ED institutional context -The House of the Devil

Production

• The House of the Devil is a 2009 horror film written, directed, and edited by Ti West, starring Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, and Mary Woronov.
• The film was shot in Connecticut. Taking place in the 1980s, the film was made with 16mm film, giving it a retro stylistic look that matched the decade. it also used some of the 1980's filming techniques.
• The production companys involved where: Constructovision, RingTheJig, , Glass Eye Pix.
• The budget of the film was $900,000 which is sterotypically low because it is a indie horror film and therefore is on a low budget.
• The music in the film was made by Jeff Grace who is not a A lister in the wolrd of music and this lowered the budget of the film. 

Distribution 

• The film was distrubuted by: MPI media group and Dark Sky Films. These are both small distrubution companies which much lower budget that the big six hollyowood studios.
• On the 25th of April 2009 it was released in the tribeca film festival, it was later released on the 30th October 2009.
•  It made $101,215 on the box office of the film.