The Glass House 2001

Critics score:
21 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: There's no tippy-toeing in The Glass House, but you will still find yourself holding your breath. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Like a recurring nightmare, The Glass House is something that gets your motor racing briefly, but which you've seen all too often. Read more

Ebert & Roeper: Read more

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: A workmanlike thriller that works. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: A thriller that does not mean to be comical but that inspires more howls of laughter than shivers of dread. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: The sort of thriller in which you can immediately tell, at any character's appearance, whether he'll live to see the final credits. Read more

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: So laughably awful that it begs to have stones thrown at it; it's a wonder it got made at all. Read more

Paul Tatara, CNN.com: One look at Terry and Erin's home, and you can sense director Daniel Sackheim gearing up for a tsunami of hogwash. Read more

Ty Burr, Entertainment Weekly: We're left with a cat-and-mouse game between girl and murderous faux-dad that's simply boilerplate. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Just about everything a psychological thriller might want except a credible character, a believable motive and a scintilla of thrills. Read more

Louis B. Parks, Houston Chronicle: Like Ruby, The Glass House is in conflict with itself. It's confused about what kind of film it wants to be. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The film has two consistent attributes: stupidity and predictability. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The events unfold as a series of ominous portents, real and false alarms, and music stingers on the soundtrack. Read more

Charles Taylor, Salon.com: Wesley Strick, the screenwriter, is my hero. I admire anyone who's figured out how to do as little work as he does and still make a good living. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: Hollywood delivers new junk every week, but this is junk with a vindictive, sadistic edge. Read more

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Claudia Puig, USA Today: Sackheim ... pulls off a surprisingly scary film. Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: There's nothing in genredom quite so unhinged as the badly made psycho-thriller, and long before it's over, The Glass House collapses from wretched design and execution. Read more