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House of Dust

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House of Dust
HOD-Teaser-Poster.jpg
Teaser poster
Directed byA.D. Calvo
Screenplay byNevada Grey & Alyssa Alexandria
Story byA.D. Calvo
Produced byA.D. Calvo, Todd Slater
Starring
CinematographyChristo Bakalov
Production
company
Budderfly / Goodnight Film
Distributed byAnchor Bay Entertainment
Release date
  • May 20, 2014 (2014-05-20) (United States)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

House of Dust is a 2014 supernatural thriller film directed by A.D. Calvo.[1] The movie had its world premiere on May 20, 2014 and focuses on a group of college students that become possessed by the ghosts of former mental patients. Filming took place in Willimantic, Connecticut and Mansfield, Connecticut at the Mansfield Training School and Hospital, University of Connecticut, and Eastern Connecticut State University during the summer of 2011.[2][3]

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Thriller (genre)

Thriller (genre)

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Willimantic, Connecticut

Willimantic, Connecticut

Willimantic is a census-designated place located in the town of Windham in Windham County, Connecticut, United States. It is a former city and borough, and is currently organized as one of two tax districts within the Town of Windham. Known as "Thread City" for the American Thread Company's mills along the Willimantic River, it was a center of the textile industry in the 19th century. Originally incorporated as a city in 1893, it entered a period of decline after the Second World War, culminating in the mill's closure and the city's reabsorption into the town of Windham in the 1980s. Heroin use, present since the 1960s, became a major public health problem in the early 2000s, declining somewhat by the 2010s. Though the city was a major rail hub, an Interstate Highway has never passed within ten miles, despite early plans to connect it.

Mansfield, Connecticut

Mansfield, Connecticut

Mansfield is a town in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 25,892 at the 2020 census.

Mansfield Training School and Hospital

Mansfield Training School and Hospital

The Mansfield Training School and Hospital was a state-run facility for the mentally handicapped located in Mansfield, Connecticut, United States. It was active from 1860 to 1993. Its former campus, located at the junction of Connecticut Route 32 and United States Route 44 in Mansfield is a 350-acre (140 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

University of Connecticut

University of Connecticut

The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut. It was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School, named after two brothers who donated the land for the school. In 1893, the school became a public land grant college, becoming the University of Connecticut in 1939. Over the following decade, social work, nursing and graduate programs were established, while the schools of law and pharmacy were also absorbed into the university. During the 1960s, UConn Health was established for new medical and dental schools. UConn is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.

Eastern Connecticut State University

Eastern Connecticut State University

Eastern Connecticut State University is a public liberal arts university in Willimantic, Connecticut. Founded in 1889, it is the second-oldest campus in the Connecticut State University System and third-oldest public university in the state. Eastern is located on Windham Street in Willimantic, Connecticut, on 182 acres (0.74 km2) 30 minutes from Hartford, lying midway between New York City and Boston. Although the majority of courses are held on the main campus, select classes take place at Manchester Community College, Capital Community College, and a satellite center in Groton.

Plot

1951 - Having already killed OCD patient Billy Brown (Michael Goodin) at the Redding House Asylum, a psychiatrist (Stephen Spinella) experiments on simple-minded inmate Melvin Veman (Peyton Clarkson) and sociopath Levius Laitura (John Lee Ames). With Levius still alive, the psychiatrist has his orderlies put the bodies of all three men inside the crematorium to burn them.

Present Day - Camden College student Dylan (Eddie Hassell) tells his girlfriend Gabby (Holland Roden) and his roommate Kolt (Steven Grayhm) about the now abandoned asylum's haunted history. New student Emma (Inbar Lavi) moves in as Gabby's roommate and Kolt takes a liking to her. However, fellow students Allyson (Alesandra Assante), Christine (Nicole Travolta) and Blythe (Joy Lauren) do not.

Dylan, Kolt, Gabby and Emma break into Redding House after a party to look around despite a warning from campus security guard Clyde (Justin James Lang). Emma has strange experiences while exploring on her own. The other three knock over a container of cremated ashes and inhale the dust of the three men burned there in 1951.

A recovering psychiatric patient herself, Emma begins experiencing haunting visions upon returning to the dorm. The behavior of the other three students gradually changes as Billy possesses Dylan, Melvin inhabits Gabby and Levius takes control of Kolt's body.

