The House of the Devil

A financially pressed college student, Samantha, takes a babysitting job at an isolated Victorian house. The arrangement falls on the night of a total lunar eclipse. Her friend Megan warns her against going alone but drives her out to the house anyway and leaves her there. Samantha soon finds that the elderly couple she is working for are hiding something, and that the child she was hired to watch is nowhere to be seen. What begins as an ordinary job turns into a night of mounting danger.

Ti West wrote and directed the film, which followed his earlier features and came before the anthology segment he contributed to V/H/S. Jocelin Donahue plays Samantha, with Tom Noonan and Mary Woronov as Mr. and Mrs. Ulman, Greta Gerwig as Megan, AJ Bowen as Victor Ulman, and Dee Wallace as the landlady. Josh Braun, Larry Fessenden and Roger Kass produced.

The film was released in the United States at the end of October 2009 and runs 95 minutes. On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.3 from roughly 55,000 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 6.2 from a much smaller base of 882 votes. A critics' rating of 7.3 from 104 reviews places professional assessments somewhat above the audience scores.