I'm a generous guy when it comes to slashers - I like the subgenre very much, but bad will always be just bad. This was an example of what happens when you want to make a slasher & while doing that, rehearse every known thing in and about it - rehearse it in a very cheap manner.
"All through the house" belongs among the weaker Christmas-themed horror flicks - let me tell you why: first off, probably the most annoying thing for me was the lighting. Yeah, exactly that very specific thing. It looked like a student's project that got a little money on kickstarter - everything about this movie looked that way, but the lighting was real crappy at times, too "on the nose", in a lot of shots you can feel that guy with a lamp standing behind the camera. Direct overexposure. What else? The acting - the better performance was delivered by the eldest actress (the antagonist), but overall the acting & dialogue was sailing towards the port called "cringe". The story consists of many extremely clichéic classic slasher ingredients & it didn't read quite well, I grasped the full situation about halfway into the movie, but it might have been just stupid script choices that got me baffled. Yes, I can surely give it some points for the gore - that 4.8 rating up there is probably only because of gore. The effects were old-school & all practical, they even tried to make each kill different. However, the choreographed scenes towards the ending were sloppy and ineffective. I also want to mention that this slasher could've been set in any kind of setting, the christmas theme feels very not-essential.
There are some reviews crowned with a high mark, but, people, we can't just give a movie free pass because of 5 minutes worth of nice practical gore, can we? While "All through the house" is disappointing and amateuristic, it did hold a little more potential than that. T'was not used though. Can't possibly objectively rate this higher than 3/10, it would not be fair to many other low budget slashers.
Tingnan pa