Home Sweet Hell: reviews

What the critics say average 3.2 from 19 outlets

• 6.0 The Village VoicePete Vonder Haar Home Sweet Hell is a pleasantly unpleasant dark comedy, one that gives new meaning to "detached and subdivided" in the mass production zone.
• 5.0 Movie NationRoger Moore Obvious and jaw-droppingly bloody, it still gives Heigl her funniest role in years. Read
• 5.0 JoBloJimmyO HOME SWEET HELL is best viewed in the comfort of your own home on late night cable. Read
• 5.0 Movie MezzanineAndy Crump Home Sweet Hell doesn’t deserve a hearty recommendation, but watching Heigl almost makes the movie worth watching on her own. Read
• 5.0 Aisle SeatMike McGranaghan Some scenes march fearlessly into the darkest of dark comedy recesses, while others are played quite broadly, as though trying to let us know that we shouldn't take all this nastiness too seriously. Read
• 5.0 Blu-ray.comBrian Orndorf Heigl and Wilson do their best to salvage a sinking ship, putting in fine performances that embrace ghoulishness director Anthony Burns eventually turns away from. Read
• 3.8 Daily HeraldDann Gire Home Sweet Hell musters too little wit and too few laughs to sustain this humorous autopsy of suburban life. Read
• 3.0 The DissolveKate Erbland Although the film appears to be aiming for pitch-black humor, it’s all so mirthless that the result is genuinely ugly. Read
• 3.0 Los Angeles TimesGary Goldstein Regardless, the result is a muddle of tired themes, bad behaviors and gruesome set pieces. Read
• 3.0 New York TimesBen Kenigsberg While the oafish men come off poorly, the treatment of women as nothing more than schemers and monstrous Martha Stewart clones seems woefully past its expiration date. Read
• 2.5 New York PostSara Stewart It’s high time Katherine Heigl sent up her image as a controlling bitch in heels; too bad her dark comic turn takes place in an otherwise dreadful, misogynistic slog of a film. Read
• 2.5 Roger EbertSheila O'Malley The first 20 minutes of “Home Sweet Hell” are so bleakly unfunny that it reaches an almost existential plane. Questions start arising immediately: Is it satire? Is it black comedy? What is this? Read
• 2.5 Paste MagazineChristine N. Ziemba In the end, Home Sweet Hell is neither an adequate black comedy nor a good slasher film. It’s just hellish. There’s nothing sweet about it. Read
• 2.0 VarietyJustin Chang Indeed, Heigl’s performance as a coolly murderous model housewife is the only real reason to even consider watching “Home Sweet Hell,” an otherwise flailing and risible tale of adultery, extortion and suburban malaise. Read
• 2.0 New York Daily NewsEddie Goldberger A dark comedy that isn't funny and a marriage satire that doesn't break new ground. Read
• 2.0 Common Sense MediaS. Jhoanna Robledo Insipid black comedy about suburban materialism and murder. Read
• 1.6 The A.V. ClubMike D'Angelo Katherine Heigl has exactly one funny moment in the dire black comedy Home Sweet Hell, which is still one more than anybody else has.
• 1.0 The Hollywood ReporterJon Frosch The kind of blithely confident, creatively impoverished dud that leaves you slightly stunned someone greenlit it, the movie has the distinction of feeling like a bad idea from its very first frames. Read
• 1.0 The WrapInkoo Kang A rancid comedy fueled by male entitlement and uxoricidal rage. Read