Rent The House That Jack Built (2018)

Rubbish - The House That Jack Built review by JS

Weird arty arrogant rubbish. Enjoyed seeing Uma, but should have switched off after that. Very boring and trying to hard to the ‘different’

Brutal but good - The House That Jack Built review by AL

A very intriguing film, well acted, looks lovely but be prepared it gets very brutal.

Certainly not a film for everyone but with this director what would you really expect? If you liked his previous films I'd certainly give it a watch, if you hated them probably best avoid.

I really liked the plot and the pacing for the first 3/4 of the film but not so much towards the end, could just be me. Certainly different from the norm and very interesting viewing.

Awful - The House That Jack Built review by TD

Terrible film , that bad that we switched it off half way through, I definitely would not recommend this film , awful x

The Charnel House that Jack Built - The House That Jack Built review by porky

Strange trip through the life of a Serial Killer ,From Beginning to End .

Cross between 'American Psycho' ,'Henry,Portrait of a Serial Killer' and 'Man Bites Dog'.

Gruesome , Grim , Blatant and Unapologetic in its Honest Nastiness following close behind a Self Confessed Psychopath .

I Enjoyed it but I wouldn't ever bother watching it again. See it to Experience it. Great and Nightmarishly Believable Effects .

Really wanted this to be good - The House That Jack Built review by SH

So i saw the trailers for this a while back and was desperate to see this movie and finally i have. I love the twisted violence and the mentality of Jack. I wanted this to be a new Psycho. Unfortunately the film under delivers. It's broken down into several stories that make up the development of Jack but there's no real connectivity between them. It's more like a movie of short stories rather than a developing single story which makes the film feel a bit disjointed. The scenes for the first two thirds of the movie are good in the sense of exploring how he kills his victims but there's a real lack of depth when it comes to how these acts have come about. No real back story, no information about how Jack became Jack, just a few snippets and after a while you start to feel like you can watch the movie without watching it.

At the end, it just gets weird. No spoilers but i got completely lost and so did my housemate who watched it with me and went off to do some washing up instead of watching. Your left with a confused ending and even writing this now i don't really know how to summarise how it ends. There's no conclusion which makes you feel like you've wasted your time.

I will say the sound track suits the movie perfectly! But this is one of those movies where the trailer promises much and the movie under delivers which is a shame. I really wanted this to be an epic, unfortunately it's an art house extravagance that under delivers

The House that Jack Built - The House That Jack Built review by PB

For those who get bored by the glut of formula flicks this film is a rare treat. From the title which could be taken from the nursery rhyme to the references to Virgil it's loaded with symbolism from the start to the finish. A poem for the unfortunate Jack, I found this film hugely entertaining but don’t want to spoil it for those who are thinking of giving it a try except to say that like the nursery rhyme, the film builds on the story line by line and divides it up into ‘events’ which ratchet up Jack’s deeds into sections of what we come to realize is symbolic of a deeper and deeper initiation into his own psychopathy. 

Not an easy watch - The House That Jack Built review by NK

I watched The House That Jack Built in a cinema and it played on my mind for a long time afterward. It is mesmerising in its creative cruelty as we follow the development of a warped serial killer, but I almost felt ashamed of myself for watching it, as if I had willingly partaken in its cruelties, or had at least somehow permitted them to happen. I'm glad now that I watched it, but I wasn't so sure of that for a long time.