{"id":491014,"date":"2022-09-07T17:05:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T14:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/neil-labute-returns-to-horror-with-house-of-darkness\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T17:05:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T14:05:32","slug":"neil-labute-returns-to-horror-with-house-of-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/neil-labute-returns-to-horror-with-house-of-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"#Neil LaBute Returns to Horror With House of Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3c3d06233f0\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3c3d06233f0\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/neil-labute-returns-to-horror-with-house-of-darkness\/#%E2%80%9CNeil_LaBute_Returns_to_Horror_With_House_of_Darkness%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Neil LaBute Returns to Horror With House of Darkness&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/neil-labute-returns-to-horror-with-house-of-darkness\/#Neil_LaButes_Turn_Toward_Horror\" >Neil LaBute&#8217;s Turn Toward Horror<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/neil-labute-returns-to-horror-with-house-of-darkness\/#From_The_Wicker_Man_to_House_of_Darkness\" >From The Wicker Man to House of Darkness<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/neil-labute-returns-to-horror-with-house-of-darkness\/#LaBute_is_in_Control_With_House_of_Darkness\" >LaBute is in Control With House of Darkness<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CNeil_LaBute_Returns_to_Horror_With_House_of_Darkness%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Neil LaBute Returns to Horror With House of Darkness&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<strong>Neil LaBute<\/strong> has trod a pretty singular path throughout his long career in the arts. The playwright-turned-Hollywood-director-turned-horror-fanatic is associated with a different assemblage of hyphens than most artists, his career being largely defined by the success of controversial plays (<em>Fat Pig<\/em>) and films (<em>In the Company of Men<\/em>), but also critically reviled &#8216;failures&#8217; (his Nicolas Cage-starring remake of <em>The Wicker Man<\/em>) and some intriguing anomalies (<em>Nurse Betty<\/em>).<br \/>\n <!-- No winning ad found for zone: word count #1! --><!-- No winning ad found for zone: below first paragraph! --><!-- No winning ad found for zone: mid intro! --><br \/>\nLaBute shifted his trajectory a bit after a decade of making provocative but critically acclaimed films like <em>Your Friends and Neighbors <\/em>and <em>The Shape of Things<\/em>, instead turning to schlocky genre territory with horror. His aforementioned <em>Wicker Man<\/em> remake, though certainly much more fun and entertaining than its feedback would imply, received an infamous amount of mockery and hate to the extent that it&#8217;s honestly surprising LaBute continued with the horror genre, staging <em>Dracula<\/em> for the theater and creating and writing the immensely fun TV show <em>Van Helsing<\/em>.<br \/>\n<!-- Zone: character count repeatable. --><\/p>\n<div class=\"adsninja-ad-zone\" id=\"adsninja-ad-zone-MW-Reg-Org\">\n<div id=\"dynamically-injected-refresh-ad-zone-MW-Reg-Org\" class=\"dynamically-injected-refresh-ad-zone\">\n<div class=\"ad-current\">\n<div id=\"ad-zone-container-MW-Reg-Org\" class=\"ad-zone-container ad-zone-container-content-character-count-repeatable-1\" data-no-fill-collapsable=\"false\"><strong class=\"ad-zone-advertising-tag\">MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>After more than 15 years since <em>The Wicker Man<\/em>, LaBute is back with another feature horror film, <em><strong>House of Darkness<\/strong><\/em>, starring Justin Long as a man hoping to hook up with a woman (played by Kate Bosworth) after driving her home to a very creepy, gothic mansion. The writer\/director spoke to MovieWeb about what he learned after <em>Wicker Man<\/em>, how the horror genre is conducive to his style, and how <em>House of Darkness<\/em> fits into his oeuvre.<br \/>\n <!-- No winning ad found for zone: word count #2! --><!-- No winning ad found for zone: native in content! --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"neil-labute-39-s-turn-toward-horror\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Neil_LaButes_Turn_Toward_Horror\"><\/span> Neil LaBute&#8217;s Turn Toward Horror<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"body-img landscape\">\n<div class=\"responsive-img expandable img-article-item\" style=\"padding-bottom:52.5%\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Justin-Long-and-Kate-Bosworth-sit-in-the-Neil-LaBute-movie-House-of-Darkness.jpg\" data-modal-id=\"single-image-modal\" data-modal-container-id=\"single-image-modal-container\" data-img-caption=\"&quot;Saban Films&quot;\">\n<figure> <picture> <!--[if IE 9]> <video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" sizes=\"750px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Justin-Long-and-Kate-Bosworth-sit-in-the-Neil-LaBute-movie-House-of-Darkness.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" sizes=\"943px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Justin-Long-and-Kate-Bosworth-sit-in-the-Neil-LaBute-movie-House-of-Darkness.