The Reel Rejects - A HAUNTED HOUSE (2013) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

Episode Date: December 4, 2024

MARLON WAYANS RETURNS TO PARODY TERRITORY!! Visit https://huel.com/rejects to get 15% off your order! A Haunted House Full Movie Reaction Watch Along:  https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thereelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/thereelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Now that they've seen the first FIVE Paranormal Activity Flicks (not to mention Tara's recent Scary Movie Marathon), Andrew Gordon & Tara Erickson are BACK to give their FIRST TIME Reaction, Commentary, Analysis, Breakdown, & Full Movie Spoiler Review for the spoof comedy that marked Marlon Wayans' return to Parody with his Sendup of Paranormal Activity & Found Footage Movies! As Malcolm and Kisha move into their dream home, they learn that a demon also resides there and are forced to consult psychics, priests, & ghost hunters in order to save Kisha from a dark family secret... A Haunted House stars Marlon Wayans (Scary Movie 2, Requiem for a Dream), Essence Atkins (How High, House of Payne, Dance Flick), David Koechner (Anchorman:The Legend of Ron Burgundy, The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show), Dave Sheridan (Scary Movie, The Devil's Rejects), Nick Swardson (Grandma's Boy, Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star), Alanna Ubach (Coco, The Brady Bunch Movie, Euphoria), Andy Daly (Semi-Pro, She's Out of My League), J.B. Smoove (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Spider-Man: Far From Home), Cedric The Entertainer (Barbershop, Be Cool), & MORE!! Andrew & Tara REACT to all the Funniest Scenes & Most Hilarious Moments including Ray Ray, Ignoring the Ghost, Chip the Psychic, Priest Funny Scene, That Demon is a Freak, Special Delivery, Ghost Attack, Exorcism & Beyond!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And we'll ignore that. While you're looking that up, I thought this was hysterical. I love how it plays off, well, references, obviously, all the other films. Well, not all of them, but definitely at least, I felt like it referenced the first and the third one the most, you know, with the oscillator in 1988, some of the other stuff, and then with the first and then we got the cabinets from the second one.

So I loved all the references, but I love how it plays off the tropes like in such a funny way where when like some of the things, maybe we didn't vocalize out loud or maybe we talked about in the review were like, why didn't they do this or why did they do this or is this what we were thinking here and I like how they play off of those

things. It was just, it was done just in a funny but in a satirical way too and i just i thought it was hysterical yeah i love the humor in this movie too what did you think was like the funniest part for you um when cedric there was one line he said that that was probably my favorite just now i can't remember uh he's like something something wrong with that bitch or something oh he goes there's there's something there's not something right he's like this is this isn't right in here or something like that so i don't know one of his lines This is one of my favorite lines in the movie, if not my favorite. And I love how all these characters, too.

And again, in a movie like this, it works when the humor is like this. It's parrity. I love how all these characters for the most part are just one-note characters. They're not trying to, because, again, in a film like this, you don't look for it. I'm curious about the character development and the story. No, God, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I love in these type of films when it's just one note and we stick to it.

Like, you got the psychic by Nick Swartson, who's so funny. He's just trying to get with Malcolm the whole time. Totally. And then again, the foreshadowing is hysterical, have you ever been with a man? And he keeps asking him that. And then Tony, banged him. Yeah. And then he's like, I can sense something different with you.

So there was like that kind of humor that struck me in a hysterical way. But also, too, I like how this film, last thing I want to get the point across and then I want to hear your thoughts. I like how this film also tackled like on a more serious manner, like, when you move in with someone, like how everything does kind of change. Yeah, it does. So like in a more serious sense,

even though it was played more for laughs, I thought the film actually did tackle that. I don't know in a serious way, but it still like came off that way in terms of like, yeah, things do change and like your whole life gets kind of flipped upside down. It can be sometimes in a negative,

but also it can be for a positive. I mean, but that's part of like, you know, living with someone and falling in love. It's about sacrifice and all that. So, I mean,

I'm not saying, you know, a dog should get. hit or any of that stuff. But I mean, of course. Never. But the whole point is, I like that the whole theme of change, you know, when someone moves in. Like, it's not changed for the better, but it's, it's just more to elevate and, you know, help you grow as a human being. Yeah, it's kind of funny how they end up, like, juicing it at the end and he lasts longer. And I'm like, is it because, like, Toby came into their lives and now, like, he can actually perform?

Because remember when he's like, I tried Viagra, I tried this, you know, I've tried the extends. I thought that was funny. Went through a lot of pain. Yeah. I thought that him in the bathtub trying to get rid of herpes as though he's just like scrubbing it and oh, it fizzles. I was like, this is so ridiculous, but for some reason that made me cackle. Yeah, I mean, this is a fun movie. I feel like these movies particularly, because you guys have seen me watching scary movie, and this has a scary movie S to it, is that it's not, it, I, like, it, it's, like, it, what you were saying, it's not like there's a lot of character development. I'm not paying attention to it because it's like amazing filmmaking. But what I will give this credit for is that

it does look like the paranormal activity movies. They did a fabulous job with the special effects. That's the thing about a scary movie and this, a haunted house, is that they do a really good job of making it look like the movies that they're parroting, which I very much appreciate. They don't, they don't take, they don't make it look crappy, right? Because they could take a big cut in the budget to make it not look as good. They don't do that. They make it look as good, which is the part of it that I think I really appreciate. That's the filmmaking aspect of this movie that I like.

