There's Someone Inside Your House (film)

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There's Someone Inside Your House
A Netflix poster featuring the face of a worried teenager. Under them is a house located within a cornfield and the film's title, "There's Someone Inside Your House". One of the house's windows is lit and a cloaked person can be seen inside.
Promotional release poster
Directed byPatrick Brice
Screenplay byHenry Gayden
Based onThere's Someone Inside Your House
by Stephanie Perkins
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyJeff Cutter
Edited byMichel Aller
Music byZachary Dawes
Production
companies
Distributed byNetflix
Release date
  • September 23, 2021 (2021-09-23) (Fantastic Fest)
  • October 6, 2021 (2021-10-06) (United States)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

There's Someone Inside Your House is a 2021 American slasher film directed by Patrick Brice and written by Henry Gayden. It is an adaptation of the 2017 novel of the same name by Stephanie Perkins and stars Sydney Park, Théodore Pellerin, Asjha Cooper, Jesse LaTourette, and Diego Josef. The plot follows Makani Young (Park), a senior transfer student from Hawaii who later finds herself in the center of gruesome murder cases in her newly acquainted town of Osborne, Nebraska.

There's Someone Inside Your House was announced in March 2018, with Netflix announcing Shawn Levy and James Wan would produce through their respective production banners Atomic Monster and 21 Laps. Principal photography took place the following year in Vancouver with cinematographer Jeff Cutter; additional filming concluded in August 2020. During post-production, editing was completed by Michel Aller and the musical score was composed by Zachary Dawes.

There's Someone Inside Your House premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 23, 2021, and was released on Netflix on October 6.

Plot[]

The movie starts with a football player named Jackson Pace walking into his residence. He sets an alarm for the evening and takes a nap, but senses that someone has snuck into his home. When he begins to call 911, he discovers that his photographs have been glued to the walls of the house. These photos were taken on the night when Jackson had beaten another student at his school, Caleb, as part of a haze, who ended up having a fractured jaw and other serious injuries. Jackson gets stabbed to death in his closet by someone wearing a mask resembling Jackson’s own face. The man then exposes the film of Caleb’s assault to the entire school.

People believe that Caleb was beaten up because he was gay and that he hired a killer because he was at the football game at the time of the tragedy. We are introduced to a group of friends, Makani, Alex, Zach, Darby and Rodrigo. They let Caleb sit with them at lunch after he is shunned by the rest of the school. The school's student council president, Katie, reads aloud one of her essays, and says that there will be a memorial at a church. The friends notice a student, Ollie, looking at them, which scares them. Unbeknownst to them, Ollie is Makani's ex.

Zach has his car graffitied as most people hate him because of his rich land developer father. At the church, while Katie is setting up, someone begins to play a racist and homophobic podcast that she recorded. She is confronted by the killer, who is wearing a mask of her face. The townspeople arrive and find Katie's corpse hanging from the rafter.

Makani, who lives with her sleepwalking grandmother, has flashbacks of a burning fire and screaming. She googles her name and finds nothing, but when she googles "Makani Sun-Woo", she finds articles about her being arrested. The next day, the entire school is being interviewed at the police station by the sheriff, who is Ollie's older brother. Zach’s father releases Zach, much to his anger over being spoiled. Sheriff Larsson interviews the school and after asking Ollie if he knew who took his taser, lets Makani go.

Ollie drives Makani home and they begin to have sex in the car, but they are interrupted by a group of people running to Zach's house, as he is holding a party. At the party, everyone is telling each other their secrets, such as Alex saying she once ran over a hitchhiker by accident. Alex is weirded out by Ollie watching and makes him leave, not knowing about his relationship with Makani. Zach reveals that his father owns lots of Nazi memorabilia, most of which Zach converted into bongs. The partygoers get high, while Rodrigo takes fentanyl, unbeknownst to the rest of the people. Alex and Rodrigo kiss in a closet and it is implied that they had sex. Rodrigo finds a trail of pills leading to his bottle, before everyone gets text messages about his addiction. The lights go out and the killer, wearing a mask of Rodrigo, kills him.

