Home Sweet Hell (2015)

Film Overview
"Home Sweet Hell", also known as "North of Hell", is a 2015 American black funny horror movie directed by Anthony Burns and composed by Carlo Allen, Ted Elrick, and Tom Lavagnino. The film's main stars are Katherine Heigl and Patrick Wilson, who are joined by an encouraging cast including Kevin McKidd and Jordana Brewster.

Plot
The story focuses on Don Champagne (Patrick Wilson), a successful businessman who runs a furniture shop. He's wed to an apparently perfect woman, his spouse Mona (Katherine Heigl), whose obsessive-compulsive behavior and control over every aspect of their lives appears initially as committed love. As the plot unfolds, it emerges that Mona's seemingly perfect exterior conceals a psychotic and vicious interior.

When Don yields to the charms of his new employee Dusty (Jordana Brewster), the two start having an affair. The adultery makes complex when Dusty claims to be pregnant with Don's infant and desires him to leave Mona to be with her. Faced with this predicament, Don confesses to Mona, hoping for a tranquil resolution.

The Dark Turn
However, Mona - obsessed with keeping her perfect life - takes matters into her own hands and things take a dark and violent turn. Rather of solving things with Dusty, Mona chooses to eliminate her, making it appear as if Dusty was a trespasser. When Dusty is out of the picture, she blackmails Don into assisting her cover up the murder, further complicating the situation.

The Downfall
Matters get murkier when Dusty's partner Murphy (James Belushi) comes trying to find her. Murphy, believing that Don and Mona are taking advantage of Dusty's injustice, decides to blackmail them. Set off by the danger, Mona winds up killing Murphy also. The series of murders gradually start to unravel their ideal image in the society as remains begin appearing and questions develop.

The Climax
In a climactic surface, Mona attempts to eliminate Don when the authorities start closing in on them. Nevertheless, Don endures the hit, recovers, and collects the guts to turn the tables on Mona. In the final act, Mona ends up dying in a cops shootout and Don gets away scot-free.

He blames the murders on Mona and uses this experience as a turning point, pledging to become a much better man and daddy to his children. Unfortunately, his liberty is short-lived when it is revealed that Dusty was not really pregnant, stimulating a hint of his previous coming back to haunt him.

Conclusion
The film "Home Sweet Hell" provides an exhilarating study of fixation, deceit, and the need for control while packaging it nicely in black funny. Making use of dark humor and chilling scary, the film plunges into the abyss of a sociopathic personality driven past the edge.

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