And yes, it's like, I'm like, oh, yeah, you know, it's funny. I like that they have these characters, which I assume is, was a lot of it was improv, which they have a lot of improvisers in here, which I love. I don't know about his wife. I haven't seen her improvised, but the other two I have at Second City a few times. Anyway, I think that this is a fun, like, parody blueprint. And I think because of the paranormal activity movies were so popular

and obviously Exorcist, those are two fun ones. And maybe some other Easter eggs that I didn't see. But I did think, like, at the end, to have her speak, like how the little girl speaks and the Exorcist is a little bit wild. and they did the wall thing, which I liked. It's all the special effects that I mostly with these movies because I don't really, these aren't movies that hit me where I'm like, oh my God, I watch this over and over.

There's something with me specifically and parody movies and like comedies that are in this vein that don't like totally hit me. And maybe it's because I'm here and I'm reacting. So I feel like, oh, I get it. That's a joke. So maybe I feel like I might have. to laugh versus if I was at home maybe I wouldn't and I would just I would just watch it and sometimes be like I get it that's funny um I don't know I like I've been trying to figure it out

because everyone loves a scary movie and everyone loves it seems like I mean this has a really high rating on to house and I do think that it is fun and funny like I get all the jokes it's written well there's just something about it for me that I'm not like oh my God I love it so much I want to watch it again, and I think it's like the funniest movie I've ever seen. I don't feel that way about it, but I do appreciate the special effects a lot, and I think it's just the vein of the comedy may not be up my alley. Don't insult Tony like that. Don't insult Tony like that, Tara.

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he was so good he's the funny and he was only in the movie like less than 10 to 15 minutes but what I loved about his character um you know is the priest who's supposed to perform the exorcism because anytime we've seen that like when we excuse me when we watch the exorcist yeah we saw from what I can remember

and Tara you remind me I know it's been a while since we watched that movie and obviously you guys mistake me or correct me if I'm mistaken. I remember though when we watched that movie like that that priest like he did he was dealing with some like things in his past and some other stuff but he was very like courageous and he was very brave. I remember when he was going into that room when he had to perform that exorcism. And with Cetric the entertainer like I felt like he was like, oh you should just get

out of here. Something in here ain't right. But I like that he's like he's kind of like us the audience and again in a spoof type of movie. I think it's just so appropriate and I loved it. I I'm too glad that you brought him up because he was my favorite part. Oh, he was hysterical. Yeah, he's so funny. I love Cedric. Yeah, and then also, too, you got the camera guys who then became the ghost guys. Yeah.

Again, playing the stereotype against black guys, like, with the cornbread comment, and then, like, you don't own this house, right? And then some of the other crap. And then you got those other two, the neighbors and the friends, rather, or whatever, clearly swingers before we saw them. Totally. I mean, some hysterical stuff in there. I'm just trying to think what other characters that just really stood out. I think that's pretty much all the characters.

I think that's all the characters. Not that many. And I got to say, too, I know we talked about it during the reaction really quick before you get to the trivia. I freaking, I hope it's in there, but I loved that. I mean, obviously, I haven't seen Pulp Fiction. So I don't know. I didn't recognize that line.

I'm sure most of you're like, how didn't Andrew know that Pulp Fiction? I haven't seen it, which I mentioned during the reaction. Andrew doesn't know all the line. Yeah, but when he said snakes on a plane, I was like, oh my God, I love that this guy is referencing snakes on a plane because he's, those are my favorite types of self, of Easter eggs or references when someone, or meta jokes, when someone is in something and then they're mentioning it. I just think that's hysterical. Yeah, yeah. I didn't know that he was in that. I don't know if I've, have you seen snakes on a plane or not?

I don't know. That might make great reaction. Ooh, guys. If it's like, if it's like this one, I've had a lot. lot, too many parody movies. No, no. Snakes on a plane is not a parody movie. It's snakes on a plane and they got to survive through the plane with snakes on a plane.

Okay. Yeah, I think that'd make a great reaction. Maybe if Roxy hasn't seen it, we get a Sheeject's reaction. Yeah, maybe. We'll have to find someone. But if you do react to it, you'll recognize the camera or ghost guy. Like, oh, he's the one who made the joke about his own movie. Right, that he's the pilot.

