Girlhouse

Girlhouse is everything a bunch of teen viewers could want with their popcorn on a Friday night. Bikini babes of all races and sexual archetypes, webcams, a civil and beautiful female protagonist, her likable boyfriend/protector, a wacky pervert and a bloody slaughter. Girlhouse is a strange combination of creative contradictions. The screenplay works creatively with all of the characters and entertains with surprising details despite the formulaic plot. At the same time, it bears the embarrassing marks of amateurish filmmaking and frequent stupidity. Its greatest asset is the killer, who outdoes even the more ponderous Leatherface with his speed and radicalism. The brutality of the slaughter in the movie’s final third is a surprising outcome of the previous refined introduction of the characters, which creates another interesting contrast that sets Girlhouse apart from other, similar movies. (23/06/2022)

For a slasher, it’s good. It has well portrayed and likeable characters, good craftsmanship, a psychopath that demands some respect and murders that, well, aren’t very creative, but I’ve seen much worse. From the name, the poster and the blurb I was expecting some amateur trash relying only on those girls, but in the end it actually works really well as a solid film murder-fest. One of the surprises of the year. (20/02/2015)

The film "GirlHouse" plays with psychological horror, but it truly isn't. In the end, it is just an ordinary slasher film, where the origin of the villain is overly emphasized, but it is still quite effective. The girls are quite attractive here, except for the fact that some of them are artificially enhanced. Overall, I am rather disappointed because much more could have been squeezed out of it than was successful. (09/03/2016)