I never heard anyone speak about "House of Voices" before. I never heard any reviews and had absolutely no idea as to what this movie was about. All I knew about the film was that it was "ghostly." I watched,I listened,and wondered where the movie was trying to carry the audience. The pace of the film allowed me to position myself in the characters shoes.I could only imagine the sadness and pain that this character had to deal with. My imagination grew eerie,gloomy,and sad,(magnified by the location, score, and color scheme of the film). As this film slowly moved on,the film began taking me from my existence to places I couldn't have dreamed of.By the end of the film I felt cold,confused,and sad.This film did a lot for me emotionally. As an intellect, this film gave me a natural high, jerked my mind around a bit,this film was disturbing, I can't explain why I like this film so much!I gave this film a 10!

The film delivers for it's intent. Never was it billed as a Not to be a jump and scare ghost story, nor violently bloody. it nevertheless does have all of the ghost story premises intact, a large vacant orphanage secured away in the french alps, plenty of long corridors and winding staircases, and hidden rooms, this film is shot beautifully, and I really liked Joe LoDuca's score (LoDuca having worked with Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell and Rob Tapert on the Evil Dead films and the Xena and Hercules TV shows) The film is what it is, a nice creepy and atmospheric film to watch on a Sunday afternoon drinking a cup of coffee, and the lead actress Virgine Ledoyn is really nice on the eyes. OK, maybe that's why I gave it a 7 out of 10, but the film's subject matter of missing and/or "scary children" along with the ***SPOILER ALERT*** hidden pregnancy of the lead character, really enhances the viewers investment. Runs a little too long, but as I said, the cinematography is exquisite, so the time passes pleasantly

I was eager to watch House of Voices, the first movie from the man who brought us the best horror movie ever made- Martyrs. But this movie is a failure, not so much for Pascal Laugier as a director, more so as a writer.In House of Voices, the lovely Virginie Ledoyen, plays Anna, a girl with a troubled past and who is pregnant, and who arrives to work at an orphanage as part of the custodian team. One of the orphans there warns her of strange children. Soon, all the kids are taken somewhere and only Anna, a Romanian woman- the head custodian, and an older teen orphan with mental problems stay behind.The house doesn't feature a whole lot of voices, but something is going on as we learn in he intro. The communal bath has a giant mirror and something goes on behind it. Anna is pregnant but at times appears to want to put an end to the pregnancy. She investigates the place further and finds pictures and files of children. The mental girl also whispers of children, while the woman tries to steer them away from all that.Eventually Anna, too, sees something behind he mirror, brakes it and craws to the space behind it, and further goes through a long shaft that will take her to some kind of a hospital facility were she will encounter her fears.House of Voice is very different from Martyrs. It has almost no violence, almost no gore, very little dialog. For the first hour, nothing particularly interesting happens as Anna walks through hallways endlessly and discovers very little. However, some elements from Martyrs are prefigured here. The movie looks good, has an interesting tone to it, but is very boring and slow for the most part. It is well directed, but in post-production Laugier dropped the ball. It's hard to believe he was satisfied with the cut provided by the editor. As it turns out, the most important scenes with dialog and that provide story ended up in the deleted scenes section. Every single one of them should have been included in the movie, while there are plenty of pointless scenes that should have been edited out.Also more interesting than the movie itself is the making-off featurette where the writer/director tells us more of what he had in mind. Unfortunately, it doesn't really come out well in the movie, again mostly because key scenes were edited out. But I also think that in the end, there simply wasn't a whole lot there in terms of a story to begin with. There is no twist, no major revelation, even in terms of meaning there isn't much there. You're really left to your own devices to make something out of the story.Fortunately, between this movie and Martyrs, Laugier figured out how convey his intention and the editor learned how to edit a film without butchering the story. It's not surprising that Martyrs and House of Voices where written and directed by the same person, but that they were edited by the same guy.

I thought Martyrs was a hugely over-hyped nonevent ... Just what people say it isn't ... But it is just torture porn ... This however is a magical, visually stunning piece of cinema ... Just because it doesn't have an obvious linear narrative and make everything obvious for the slower among us it seems to have been ripped to pieces by the critics out there I have to admit one image nearly ruined it for me and I wish those contact lenses weren't there and she had worn a dress in that scene and played it down rather than iconically ... That would have made it an 8 out of ten rather than a 7.5 ... But I really loved it Hopefully the director will develop this side of his imagination rather than feeling the need to throw loads of boring bloody torture porn at us, like he was obviously forced into with Martyrs... Thats just the latest little gore movie for the youngsters to sit through and think they are big ... This film is for those that demand a bit more in a film