House Of Spoils (Amazon)- A Spooky Season Review
This is definitely beneath Academy Award Winner Ariana DeBose. You probably aren’t sure what this even is. To be fair, years later, Ariana won’t remember either. In short, a chef is looking to open her own restaurant when she stumbles upon a rather odd garden full of fruits and vegetables she has never encountered. There’s obviously a spooky reason for all of this, but she presses forth anyway.
It feels like a film destined to be forgotten. It comes not long after the excellent The Menu, which will certainly continue to have fans, and makes you wish you could watch I.S.S. Again, as it was the better mediocre Ariana DeBose movie this year. The audio description does do a good job of supporting the horror elements of the movie, the various things that happen that are on a sliding scale of unsettling. A lot of work went into a film I’m not sure anyone has seen, or anyone will seek out.
House Of Spoils doesn’t even feel like the right title, as it feels like maybe they wanted to originally call it The Menu, but then that film happened, so they got caught up in a battle for worst replacement name that says nothing about the film.
Decidedly mediocre.
Final Grade: C