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" sizes=\"767px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Justin-Long-and-Kate-Bosworth-sit-in-the-Neil-LaBute-movie-House-of-Darkness.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" sizes=\"480px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Justin-Long-and-Kate-Bosworth-sit-in-the-Neil-LaBute-movie-House-of-Darkness.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><img width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Justin Long and Kate Bosworth sit in the Neil LaBute movie House of Darkness\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Justin-Long-and-Kate-Bosworth-sit-in-the-Neil-LaBute-movie-House-of-Darkness.jpg\"\/> <\/picture><figcaption class=\"body-img-caption\">Saban Films<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>LaBute&#8217;s first film, <em>In the Company of Men<\/em>, was a disturbing dark comedy about two bored businessmen who decide to find a vulnerable woman and do whatever they can to emotionally hurt her. The filmmaker and playwright followed this up with other acclaimed films<em>, <\/em>but his misanthropic world of middle-class yuppies and romantically confused, sexually frustrated Americans seemed miles away from the kind of folkloric horror seen in the &#8217;70s masterpiece <em>The Wicker Man<\/em>. That&#8217;s why it was so odd for many fans when LaBute took on a remake of the British classic, and then shifted a sizable amount of his artistic focus toward horror-centric projects.<br \/>\n<!-- Zone: character count repeatable. --><br \/>\n&#8220;Horror gets right down to the black and white of all that, and allows you to really indulge,&#8221; said LaBute. &#8220;When you&#8217;re doing something that&#8217;s a little more white collar and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>ly <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ropriate, it&#8217;s often kind of like esoteric warfare, as opposed to outright warfare. So you get your hands a little dirtier [with horror], and I think it can be a lot of fun.&#8221; It&#8217;s true \u2014 the notion of outright horror is actually essential to LaBute&#8217;s work (the horror of sexual relations, the horror of capitalism, the horror of harboring the same potentially hateful and harmful human nature as everyone else), but it is <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly an abstract notion in the background of his more sophisticated, intellectual films and plays.<br \/>\n<!-- Zone: character count repeatable. --><br \/>\n <!-- No winning ad found for zone: word count #3! --><br \/>\n<span class=\"related-single\">Related: House of Darkness Review: Neil LaBute Mines Fun Horror From a One Night Stand<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the &#8216;low culture&#8217; art of horror reared its terrifying head in his career, which makes sense considering how formative the genre was for LaBute. &#8220;My mother was someone who loved to be scared,&#8221; said LaBute, &#8220;so she would see all kinds of scary films and took me to them as well. And so I got to do that at an early age, and that made a big impression. When I got a chance to try and create some horror of my own, it&#8217;s because it was something that I really wanted to do. So I dived in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"from-the-wicker-man-to-house-of-darkness\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"From_The_Wicker_Man_to_House_of_Darkness\"><\/span> From The Wicker Man to House of Darkness<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"body-img landscape\">\n<div class=\"responsive-img expandable img-article-item\" style=\"padding-bottom:52.5%\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Justin-Long-in-the-Neil-LaBute-film-House-of-Darkness.jpg\" data-modal-id=\"single-image-modal\" data-modal-container-id=\"single-image-modal-container\" data-img-caption=\"&quot;Saban Films&quot;\">\n<figure> <picture> <!--[if IE 9]> <video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" sizes=\"750px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Justin-Long-in-the-Neil-LaBute-film-House-of-Darkness.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" sizes=\"943px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Justin-Long-in-the-Neil-LaBute-film-House-of-Darkness.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" sizes=\"767px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Justin-Long-in-the-Neil-LaBute-film-House-of-Darkness.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" sizes=\"480px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Justin-Long-in-the-Neil-LaBute-film-House-of-Darkness.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><img width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Justin Long in the Neil LaBute film House of Darkness\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Justin-Long-in-the-Neil-LaBute-film-House-of-Darkness.jpg\"\/> <\/picture><figcaption class=\"body-img-caption\">Saban Films<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Even if his new film is the very good <em>House of Darkness<\/em>, mentioning <em>The Wicker Man<\/em> is seemingly inescapable when attempting to speak of LaBute and horror in the same breath. LaBute loved the horror genre and the original movie so much that it&#8217;s almost a shame to see how much mockery has been made of his passion with <em>The Wicker Man<\/em>. Known primarily for one of the wildest Nicolas Cage performances (with Cage beating up women while wearing a full bear costume and screaming &#8220;Not the bees!