Brooke has started a new relationship with a wonderful man named Judd, who has taken an especial liking to Brooke's young son Dylan. As Brooke continues to recover from the loss of her first husband, Greg, she and Dylan accompany Judd on a trip to his mother's dilapidated home in the country. Welcome to Red Creek, Brooke!

The visit to the unkempt home turns into a nightmare with deep and dark secrets from the past. Of course, Judd turns out to be a liar about his family background. A domestic drama finally morphs into an "Omen"-like film when we see the birth certificate of young Dylan and learn that his birth date is 06-06-06. Lucky Brooke! She has just learned that when she rose from her birthing bed, she had delivered the latest incarnation of the devil!

The filmmakers padded the story with the long and disgusting stretch in the slovenly mother's home in Red Creek. How can people live this way!!!??? Brooke's skills in photography pay off when she goes to work in the dark room and learns that he had a brother named Michael and other secrets of Judd's past.

A ritual sacrifice scene is the order of the day for the climax. It will be up to the young Dylan to begin to exercise his formidable powers in which he will confound the police, sever Judd's carotid artery, and demonstrate his allegiance to the powers of darkness.

I tried to like this film I really did. But unfortunately there was just absolutely nothing there, it was a film that had absolutely no content, it was an empty suit of a cinematic experience. The story that was so paper thin, and nothing in the way of frights, nothing in the way of intrigue, and the worst possible ending.

Avoid this film like you would the bubonic plague.

Right, well I hadn't even heard about this 2018 horror movie titled "House of Darkness: New Blood" before now in 2020 when I was given the chance to sit down and watch it. And of course I did sit down to watch it, even without knowing what the movie was about. It was a horror movie, that was essentially all that was needed to persuade me to watch it.

Turns out that "House of Darkness: New Blood" from writer and director Patrick DeLuca wasn't really an overly interesting or impressive movie. But I will say that the movie definitely had a good atmosphere to it, but ultimately and overall the movie just failed to impress and be a good horror movie.

Sure, I believe there is an audience out there for a movie such as this. However, I just wasn't part of that target audience. I like a horror movie to have more of a punch and more of an interesting story. Throughout the course of the entire movie here, I sat waiting for something interesting to start happening and for the movie to pick up and become worthwhile watching. That just never happened.

The acting performances in the movie were adequate. And I will say that Kate Stone and Hilary Momberger-Powers definitely performed well and carried the movie with their performances. Just a shame that the movie was so held back by a lack of proper storyline and script.

The movie was fully devoid of anything even remotely scary. And if you enjoy a horror movie that revolves around a cult, then there are far, far better movies readily available.

My rating of "House of Darkness: New Blood" lands on a generous three out of ten stars, mostly because of the production value and the performances of Kate Stone and Hilary Momberger-Powers.