Hell Is Where The Home Is  ★★½

THE makers of Hell Is Where The Home Is (also known as Trespassers) accomplish a  fair bit with what was undoubtedly a modest budget.

While it’s set in a single location, a home in a suburb on the edge of the Mojave desert, this horror film has an interesting colour palette and is reasonably well edited and shot.

While the story isn’t sustained throughout, it starts well and holds the interest until almost the third act.

It starts with the murders of a couple at the home for an unexplained reason and then joins two other couples a day or so later when they arrive to spend a weekend at the air bnb.

The women and one of the men are friends but the fourth person is a new boyfriend who quickly reveals himself to be an offensive jerk.

As tensions rise they are visited by a strange woman who asks to use their phone, claiming her car has broken down. The woman overstays her welcome and, during a physical altercation, somebody is killed.

While the remaining group are trying to figure out what to do, the police arrive to investigate and are quickly followed by several masked and machete-wielding intruders after a photograph.

The acting is reasonable and there is some decent violence, but the final act becomes familiar gore territory and there are some awful music choices.