&#8221;), responses to <em>The Wicker Man<\/em> remake would have mortally wounded the careers of most other directors.<br \/>\n<!-- Zone: character count repeatable. --><br \/>\n <!-- No winning ad found for zone: word count #4! --><br \/>\nIn addition to the myriad mocking memes, the film didn&#8217;t even earn back its $40 million budget, and yet here LaBute is, promoting his return to feature film horror with <em>House of Darkness<\/em> despite what some might call a serious past blemish. For the record, his <em>Wicker Man<\/em> deserves a reappraisal as a fun glimpse into the nightmares of authoritative men (an island of powerful women where a man has no control certainly is a kind of hell for many men), but LaBute has certainly learned a lot from the reception of that film 15 years ago and has put these lessons into practice for <em>House of Darkness<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"body-img landscape\">\n<div class=\"responsive-img expandable img-article-item\" style=\"padding-bottom:52.5%\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Nicolas-Cage-screams-_Not-the-bees!_-in-The-Wicker-Man.jpg\" data-modal-id=\"single-image-modal\" data-modal-container-id=\"single-image-modal-container\" data-img-caption=\"&quot;Warner Bros.&quot;\">\n<figure> <picture> <!--[if IE 9]> <video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" sizes=\"750px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Nicolas-Cage-screams-_Not-the-bees!_-in-The-Wicker-Man.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" sizes=\"943px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Nicolas-Cage-screams-_Not-the-bees!_-in-The-Wicker-Man.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" sizes=\"767px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Nicolas-Cage-screams-_Not-the-bees!_-in-The-Wicker-Man.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" sizes=\"480px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Nicolas-Cage-screams-_Not-the-bees!_-in-The-Wicker-Man.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><img width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Nicolas Cage screams \" not=\"\" the=\"\" bees=\"\" in=\"\" wicker=\"\" man=\"\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Nicolas-Cage-screams-_Not-the-bees!_-in-The-Wicker-Man.jpg\"\/> <\/picture><figcaption class=\"body-img-caption\">Warner Bros.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;There were a lot of cooks in that particular kitchen,&#8221; said LaBute of <em>The Wicker Man<\/em>, &#8220;and when you have people who have a lot of different opinions and a lot of different approaches, you can often just bland out that broth a little bit.&#8221; Translating any artistic vision from the nebulous headspace of a creator into a concrete, collaborative environment like film is always difficult and rarely accurate, and even harder when there are countless studio heads and producers who have conflicting input. LaBute elaborated:<br \/>\n<!-- Zone: character count repeatable. --><br \/>\n <!-- No winning ad found for zone: word count #5! --><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nYou have this thing in your head, and you end up creating this other thing, and the distance between those two is less than or greater than each time out. It&#8217;s a little different, that distance, but in this particular case [of <em>The Wicker Man<\/em>], there were a lot of people with input into what it is. Is it horror, is it a comedy? I mean, of course there were elements of everything. You can&#8217;t have a guy running around in a bear suit without expecting a few snickers, but knowing that we were going to kill him in the end, we thought we could allow for that.\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2 id=\"labute-is-in-control-with-house-of-darkness\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"LaBute_is_in_Control_With_House_of_Darkness\"><\/span> LaBute is in Control With House of Darkness<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"body-img landscape\">\n<div class=\"responsive-img expandable img-article-item\" style=\"padding-bottom:52.5%\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Kate-Bosworth-sits-in-the-Neil-LaBute-movie-House-of-Darkness.jpg\" data-modal-id=\"single-image-modal\" data-modal-container-id=\"single-image-modal-container\" data-img-caption=\"&quot;Saban Films&quot;\">\n<figure> <picture> <!--[if IE 9]> <video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" sizes=\"750px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Kate-Bosworth-sits-in-the-Neil-LaBute-movie-House-of-Darkness.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" sizes=\"943px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Kate-Bosworth-sits-in-the-Neil-LaBute-movie-House-of-Darkness.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" sizes=\"767px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Kate-Bosworth-sits-in-the-Neil-LaBute-movie-House-of-Darkness.