Emily Skahill

This plot is getting old. At first I was all but jumping out of my seat in terror of what was going to happen. Considering Zampano would always tell us something was coming. Personally, I think it’s much scarier to know something is coming and continually guess what it is, than to actually know what it is and have it be some something stereotypical of a horror movie. Ok, there’s a crazy labyrinth in the house with corridors just appearing. So? You take your family, move out of the house, and far away from that house. But not the Navidson’s of course not, because there would be no story and no supposed film if they got scared and ran away. So the house begins to lash out at them, okay. Move out! ok they finally try but the house decides to try to eat them? it serves them right for being so stupid in the first place! The house was probably built on an Indian burial ground or another cliché area. This makes me wonder if the children know their parents are insane and if they themselves are okay with the excavation of their own house. A few chapters earlier Zampano said the children spent most of their time outside. Is it really just because their parents neglect them? The saddest part for me is that I can identify with Truant, the disgusting raunchy man terrified to breathe. However it isn’t actually Zampano’s writing of the Navidson Record that scares him, it’s Zampano’s life. He was curious about the man’s death, found a book about a film that never existed, and let his imagination take him away. I have a tendency to do this. But even so, my imagination would never take me that far out of reality. i would never go seek out a house that i'm not sure even exists. There is something mentally wrong with every single character and author in House of leaves, isn't there? Everyone had problems growing up why does the house personify them? Will the readers ever find out why the house came to be this way?