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House of Spoils

directed by Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy, 2024

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I hope you're hungry for a special screening of Blumhouse's House of Spoils! The free event will be held at The Cabot in Beverly, MA next Thursday, October 10.

I'll be moderating the post-screening discussion with filmmaker Bridget Savage Cole and Academy Award-winning actress Ariana DeBose (West Side Story, Wish)!

Click here to secure your free tickets while supplies last.

Now playing on Prime, the supernatural horror thriller is co-written and co-directed by Cole and Danielle Krudy. DeBose stars Barbie Ferreira, Arian Moayed, Amara Karan, Mikkel Bratt Silset, and Marton Csokas.

House of Spoils follows an ambitious chef (Ariana DeBose) as she opens a restaurant on a remote estate where she battles kitchen chaos, crushing self-doubts… and a haunting presence who threatens to sabotage her at every turn.

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BLOW THE MAN DOWN (2019) Grade: C-

The premise had me hooked, Indie crime too, it looked like something right up my alley. But for whatever reason, it just didn’t click for me.

The first act felt slow and I struggled to connect with the characters, they kinda jump too fast almost with them. Pacing was right for me, felt off.

That said, something shifted in the final act. The emotional payoff started to land, and I found myself warming up to it by the end. I could see myself appreciating it more a second time watching.

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Directed by Bridget Savage Cole & Danielle Krudy

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House of Spoils (2024)

House of Spoils is labeled as a supernatural horror film. Unnatural events take place, there are scary moments throughout but the conclusion recontextualizes so much of what we saw and is so tonally different from what came before that the label feels inaccurate. I’m not sure if a warning that this does not go the way you expect it to will make things more palatable for the audience but I’m going to try anyway.

Elena (Ariana DeBose) leaves her position as the sous chef in Marcello’s kitchen (he’s played by Marton Csokas) to open a new fine-dining restaurant in a remote location in the countryside. Her first efforts prove fruitless – all of the food spoils immediately. In a desperate attempt to meet the deadline imposed by her patron, Andres (Arian Moayed), she begins harvesting ingredients from the abandoned garden next door: a selection of strange plants the locals say was catered by a witch.

The film begins with a flashback to some time ago. Weird, ominous chants are whispered around a fire while a woman is strapped down and fed a strange little cake etched with a symbol. The mood’s been set. You know those lines mean something. The seemingly innocuous things happening to Elena confirm that by settling down in this area, she’s set herself up for trouble. The food that goes moldy instantly, the neverending bugs and the ghostly visions are not stress-induced; there’s something evil here. It gets you excited the way a good horror movie gets you excited. Our heroine is alone, she’s isolated and desperate. You admire her determination to open up her own business and move out from under the shadow of Andres, who isn’t terrible as far as head chefs go… but does make you wonder why ANYONE would want to work in fine-dining if the environment is that stressful and that toxic. The film successfully showcases “scary” aspects of the business too; the way a single critic can just throw your entire menu into the fire, how a single missing ingredient can derail an entire evening and the challenge of having to come up with a revolutionary menu out of thin air.

Another aspect of this film written and directed by Bridget Savage Cole & Danielle Krudy that’s intriguing is the food. In most dark food/restaurant movies, dishes look simultaneously delicious and grotesque to confirm the malicious environment. As Andres puts it when he sees what Elena and her appointed sous-chef, Lucia (Barbie Ferreira) have cooked up, his stew looks like it's been scraped off of a shoe. It's unappetizing. You know it’s a hint that what he's eating has a sinister origin. Only a spell could convince someone to take a bite.

The film’s scariest moment comes in a claustrophobic scene where Elena, locked in the restaurant cellar, is forced to escape through a tunnel that leads to a makeshift tomb. From there… any horror elements in the film vanish. We learn that while the garden Elena has been picking from was tended to by a sorceress… she was a good witch who healed people. So if there was no evil this whole time, why was the building's previous tenant driven to horrifying madness? Why does the witch’s ghost show up in the middle of the night to terrify Elena? Why all the bugs? Why the mold? This sensitive, female empowerment conclusion doesn’t fit the rest of the movie AT ALL. I suddenly had flashbacks of Andrew O'Hehir's butthurt review of The Conjuring, which complained about the depiction of witches as child-murdering, devil-worshippers. Is it possible the movie started off as a straightforward horror film but the writer/directors had a change of heart and hastily rewrote the conclusion to portray more "realistic" depictions of witchcraft? Maybe it was the opposite; it didn't have ANY horror elements at first, but they were introduced after the producers looked at the script and marked it as "non marketable"? Whatever the reason, this finale is a mistake.