Allyson is killed by someone unseen while doing laundry. Christine is later killed while taking her dog outside. Suspecting that the disappearances and the odd behaviors are related to the asylum, Emma tries to go back to Redding House, but Clyde prevents her from going inside.

With Levius in full control of his actions, Kolt attacks Emma. Emma eventually flees into the asylum and confirms her suspicions when she examines patient records and finds the empty urn knocked over by the others. Emma then finds the dead bodies of Allyson, Christine and Blythe (who was killed off screen).

Kolt captures Emma, but Dylan knocks him unconscious (he also knocks Emma unconscious as well) and traps Kolt in the crematorium with Gabby. Emma recovers and frees Kolt and Gabby from the fire, which releases everyone from their possessions. Dylan coughs up Billy's spirit as well. The four students escape Redding House with Clyde's assistance. The crematorium dust goes through the chimney and into the air, ultimately possessing a little boy (Anthony Scarpone-Lambert) playing in the park with the other children nearby.

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Eddie Hassell

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Holland Roden

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Inbar Lavi

Inbar Lavi

Inbar Lavi is an actress. She is known for portraying Raviva on the 2012 MTV series Underemployed, Vee on the 2014 Fox television series Gang Related, and Sheba on the Fox series Prison Break. Lavi starred in the 2017–2018 Bravo television series Imposters, and played Eve in the final three seasons of the Netflix series Lucifer.

Joy Lauren

Joy Lauren

Joy Lauren Jorgensen is an American producer, director and writer and former actress. She is known for playing Danielle Van de Kamp on the ABC comedy-drama series Desperate Housewives.

Cast

  • Inbar Lavi as Emma
  • Steven Grayhm as Kolt
  • Eddie Hassell as Dylan
  • Holland Roden as Gabby
  • John Lee Ames as Levius Laitura
  • Peyton Clarkson as Melvin Veman
  • Michael Goodin as Billy Brown
  • Stephen Spinella as Psychiatrist
  • Justin James Lang as Clyde
  • Alesandra Assante as Allyson
  • Joy Lauren as Blythe
  • Nicole Travolta as Christine
  • Anthony Scarpone-Lambert as Boy

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Inbar Lavi

Inbar Lavi

Inbar Lavi is an actress. She is known for portraying Raviva on the 2012 MTV series Underemployed, Vee on the 2014 Fox television series Gang Related, and Sheba on the Fox series Prison Break. Lavi starred in the 2017–2018 Bravo television series Imposters, and played Eve in the final three seasons of the Netflix series Lucifer.

Eddie Hassell

Eddie Hassell

Lord Ed Taylor Hassell was an American actor. His most notable role was the 2013 film Jobs, where he played the young Chris Espinosa.

Holland Roden

Holland Roden

Holland Roden is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Lydia Martin in MTV's teen drama series Teen Wolf, Zoe Woods in Syfy's horror anthology series Channel Zero: Butcher's Block, Bridget Cleary in Amazon Prime Video's horror anthology documentary series Lore and as Erin Isaacs in the horror film No Escape.

Stephen Spinella

Stephen Spinella

Stephen Spinella is an American stage, television, and film actor.

Joy Lauren

Joy Lauren

Joy Lauren Jorgensen is an American producer, director and writer and former actress. She is known for playing Danielle Van de Kamp on the ABC comedy-drama series Desperate Housewives.

Reception

HorrorNews.net panned House of Dust, praising the movie's cast while stating that the movie "didn’t bring anything new to the table and was just lackluster and forgettable overall".[4] DVD Verdict gave a mixed review and commented that while the movie was "no classic", that "A.D. Calvo directs the action well and gets good performances from actors lacking much experience" and that it would appeal best to fans of independent horror or films set in mental institutions.[5]

Source: "House of Dust", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, December 18th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Dust.

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References
  1. ^ "'House of Dust' Cast Revealed, Shooting Underway". Bloody Disgusting. 3 August 2011. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
  2. ^ Lenker, George (19 May 2014). "Longmeadow filmmaker assists in new horror release, 'House of Dust'". MassLive. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
  3. ^ Chaiken, Mike. "New horror flick uses Connecticut as its backdrop" (PDF). The Step Saver/ The Observer. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
  4. ^ Martin, Todd (13 May 2014). "Film Review: House of Dust". HorrorNews.net. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
  5. ^ Loomis, Daryl (22 May 2014). "House of Dust (review)". DVD Verdict. Archived from the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
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