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" sizes=\"480px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Kate-Bosworth-sits-in-the-Neil-LaBute-movie-House-of-Darkness.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><img width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Kate Bosworth sits in the Neil LaBute movie House of Darkness\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Kate-Bosworth-sits-in-the-Neil-LaBute-movie-House-of-Darkness.jpg\"\/> <\/picture><figcaption class=\"body-img-caption\">Saban Films<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>House of Darkness<\/em> was an entirely different situation. &#8220;In this case, I certainly, for better or worse, had just complete control over the kind of thing I&#8217;m trying to create,&#8221; said LaBute. &#8220;Some people may say, &#8216;Oh, well that was a play,&#8217; or, &#8216;That was boring,&#8217; or whatever, but at least I can tell you that&#8217;s what I intended to do. Less so in the other situation. I think I just had more people to be beholding to.&#8221;<br \/>\n <!-- No winning ad found for zone: word count #6! --><br \/>\n<span class=\"related-single\">Related: Exclusive: Diane Kruger, Ray Nicholson, and Neil Labute Discuss Their Femme Fatale Noir Out of the Blue<\/span><\/p>\n<p>LaBute&#8217;s exactly right \u2014 there&#8217;s really no mistaking <em>House of Darkness<\/em> for anyone else&#8217;s film, a result of &#8220;having more control,&#8221; as he puts it. Over the course of a potential one-night-stand, a man discovers that his hopeful hook-up is hiding something more than just a spooky sister; the film&#8217;s winding conversations, which manage to conceal layers of meaning while maintaining a natural flow, are pure LaBute in style and substance. &#8220;It was a lot of fun to do something that feels like a bad date,&#8221; said LaBute, &#8220;and a date that gets certainly worse than that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"body-img landscape\">\n<div class=\"responsive-img expandable img-article-item\" style=\"padding-bottom:52.5%\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Justin-Long-Gia-Crovatin-and-Kate-Bosworth-sit-in-the-Neil-LaBute-movie-House-of-Darkness.jpg\" data-modal-id=\"single-image-modal\" data-modal-container-id=\"single-image-modal-container\" data-img-caption=\"&quot;Saban Films&quot;\">\n<figure> <picture> <!--[if IE 9]> <video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" sizes=\"750px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Justin-Long-Gia-Crovatin-and-Kate-Bosworth-sit-in-the-Neil-LaBute-movie-House-of-Darkness.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" sizes=\"943px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Justin-Long-Gia-Crovatin-and-Kate-Bosworth-sit-in-the-Neil-LaBute-movie-House-of-Darkness.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" sizes=\"767px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Justin-Long-Gia-Crovatin-and-Kate-Bosworth-sit-in-the-Neil-LaBute-movie-House-of-Darkness.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" sizes=\"480px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Justin-Long-Gia-Crovatin-and-Kate-Bosworth-sit-in-the-Neil-LaBute-movie-House-of-Darkness.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><img width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Justin Long, Gia Crovatin, and Kate Bosworth sit in the Neil LaBute movie House of Darkness\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Justin-Long-Gia-Crovatin-and-Kate-Bosworth-sit-in-the-Neil-LaBute-movie-House-of-Darkness.jpg\"\/> <\/picture><figcaption class=\"body-img-caption\">Saban Films<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Like nearly every LaBute piece, nobody is a traditional protagonist or antagonist, and everyone&#8217;s virtues are outmatched by their capacity for cruelty. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onstageblog.com\/editorials\/2019\/10\/29\/to-produce-or-not-to-produce-neil-labute\">LaBute has been called<\/a> cynical and even misogynistic for his portrayals of toxic people, especially men (which he agrees are &#8220;more relevant now&#8221; in the post-#MeToo era), but really he&#8217;s just doing what all dramatists do \u2014 creating conflict to reflect truth. &#8220;We&#8217;re all capable of extremes, and I think we veer toward extremes in film and television. In theory, we&#8217;re trying to create something that&#8217;s a little larger than life, but it&#8217;s fun,&#8221; explained LaBute.<br \/>\n<!-- Zone: character count repeatable. --><br \/>\n <!-- No winning ad found for zone: word count #7! --><br \/>\n&#8220;Conflict is drama,&#8221; said LaBute of his unlikable characters. &#8220;They&#8217;re fun to write. They&#8217;re fun to watch. A group of nice people sitting around isn&#8217;t that interesting.&#8221; A group of people certainly sit around in <em>House of Darkness<\/em>; they&#8217;re not so nice, but they are pretty interesting. Saban Films will release <em>House of Darkness<\/em> in theaters on September 9, 2022, and on Demand and Digital on September 13, 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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