House of Spoils is too distracted by its own choices to make any commentary about consumer culture. The finale leaves a laughably bad aftertaste.

| Dec 19, 2024

"There are unlimited ways to introduce fear into cinematic stories, but unfortunately House of Spoils avoids pretty much all of them"

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 20, 2024

It is exciting while it goes along, but that ending was so off-the-wall that I was left confused, frankly.

| Nov 3, 2024

The haunted restaurant horror tosses plenty into the pot, but the half-developed flavors rest uneasily on the palate.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 25, 2024

Neither the script nor direction from film-makers Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy tease out the increasingly preposterous plot with much finesse or intrigue, and DeBose delivers a jarring, overblown performance.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2024

The film takes a surefire recipe of horror and then never turns on the stove, leaving all its establishment of squirm-inducing food rot and infestation to just be forgotten until there’s nothing left but the smell.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 17, 2024

House of Spoils wastes a solid premise by not sticking the landing, but it still benefits from having a talented lead take us through this horror story.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 15, 2024

If the main character does not have a name, it is a bad sign, but most people will be so focused on DeBose that they may not notice that she plays an underdeveloped protagonist who only stands out when she adopts others’ styles.

| Oct 14, 2024

Blumhouse’s dark fairy tale is suitably unsettling, but needs more time to simmer.

| Oct 14, 2024

There's plenty of creepy vibes in the first half of House of Spoils, but it quickly deviates from its somewhat interesting premise.

| Oct 9, 2024

House of Spoils tries to balance the tension of supernatural horror with the internal drama of a protagonist in a high-pressure culinary setting, but it never rises above the predictable.

| Original Score: C | Oct 8, 2024

It never gets into the delicious weird story it threatens us with in its appetizing premise.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 7, 2024

Whether you lay the tonal issues on Blumhouse, the directors, or the performers does not matter. House of Spoils does not work by the ideas it’s trying to convey.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Oct 7, 2024

It may not live up to the horror genre’s best movies, but it has an obvious spirit that kept me from looking away. 

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 7, 2024

In its final act, House of Spoils changes both in tone and texture, as it embraces the abstractness at its core with confidence that it was previously withholding. But in doing so, it becomes an acquired taste.

| Oct 6, 2024

Unfortunately, where The Menu served a sharp, clever, and riveting entrée, House of Spoils presents a dull, rudimentary, and underwhelming appetizer.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 5, 2024

The dish Spoils serves us looks good and is delivered with confidence, but upon tasting it, we ultimately found it dissatisfying.

| Oct 5, 2024

House of Spoils should mainly be recommended for bringing an unusual spectral essence to a dish you might otherwise turn down. You won’t want seconds, but it’s worth the taste test even picked for parts.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 4, 2024

Interesting for how it links its horror components with the tension and pressures of being a chef. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 4, 2024

House of Spoils largely fails to serve up the horror bonafides its rank-and-file audience member will no doubt expect, while simultaneously being stripped of any real commentary on other topics such as fine dining, feminism or workplace power structure.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 4, 2024