Review of Don't Leave Home (2018) by Charles B — 18 Sep 2018

Atrociously acted (the American accents of the unmistakably Irish protagonist and the art-dealer aren't remotely convincing,) poorly paced, incomprehensible, and boring. Some nice shots but the sound design is uniformly terrible, with overwrought 'Celtic' music drowning out entire lines of inaudible dialog.

Some very poor light-balance. Filled with plot contrivances, this film is like an over-signposted road to nowhere; a dismal, sophomore, soporific effort that panders to an American tourist audience. Its mysteries amount to little more than vagueness, and ludicrous arthouse clichés like the 'rich buyers' in their powdered wigs feel like bargain-basement Pasolini.

The theme of models and dioramas only emphasizes woeful comparisons to the wonderful 'Hereditary', and comparisons to 'Get Out' are insulting. The awful David McSavage appears as a ludicrous Riff-Raff/ Lurch-style factotum.