Dream House2011
Dream House (2011)
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Cast
as Will Atenton
as Libby Atenton
as Ann Paterson
as Boyce
as Jack Patterson

as Trish
as Dee Dee
as Chloe Patterson
as Dr. Greeley
as Dr. Medlin
as Heather Keeler
as Cindi
as Artie

as Capt. Conklin
as Officer Nelson
as Tommy

as New Editor
as Sadie
as Tony Ferguson

as Young Author

as Author's Assistant/Guard 1

as Author's Assistant/Guard 2
as Martin
as Harkness Client

as Harkness Receptionist
as Building Inspector
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Critic Reviews for Dream House
All Critics (88) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (83) | DVD (3)
The fragile hope that we might have a grown-up horror movie on our hands is smashed to smithereens.

This is a workmanlike movie that is never quite scary enough, and never quite ingenious enough, though the four leads do an honest enough job.

An utter waste of time and talent.

A well-acted but ramshackle mess.

Like most of its ilk, this starts off nicely but doesn't hold up to close rational scrutiny.

This film is a confounding mess despite its impressive cast and director.

Audience Reviews for Dream House
This mess of a film has a few interesting elements but the stupid plot wants so badly to be convoluted that it forgets to be coherent or even plausible. And beware, the trailer gives away the entire movie, including the twists, which only proves that the people in charge of the marketing are complete imbeciles.
Super Reviewer
It's really surprising that this film hasn't been paid more attention. Not positive attention, mind you, but the kind of attention that truly bad films deserve. This film should have been eviscerated, picked apart, and trivialized until it couldn't languish in its obscurity any longer. Director Jim Sheridan (a six time Oscar nominee) tried to get his name taken off of this film after it was recut, and the trailer released, which gave away the entire twist of the film. That's right, if you watch the trailer, you will understand the entire film without having to watch it. Daniel Craig plays a father and husband, who lives in a house, which apparently was home to a family who was murdered five years prior. While the film looks like a ghost story, it's actually a psychological mystery, which it needn't be. This film is clumsy, thoughtless, confusing, and doesn't know what it wants to be. The ending is slapped on carelessly, in a way that makes you laugh incredulously, like "Really? That's how you're going to end this horrible tale?" The murders are handled horribly, trying to make the gruesome deaths somehow dreamlike, taking away all the familial tension. The specters somehow have agency, and shift from his mind to nearly tangible phantoms. If you're looking for a well handled haunted house film, this is not it.
Super Reviewer
This was an entertaining movie but to my dismay the main plot twist was given away by the trailer! I would've loved this movie if the twist and the thrill (things which make mystery movies good) weren't revealed beforehand!

Super Reviewer
Dream House Quotes
Will Atenton: | Stay away from my family or i'll kill you! |
Will Atenton: | Stay away from my family or I'll kill you! |
Trish: | Everyone who lives in this house gets killed. |
Trish: | Everybody who lives in this house gets killed. |
Will Atenton: | One upon a time, there were two little girls that lived in a house. |
Libby Atenton: | How could the neighbors not have said anything to us? |