The next day, most of the school, including Alex, believes that Ollie is the murderer. Ollie takes Makani to get a view of the ocean, but after she finds a taser gun in his car, she questions him and leaves. That night at her house, she awakens to find her front door open her phone gone and her living room plastered of pictures of a burn victim. The killer, now wearing a mask of Makani's face, breaks the window and tries to kill her, but her friends arrive. Makani tells her friends the truth: during a hazing by her varsity teammates, she and the other haze victims were tortured and forced to get drunk. In a drunken state, Makani pushed one of her friends her into a bonfire, badly burning her. She says that she is now sure Ollie is the killer and the police place him under arrest.

The next day, Zach’s father holds a corn maze next to the school. Makani gets a message from Darby that Ollie has been released, and spots him in his car. Makani runs inside the school and runs into Caleb, who is then stabbed by the killer, who then places the knife into Makani's hands. Ollie and Makani's friends arrive and manage to save Caleb's life, before Makani realizes that the killer is headed for the corn maze. The killer sets fire to the maze with the football team inside, so they drive into the flames to help the football players escape.

Ollie and Makani confront the killer, who reveals himself to be Zach and kills his father. Ollie tries to shoot Zach with the taser gun but he impales him with his sword. Zach monologues to Makani saying that he is going to frame all the murders on her, and is going to kill her, as in self-defense. But while Ollie distracts him, Makani stabs him to death before taking a wounded Ollie out of the fire.

Cast[]

  • Sydney Park as Makani Young
  • Théodore Pellerin as Oliver "Ollie" Larsson
  • Asjha Cooper as Alexandra Crisp
  • Jesse LaTourette as Darby
  • Diego Josef as Rodrigo Doran
  • Dale Whibley as Zachariah "Zach" Sandford
  • Burkely Duffield as Caleb Greeley
  • Sarah Dugdale as Katie Koons
  • Markian Tarasiuk as Jackson Pace
  • Zane Clifford as Macon Bewley
  • William Edward as Randall Brice
  • Emilija Baranac as Hailey Holcomb
  • Ivy Matheson as Kayla
  • Kayla Heller as Olivia Grace
  • Andrew Dunbar as Deputy Chris Larsson[1]
  • Tedra Rogers as Abigail
  • Tally Rodin as Jasmine
  • Anthony Timpano as Witt
  • Brittany Hobson as Briana
  • William MacDonald as Skipper Sandford
  • Jade Falcon as Stacy Pritchett
  • David Lewis as Mr. Pace

Production[]

Producers Shawn Levy and James Wan

There's Someone Inside Your House is an adaptation of the 2017 novel of the same name by Stephanie Perkins. The feature film adapted by Henry Gayden was announced in March 2018 when Deadline Hollywood revealed Netflix had partnered with Shawn Levy and James Wan to produce it under their Atomic Monster and 21 Laps companies, respectively.[2] At the time of its announcement, the film was described as an amalgamation of genre films in the vein of quintessential slasher films such as Friday the 13th and Scream as well as the coming-of-age dramas such as John Hughes' The Breakfast Club and George Lucas' American Graffiti.[2][3] Additional producers of the film include Dan Cohen and Michael Clear.[4]

In March 2019, it was announced that Patrick Brice would direct the film from a screenplay by Henry Gayden.[5][6][7] In August 2019, Sydney Park, Théodore Pellerin, Asjha Cooper, Dale Whibley, Jesse LaTourette, Burkely Duffield, Diego Josef, Zane Clifford and Sarah Dugdale joined the cast of the film.[8][9][10][11] Principal photography began in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on August 22, 2019, and ended on October 12, 2019.[12][13][14] Additional photography for the film concluded on August 23, 2020.[15] Michel Aller served as the primary editor for the film.[16] Zachary Dawes composed the score for the film.[17]

Release[]

The film premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 23, 2021.[18][19] The film was initially expected to be released on Netflix in February 2021 but was later delayed to an unspecified date.[20][21] In August 2021, Netflix announced that the film would be released on October 6, 2021.[22][23]

Reception[]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 47% of 51 reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.5/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "A likeable cast and strong set-pieces give There's Someone Inside Your House a lift, but they're outweighed by its messily misguided story."[24] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 45 out of 100, based on reviews from 12 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[25]

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