I'll remember that. So, yeah, yeah, because that movie came out, I believe, in 2006. and I think this one's like 2013, so this is seven years later, so it makes sense he would make that reference now. Love it. Yeah, let's get into some... Let's do some trivia. Pierre Daniel, who had a brief role in the film,

sued Marlon Wayans for racial harassment. Wait, who sued him? This Pierre Daniel. This was after Wayans posted a side-by-side photo comparing him to Cleveland Brown from Family Guy. The case was thrown out after the judge pointed out Daniel does, in fact, look like Cleveland Brown. Can you click on the actor so I can just see who...

They're not allowing me to highlight Pierre Daniel, but let me do it after I get through a few. You guys can look him up. I assume when it says, I mean, I don't watch too much a family guy, but who does Cleveland Brown look like? I didn't really watch much family guy either. Neither.

I think I know who Cleveland Brown is, though. Does he wear glasses? Because I was like, is he referring to? No, that's Peter, I think. Okay. I'm just going to do it now because we might forget. Pierre, Daniel. Do you think he's one of the four guys that came in? Oh, it's, it is the gay guy. It's the, it's the guy who tries to sleep with him. No, no, no, no. That's Nick Swartson.

Daniel Pierre. No, no, no. Here, you keep reading the trivia. I'll look it up. Continue. Okay. Well, I'm going to have to go back now. Uh, da, but da, da, oh, it went away. There it is. Okay. At around 32 minutes in one of the scenes when Malcolm is taking notes, Marlon Wayne breaks character and talks about how bad the scary movie franchise has gotten after the second one.

Did you hear that line in the movie? I did not. I didn't hear that line. No, I didn't hear it at all. I would have laughed. You're on. Wyatt's imaginary friend is named Tony, just like Danny's imaginary friend in the Shining 1980. Yeah, but we think they're taking it.

from Toby in Tony was also the name of Keisha's childhood imaginary friend as seen through a home movie in the first movie. Wait, why are they? Are you on a haunted house? I'm in the first one. You're on a haunted house too. Yeah, there's not that many. No, you're on the second movie. Okay. Hold on guys. It's like something sound, these are sounding like different things. Hey, haunted. It's like something is sounding off. right now. It was like, did we hear the

scary movie two thing? I was like, I don't remember hearing that. Okay. It was like I knew something was off. I'm like going crazy. Okay.

All right. This movie's release date January 11, 2013 was the original restate for scary movie five before the latter movie moved to the 2013. Martin Wains,

who wrote and stars in a haunted house was one of the creators of scary movie franchise. We already know that. Yep. The character of Dan,

the security man, talks about the movie, Snakes on a plane. He was a supporting role in that movie, which Andrew just talked about. Despite being panned by the critics, the film nevertheless took over 60 million at the box office from a budget of guests. I'm going to go 20 million?

2.5. Damn, this movie is that 2.5 mil? Yep, they did it for cheap. But if you think about it, it's only one location. I bet the wayans didn't take much of a... I was going to say from the actors. And the actors aren't getting... It's only a one-day day...

And some of the visual effects, I just, I figured like at least 10, 15, 20s where my mind went. But, um, wow. Nick Swartson was nominated for Golden Raspberry for the worst supporting actor for his work in this film. I don't agree. What, what did, it, it's a spoof film. Like, come on. He was, he was fine. Do you think he deserved a Razzie award?

That's funny. Would you agree with that, honestly? No. He's like, but. He's fun. He's hysterical in this. I think he was funny. Marlon Wayne's in essence, Atkins also appeared in Darcy.

Flick. There is not, uh, this also boasts a lowly 9% rot tomatoes. This got a nine, what movie did And there's no spoiler trivia in this. That's literally all the trivia. It's not good for this movie. My whole thing would be this for the critics. What movie did you think you were walking into would be my question. You know what I'm again, is this an Academy Award? Of course not. It's not trying to be. That's why when I was telling you guys, this movie is not up my alley, but I recognize it for what it is and it did a good job. for being a parody spoof film, they do a really good job of making fun of paranormal activity,

especially when it comes to the special effects. They did a great job. Yeah. And they took a lot of, they played with a lot of it and with the Exorcist as well. Wow. Okay. So, yeah, this movie got a 10% on Ryan Tomatoa, and the audience gave it a 51%. Wow, I expect

a little higher than that. Interesting. Yeah. Well, um, yeah. So that's that's all I got to say for that. All right. Well, guys, what did you think of a haunted house? Would you like Taryn myself to do a haunted house too, if you would? Let us know in the comments below.

Is there anything else we missed? Or let us know what else you'd want us to do. Yeah, just in general. I'd love to do too. I know you would. Yeah, we can do too. No, I was just saying I'd love to do some Christmas horror films. I know you and Roxy usually handle the horror films on the town.

I would love to do a Christmas horror. If there's any Christmas horror, whether it's Gremlin's one or. Let us know. I haven't seen those. Yeah, I have not seen either. But if there's anything you can think of that you guys would like us to see or any other members of the channel, please let us know. If you're still with us at this point, we appreciate it. Thank you so much.

Love you. Take care. Make sure there are no ghosts in your bedrooms. And we shall see you next time. Later.