20s Movie Review - There's Someone Inside Your House

Director: Patrick Brice
Genre: Thriller/ Horror/ Mystery
Runtime: 96 minutes
Year: 2021
Starring: Sydney Park, Theodore Pellerin, Asjha Cooper, Dale Whibley, Jesse LaTourette, Burkley Duffield, Diego Josef, Zane Clifford

Description: The graduating class at Osborne High is being targeten by a masked assailant, intent on exploring the darkest secret of each victim, and only a group of misfit outsiders can stop the killings.

Review: “There’s Someone Inside Your House” is the film adaptation of the novel of the same name. In the film, a masked thriller targets a group of teenagers who all carry a secret with them. The killer is out to expose the teens with secrets and kill them in gruesome ways.

The opening of the film is quite promising. Unfortunately, the pace sags considerably halfway through. This is due to the fact that the teenagers we follow are not particularly interesting. Aside from the lead character Makani, we don’t get much backstory from the youngsters, which makes them very superficial and one-dimensional. Thus, they only serve one purpose: to be killed. This could work fine in the slasher genre, but not here. And the questions “who is the culprit” eventually means little. By the end of the film, the tension is gone and you’re left with the feeling that there could have been more to it.
Is there nothing good about this film? Yes, there is. The appearance of the killer is creative. He wears the “face” of the person he is about to murder. And the few kills we get, are filmed well.

It’s moderately entertaining, but highly forgettable.

Rating: 2/ 5