![]() While getting to know Max, she casually remarks, “Our basement is the gaping mouth to hell. Marlow (Caruso) is particularly obnoxious, fond of smug, cryptic one-liners. The jars, A1656 (Alyssa Emily Marvin) informs Henry (Sparks) contain, “The Nectar of Dead Men.” When Henry gets up in the dead of night to raid the fridge for this addicting substance, he is accosted by The Ancient (Cyndi Coyne), another horror staple: the elderly woman as grotesque wraith. A refrigerator opens to reveal shelves of mason jars filled with liquid. The whole thing is dusted with feminism, lending it an aura of moral seriousness. Holloway’s script is also full of campy winks at its precious ambiguities, as if Edward Albee had a subscription to Shudder and decided he could do that, dammit. That’s enough supernatural elements for three horror flicks rolled into one, as if a pileup of clichés somehow accrues depth. Paul Sparks and Colby Kipnes in ‘Grey House.’ MurphyMade (Metcalf plays Raleigh, the girls’ grumbly, outgoing caregiver.) There’s also a large, reddish quilt woven from flesh, and a process that (checks notes) milks the evil out of bad men. The wife of the man becomes the new caretaker/surrogate mom. When an unfortunate new couple arrives at the cabin, the man is tortured and sacrificed so one of the girls’ souls may depart. But besides aping a popular genre, what is the point of Grey House ? As far as I can tell, its tedious 100 minutes depict a ritual purgation for young women killed by monstrous men throughout the centuries. Lars von Trier’s Antichrist probably furnished marital angst. He mixes in J-horror girl-ghouls seeking revenge ( The Ring ). In building his murky fable, the writer shamelessly raids horror classics: Stephen King’s confinement freakouts The Shining and Misery, most obviously. (Tatiana Maslany is in the ensemble but, due to illness, was not at the performance I attended instead, the warm and appealing Claire Karpen played Max.) Yes, Holloway sure won the lottery audiences who pay for his pretentious pulp? Not so much. His 2019 shocker was plucked out of obscurity (a Chicago run) by producers and director Joe Mantello ( Wicked ), who give it a deluxe production filled with A-list actors: Laurie Metcalf, Paul Sparks, and Beetlejuice TikTok sensation Sophia Anne Caruso. Playwright Levi Holloway is certainly lucky. ![]() Here, there’s only the mounting dread that you’re trapped in a pretentious trauma-drama using horror tropes to diminishing effect. The main difference is a tub of buttery popcorn and a good jump scare or two. Early on, the man jokes that he’s seen this movie before. Ad blocking has always been free and we intend to keep it that way.In Grey House, a couple driving through a mountain snowstorm circa 1977 crashes and takes refuge in a creaky cabin full of spooky girls and their oddball mother hen. Please note that this upgrade option does not provide additional ad blocking. Be sure to tell them to get AdBlock from our website,, so they get the right one.įor the desktop extensions on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge you can upgrade to AdBlock Premium which provides customization features that have been requested by our users but require more development resources than we can support through one-time contributions. You can also tell all your friends about AdBlock! There are a lot of copycats out there. Giving AdBlock a good review in your browser's extension store helps other folks find us. You can still support us in other ways that won’t cost you a dime. ![]() If you don't want to pay, or can't afford to, no problem! You can close our contribution page by clicking the "x" on the tab. If you change your mind, you can get a refund just by asking. Regardless of whether you make a contribution or upgrade, if you set up a recurring payment, you can cancel it at any time. We also offer an upgrade option, AdBlock Premium, which gives you access to customizations within the extension with your continued support through a recurring subscription (more on this below). If you choose to contribute to AdBlock, you can do that here: /pay. That’s why we make AdBlock available as “honorware": Pay what you can, when you can. We believe that people who love AdBlock will pay a fair price for it. Sadly, we're not that kind either.ĪdBlock is the third kind, a product supported by people just like you who pay whatever they think is fair for not seeing the roughly 1,500 ads we block for them every week. One kind turns you into their product by selling your personal data to third parties. Well, three kinds of companies offer a really great and useful service without charging for it. And it's 100% free, completely, utterly, forever. No more annoying ads to slow you down, clog your feed, and come between you and your videos.
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