Paperhouse

If Guillermo De Toro fantasy images actually cointained real pain and horror. The episode with the father remains one of the more troubling represantations of childhood trauma put on film and everything else is not that far off that quality-wise.

Filipe Furtado

8/10 People say that this is a horror film, but its really not. Its more of a fantasy-drama where 10 minutes of it become a horror film. The fact that our protagonist is a child gives this film a unique child-like nature to it, especially during the dream sequences.…

FoundOnYouTube

Pitch perfect dark fantasy / horror with some of the most incredible set design I’ve ever seen in a film. It kind of ends three times, but they make it work. Some absolutely gorgeous imagery here, and some genuinely scary stuff too.

Trevor Henderson

She drew that boy without legs so he couldn't run away.

Horror Syndrome

This was a return to an old love affair that didn't disappoint at all. It's hard to accurately classify this film. At its heart it's a fantasy film, with horror elements wrapped in a coming of age drama. It is a beautifully told story that is as enchanting as it is…

DirkH

godly...like the exact negative of those awful roald dahl stories about how being a bookish kid gives you magic powers and makes you better than everyone else. escapism without escape and the limitations of dreams brought into focus so that we might understand the things…

Jude

While questions about what constitutes a horror film are usually steeped in pretense, I feel like questioning Paperhouse's genre is a worthwhile way to analyze the film. For an extended segment in the middle, it does engage in a lot of horror tropes and suspense as a shadow…

Sally Jane Black

There’ll never be a need for a live-action Coraline because Paperhouse exists. A visually arresting debut from Bernard Rose with interestingly obscured daddy horror (truthful to child’s repression), great dream world design, four weak endings too many and a hokey as hell…

Brian Formo

As a young 'un I used to rent videos from a movie store, and this one was always sitting there on the horror shelf. I was never tempted to rent it because I thought it looked like "kiddie horror" which was obviously beneath me at the time. Anyhow, curiosity has gotten the…

FKAGoregirl