The Beach House
Directed by Jeffrey A. Brown
Escaping to his family’s beach house to reconnect, Emily and Randall find their off-season trip interrupted by Mitch and Jane Turner, an older couple acquainted with Randall’s estranged father. Unexpected bonds form as the couples let loose and enjoy the isolation, but it all takes an ominous turn as increasingly strange environmental phenomena begin to warp their peaceful evening. As the effects of an infection become evident, Emily struggles to make sense of the contagion before it’s too late. A SHUDDER ORIGINAL.
A couple's beach getaway turns terrifying when an environmental contagion takes hold.
Cast: Liana Liberato, Noah Le Gros, Jake Weber, Maryann Nagel
Member Reviews
Close the damn window. Slow, no hook, felt like a constant Act 1 then it ends.
Here's another film with a great build up from the first hour but then ends weird at the final fifteen minutes. These nonsensical climaxes just don't do it for me. I know when to turn it off if I ever bother to watch it again.
Lacks a hook, no real connection to the characters.
Personally, this is not for me. I don't normally give bad reviews, but I feel I need to with this one. Nothing is explained in any aspect at all, except a small snippet of AM radio and shortwave radio. And what little is audible, is barely coherent. Said infection is only shown five times with absolutely next to no context(except a two minute scene). And thee only threat is the overwhelming "what is it" feeling. It's slow, boring, characters are all just there, and it feels rushed for a eighty seven minute film. It tried, it failed in my eyes, and it just didn't do the trick for me. It might be good for some other folks, but for someone who has been watching horror movies for over three decades: Hard Pass on a second viewing.
Not worth the time. One cool shot but a lot of the atmosphere building was like the Oppenheimer style of strange imagery, but without substance. Slow, painfully slow.