Director: Jeffrey A. Brown
Notable Cast: Liana Liberato, Noah Le Gros, Jake Weber,
Maryann Nagel
As I mentioned in a previous review just a couple of months
ago, but 2020 seems to be the perfect year to use horror films to work through
the insecurities, fears, and emotions that a rapidly changing world has pressed
onto society. Perhaps it's just this sense of impending doom that really makes The
Beach House such an impactful watch. It doesn’t help that the film
sincerely hits the atmosphere and many of the feelings that being thrust into a
global pandemic inspires. Does this make it a film that works because 2020 is
upon us? Timing is certainly part of it, but it’s also a film that is so
inherently well made and executed that even without the parallels it would have
been a devastating and suffocating cinematic experience.
A young couple, Emily and Randall, go to his father’s beach
house to reconnect and hammer out the dents in their relationship.
Unfortunately, another couple, one of his father’s friends, is already staying
there for the weekend. The two couples decide to stay for a couple days together
and just enjoy the company. Too bad it’s also on the night that something in
the ocean is unleashed from inside the Earth.
