2021 · horror · mystery · music
The Night House
Directed by David Bruckner1h 47m2021
Reeling from the unexpected death of her husband, Beth is left alone in the lakeside home he built for her. Soon she begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.
Our read: The Night House (2021) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive horror · mystery · music entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, extreme horror / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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