“You were right. There is nothing. You’re safe now.”
When you read the above, what do you think? Does it sound like something comforting someone might say to someone going through a hard time? Or does it sound a little ominous and unsettling?
Before watching the trailer for the forthcoming The Night House, I would’ve thought those words were trying to convey comfort. But after seeing the trailer? Uh uh.
I don’t know what it all means, but now I want to find out. Which may happen this summer. The Night House is due in theaters on July 16.
When I wrote about The Resort and how 2021 is spitting out some awesome-looking haunted house and haunted place movies, I hadn’t seen the post from Nerdist yet about The Night House. Let’s take a closer look at this haunted house movie that might just turn the genre inside out, upside down, and on its head.
The Night House Storyline
Here’s the description that accompanies its trailer on YouTube:
Reeling from the unexpected death of her husband, Beth (Rebecca Hall) is left alone in the lakeside home he built for her. She tries as best she can to keep it together – but then nightmares come. Disturbing visions of a presence in the house calling to her, beckoning her with a ghostly allure. Against the advice of her friends, she begins digging into her husband’s belongings, yearning for answers. What she finds are secrets both strange and disturbing – a mystery she’s determined to unravel.
Thanks to the trailer we know part of what she finds: that her husband was keeping secrets, including a second house that’s an exact replica of the one he built from them —except it’s backward.
See? Twisted! (And if you still don’t agree, maybe you will after watching the trailer…)
The Night House Cast
The movie stars Rebecca Hall (Holmes & Watson, Christine), Sarah Goldberg (Barry, Elementary), Vondie Curtis Hall (Die Hard 2, Eve’s Bayou), Evan Jonigkeit (Togetherish, Sweetbitter), and Stacy Martin (Vox Lux, Nymphomaniac).
The Night House Trailer
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As many commenters on the trailer pointed out, it’s directed by David Bruckner (V/H/S, Southbound, The Ritual) and many were “in” for that reason alone. Others because of Rebecca Hall. She always does a good job, but the bloody footprints had me.
What part grabbed your attention? If anything did. If not, let me know that too!
Courtney Mroch is a globe-trotting restless spirit who’s both possessed by wanderlust and the spirit of adventure, and obsessed with true crime, horror, the paranormal, and weird days. Perhaps it has something to do with her genes? She is related to occult royalty, after all. Marie Laveau, the famous Voodoo practitioner of New Orleans, is one of her ancestors. (Yes, really! As explained here.) That could also explain her infatuation with skeletons.
Speaking of mystical, to learn how Courtney channeled her battle with cancer to conjure up this site, check out HJ’s Origin Story.
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OMGosh, it looks awesome! I watched the trailer and was holding my breath. The backwards house thing, that got me!