I was enthusiastic about House of Spoils for about four-fifths of the running time. Ariana DeBose is likable. You cheer for her character and you're worried when she gets scared. Even if the conclusion comes out of nowhere, doesn’t make much sense and left me dissatisfied, I’m not sorry I saw the film. The parts that work are highly effective. The mismatched ending also works… just not for THIS movie. (November 15, 2024)

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Review: HOUSE OF SPOILS - A Weak Chef’s Table

With the Oscar-winning Ariana DeBose, there was plenty to grow our excitement around the restaurant horror film House of Spoils. Unfortunately, it lands with a thud.

As food entertainment reached new heights, it was only a matter of time before chef stories penetrated genre filmmaking. When The Menu crashed the party in 2022, it dug deep into class and opportunity. Yet there’s much more to pull from blue-collar jobs and their relevance in horror. It’s why House of Spoils instantly landed on our radar. With the Oscar-winning Ariana DeBose, there was plenty to…

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[Interview] 'House of Spoils' Directors Talk New Kind of Witch Movie, and Halloween

[Interview] 'House of Spoils' Directors Talk New Kind of Witch Movie, and Halloween

The new horror movie House of Spoils was just released on Prime Video this week, and we talked to the film’s writing and directing team of Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy recently about creating a new kind of witch, subverting audience’s expectations of the genre, and more. From Blumhouse Television, written and directed by Cole and Krudy, the feature film follows an ambitious chef, played…

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House Of Spoils - Official Trailer | Prime Video

Dir: Bridget Savage Cole / Danielle Krudy Star: Barbie Ferreira / Arian Moayed / Amara Karan

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House of Spoils Trailer

An ambitious chef opens her first restaurant on a remote estate. She will have to contend with kitchen chaos, her investor, her own self doubts, and the spirit of the estate's previous owner.

House of Spoils stars Ariana DeBose, Barbie Ferreira, and Arian Moayed. The film is written and directed by Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy.

House of Spoils streams on Prime Video on October 3, 2024.

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A Casa Mórbida

A Casa Mórbida (House of Spoils) SINOPSE: Da produtora Blumhouse Television, A Casa Mórbida acompanha uma chef ambiciosa (Ariana DeBose) que abre um restaurante em um local remoto, onde lutará contra o caos na cozinha, falta de autoconfiança… e uma presença assombrosa que ameaça sabotá-la a todo momento. Informações técnicas: DIREÇÃO: Bridget Savage Cole, Danielle Krudy ROTEIRO: Bridget Savage…

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Danielle Krudy and Bridget Savage Cole talk about ‘House of Spoils’

A recurring director’s partnership between Danielle Krudy and Bridget Savage Cole finds them releasing their second feature film. House of Spoils is about a talented chef (Ariana DeBose) opening a restaurant in a haunted house and finding herself caught up between trying to make ends meet as a chef aspiring for greatness, with things constantly going wrong while a demon haunts her from the…

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HOUSE OF SPOILS Culinary horror with Ariana DeBose - soon on Prime

‘Bring your appetite’ House of Spoils is a 2024 horror film about an ambitious young chef who opens her first restaurant on a remote estate where she battles kitchen chaos, a dubious investor, crushing self-doubts… and the powerful spirit of the estate’s previous owner who threatens to sabotage her at every turn. Blurb: “House of Spoils is a tense, psychological, sensuous thriller that will leave…

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Nuovi Incubi Halloween Challenge Day 29: House of Spoils

Regia – Bridget Savage Cole, Danielle Krudy (2024) Oggi è la mia giornata, perché è quella in cui vi obbligo a scegliere un film della Blumhouse e a celebrarlo, così i cospicui bonifici che ogni mese Jason Blum mi manda saranno ancora più cospicui del solito. Sono consapevole del fatto che il 90% della horror community non ha un’elevata opinione della casa di produzione fondata da Blum…

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Films of 2024: House of Spoils (dirs. Bridget Savage Cole + Danielle Krudy)

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The Stand 4. The House of the Dead (2021)

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Blow the man down, 2019, by Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy