unremorseful after murdering several people .
a store manager has an affair with an employee; in an extended montage, they have sex all over the office, in all kinds of ways (plenty of thrusting and grunting, but very few body parts visible). another scene is set in a strip club, with many topless women in the background; a mostly undressed stripper who finds herself at the wrong place at the wrong time is stabbed to death. a married couple discusses their sex life, with some suggestive dialogue .
frequent use of
f - - k
and a few discussions about women' s
titties .
also
p - - - y ,
bitch ,
and
s - - t .
one character makes several disparaging comments about jews and mexicans .
one of the main characters is obsessed with obtaining just the right material objects .
characters drink beer at parties and meals and sometimes at work to celebrate a big sale. several people smoke cigarettes, and one scene shows a suburban dad who' s coerced into snorting crystal meth. characters are drug users / dealers.
home sweet hell , previously known as north of hell , is a 2015 american dark comedy horror directed by anthony burns and written by carlo allen , ted elrick , and tom lavagnino . the film stars patrick wilson , katherine heigl , jordana brewster , kevin mckidd , jim belushi , a.j. buckley , and bryce johnson . on february 3 , 2015 the film was released on video on demand before its theatrical run beginning march 13 , 2015 via vertical entertainment . 
home sweet hell, previously known as north of hell, is a 2015 american dark comedy horror directed by anthony burns and written by carlo allen, ted elrick, and tom lavagnino. the film stars patrick wilson, katherine heigl, jordana brewster, kevin mckidd, jim belushi, a.j. buckley, and bryce johnson. on february 3, 2015 the film was released on video on demand before its theatrical run beginning march 13, 2015 via vertical entertainment.
home sweet hell, previously known as north of hell, is a 2015 american dark comedy horror directed by anthony burns and written by carlo allen, ted elrick, and tom lavagnino. the film stars patrick wilson, katherine heigl, jordana brewster, kevin mckidd, jim belushi, a.j. buckley, and bryce johnson. on february 3, 2015 the film was released on video on demand before its theatrical run beginning march 13, 2015 via vertical entertainment.