Caveat

This was a good one, could be a spooky low-key modern gothic horror classic. Effectively creepy and atmospheric all the way through in the best manner of well-done horror. A man is hired to spend a few days as caretaker for a mentally ill woman sequestered in a remote island home. Upon arriving, he is chained in a harness ostensibly to prevent him from being able to wander into certain parts of the house. The young woman is alternately completely catatonic, and up wandering the house menacingly with a crossbow. There may be something in the walls.

More about mood than scares or gore, although make no mistake, this is genuinely a horror movie, and if you ask me, it's the way horror should be done... creepy and tense enough to be a date movie, but well-made enough to stand as an actual film, not a cheapo genre exercise. Very reminiscent of how gothic horror used to be made, but not in a derivative or exploitative way—just something that seems to have brought back to life the best lessons of how those old flicks were made.

This is the movie people like Ti West are trying to make and not even coming close. How people like "House Of The Devil" when there's this eludes me.