“Hostage House” (** out of four) was an overly generic suspense thriller about a realtor (Jennifer Taylor) and her daughter (Julia Terranova) who are held hostage by a pair of hard-edged criminals (Emily Sweet and Justin C. Schilling) during an open house and have to think fast to stay alive and outsmart them and make it through the night alive. Fairly economical and compact direction and decent acting can’t make this more than a run-of-the-mill home invasion thriller. After “Desperate Hours”, “Panic Room”, “The Purge”, and too many other movies like these over the years, maybe it’s best to give this genre a rest before the audience feels held hostage.