Julie Morvitz

I thought it was very interesting how the reader went from thinking that one brother was going to die (Navidson) to thinking the other was going to die (Tom).  I wasn’t sure Navidson would die even when Tom had left him in the hallway, though.  I still wasn’t sure he was completely gone even after he had been gone for a few days.  When he emerged, I thought the danger was gone because no one would attempt the dangerous hallway again.  My thoughts were disproven when Tom was suddenly eaten by the house while trying to escape.  When Navidson’s family tried to leave the house, it basically tried to engulf them.  I liked how the house took pieces of the people who tried to explore it by taking bits of their clothing, and then when they tried to escape, it literally tried to swallow them up.  

            I also liked the different opinions on the movie.  Some of them made no sense, and others assumed that Karen was just lonely so she made up this story, which apparently symbolized loneliness.  I also thought it was very funny that Hunter S. Thompson thought Karen had taken drugs before she made this film, because that’s how the story seems to an outsider.

 Discussion Questions

1. Why didn’t Karen tell her viewers that the film was real?

2. Does Navidson plan on joining his family in New York?           

3.  Why does Delial affect Navidson so much?

4. Do you think the house is a portal into another dimension?