Entrancing black comedy directed by Mark S. Waters (adapting Wendy MacLeod's off-Broadway play).Parker Posey delivers a once-in-a-lifetime performance as Jackie-O, a deeply disturbed girl who grew up obssessed with the nearby Kennedy's in McLean, Virginia. When her twin brother Marty, (Josh Hamilton) a college student in New York, comes home for Thanksgiving he brings surprise fiancée, donut-shop worker Lesly (Tori Spelling) with him. Quite a shock for Jackie-O, who has a deep incestuous love for Marty (and visa-versa).
The film's beating heart is the endless (and hilarious) flow of maniacal catty comments Jackie-O directs at her rival. Eventually Lesly is so in need of an ally that she's driven into the bed of socially defective third sibling Anthony (Freddie Prinze Jr.) while her fiancé and his twin sister move closer and closer to performing their old sex-ritual reenactment of JFK's death.
Makes an interesting non-musical companion piece to THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW as both take the Universal Studio OLD DARK HOUSE formula of a couple arriving at a house full of lunatics during a driving storm as a springboard for "who will end up in whose bed?" shenanigans.
The most amazing thing about HOUSE OF YES is that Tori Spelling is perfect; the plainness and dumbness that mark her as an actress add layers of depth to her drab, poor and "not good enough" character. Her eventual assertion of self is a paean to normalcy. And who's more grindingly, heroically normal than Tori Spelling?
