The Night House(2021)

Searchlight Pictures

R
1h 47m

Release Date: Aug 20, 2021 | Wide

C-
6.4

A widow begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.

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Original Release | Aug 20, 2021

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Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$2,859,409
Total US & Canada:
$7,100,581
Total International
$8,337,122
Total Worldwide:
$15,437,703

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Director & Top Cast

David Bruckner
Director

Rebecca Hall
Beth

Sarah Goldberg
Claire

Vondie Curtis-Hall
Mel

Evan Jonigkeit
Owen

Stacy Martin
Madelyne

David Abeles

Gary

Christina Jackson

Heather

Patrick A. Sova

Bob

Crystal Swann

Actor

Catherine Weidner

Teacher

Laura Austin

Teacher

Jacob Garrett White

Clerk

Samantha Buck

Becky

Lydia Hand

Woman in Pink

Lea Enslin

Woman in White

Amy Zubieta

Woman in Green

Allie McCulloch

Woman in Red

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Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: United Kingdom,United States

Language: English

Summaries

Plot Summary

Beth has just lost her husband Owen to suicide. He took a boat out from the lakehouse they live in and shot himself with a gun that Beth didn't know he owned. Beth is devastated by his death and spends her nights drinking and going through Owen's belongings. She insists on continuing her regular job as a teacher and tries to seem stable and in control much to the concern of her friend Claire and neighbor Mel. An ominous suicide note left by Owen where he claimed that "There is nothing. Nothing is after you. You're safe now" continues to perplex Beth. Beth begins to suffer from strange supernatural events at night that she initially dismisses as dreams but slowly realizes they are real. While going through Owen's belongings, Beth finds floor plans for a reverse of their lake house.Beth also discovers a photo on Owen's phone of a woman who looks very similar to her. She suspects Owen was having an affair and is asked by Claire to stop digging into Owen's past. After a night out with Claire and their coworkers, a drunken Beth reveals that she died for four minutes in a car accident years ago and saw that there was nothing when she died. Owen always disagreed with this and was close to changing her mind before he died. Beth also states that she suffered from depression and that Owen began sleepwalking a year ago, expressing concern that she somehow passed her negative emotions to him. That night, Beth is awoken by a supernatural presence and witnesses several frightened women fleeing through the woods. Investigating, she finds blood on the boat where Owen shot himself and feels an invisible presence.Traversing across the lake to investigate a strange set of lights, Beth discovers a reversed, identical copy of her and Owen's house and sees ghostly figures of women with Owen. She passes out and reawakens in her own house the next morning before she can investigate. She heads to the house again and encounters Mel who expresses concern for Beth's mental wellbeing. She finds the house although this time it is not finished and is empty. Beth retrieves a strange statue from the house and confronts Mel who claims he never saw a house but admits he once saw Owen in the woods at night with a woman who looked similar to Beth. Beth continues her investigation, finding more photos of women who look similar to her on Owen's laptop and identifies the statue from one of Owen's books as an occult voodoo doll. It appears that Owen was researching about tricking and trapping demonic entities.Beth travels to the bookstore where Owen bought the occult books and encounters one of the women from Owen's photos called Madelyne. An enraged Beth tells her what happened to Owen but Madelyne denies sleeping with Owen. Back at the house, Beth is haunted by a silhouette of Owen. Beth visits Claire who asks Beth to spend a few days away from the house. Beth agrees and heads home to pack. She threatens the ghost in the house, demanding to know the truth. Madelyne arrives at the house. She tells Beth how she was invited over by Owen and visited the reverse house. While kissing Owen, he attempted to choke her but soon apologized once she panicked and fled. Once Madelyne leaves, Beth visits the reverse house and discovers multiple bodies under the floorboards of the women that Owen had photographed. A horrified Beth tries to call Claire but can't get through to her.The invisible force harasses Beth again and Beth hugs it, mistaking it for Owen's spirit. The spirit reveals that it isn't Owen and shows her visions of Owen killing the various women. Beth tries to flee the house and sees more of Owen attacking and murdering the women. She is attacked and dragged through the house by the entity. It reveals that it was actually what Beth saw when she died, it is "Nothing". Nothing explains that it tried convincing Owen to kill Beth in order to bring Beth back to it but he resisted. He built the reverse house and murdered the lookalikes of Beth to try and trick Nothing but Nothing eventually realized the trick and resisted. It traps Beth in a position like the statue she had retrieved from the house.In the morning, Claire arrives at the house and sees evidence of a fight in the house. Discovering that the gun Owen used to kill himself is gone, Claire rushes out to the dock with Mel where they find Beth floating out in the boat with the gun. In Nothing's dimension, the demon tries to convince Beth to join it and kill herself but Claire's yells snap Beth out of her trance. Claire retrieves Beth from the boat and makes it back to the dock. Beth sees the outline of the demon floating in the boat and when Mel asks what she's looking at, she replies that "it's nothing" suggesting Beth has finally overcome her grief.

Storyline

Having buried her husband recently, emotionally scarred, grief-stricken high-school teacher Beth returns to the spacious, eerily vacant lake house he built for her in the heart of a gloomy forest. But as pained Beth tries to pick up the pieces, before long, mysterious shadows and blood-curdling reflections on the windows start to taunt her, and suddenly, she finds herself opening boxes, rummaging through the deceased's belongings. And little by little, Beth's intense late-night nightmares become increasingly vivid, taking a toll on her already fragile sanity. Now, pressing questions demand clear answers. Will Beth ever unearth the secret of the night house? — Nick Riganas The schoolteacher Beth is grieving the loss of her husband, the architect Owen, who committed suicide a few days ago in the boat of the family. Beth lives in the house nearby a lake designed and built by Owen and misses him. During the night, her hears thumping on the wall and believes Owen wants to communicate with her. Her best friend, the also teacher Claire, invites Beth to drink with their friends Gary and Heather that also work at school. Beth drinks too much and when Claire brings her home, she says that she once died in a car accident for four minutes when she was seventeen. Beth continues to overhear noise and strange things happening at home and decides to nose around Owen's stuffs despite the advice from Claire. Soon she learns dark secrets about her beloved husband that was trying to protect her from a dangerous entity. — Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil