There's Someone Inside Your House (film)

High school football player Jackson Pace awakes to photographs taken on the night he beat up a gay classmate, Caleb, as part of a haze. Jackson is then stabbed to death by someone wearing a mask resembling his own face, and the killer then exposes the film of Caleb's assault to the entire school.

The next day at school, friends Makani, Alex, Zach, Darby, and Rodrigo let Caleb sit with them at lunch after he is shunned by the rest of the school. The school's student council president, Katie, reads aloud one of her essays, and says that there will be a memorial at a church. The friends notice a student, Ollie, looking at them, which scares them. Unbeknownst to them, Ollie is Makani's ex. At the church, while Katie is setting up, someone begins to play a racist and homophobic podcast that she recorded. She is confronted by the killer, who is wearing a mask of her face, and stabbed in the confessional while attempting to call 911. The congregation walks into the church to find her bloody corpse hanging from the ceiling.

The next night, Zach is hosting a party while his family is out of town where everyone must share their secrets. Alex and Rodrigo confess that they have crushes on each other. Makani confesses she writes poetry. Zach reveals that his father, Skipper, owns lots of Nazi memorabilia, most of which Zach converted into bongs. The partygoers get high, while Rodrigo takes fentanyl, which is his real secret. Rodrigo finds a trail of pills leading to his bottle, before everyone gets text messages about his addiction. The lights go out, prompting everyone to run away. Rodrigo sees the killer wearing a mask of his face and escapes through the ventilation system. Running out to the front yard, he's relieved until the killer tases him. The killer then forces him to choke on his fentanyl pills, right before slashing his throat, ultimately killing him.

The next day, most of the school, including Alex, believes that Ollie is the murderer. Ollie takes Makani out for a drive and they kiss. Makani finds the missing taser gun in Ollie's car and realizes that Ollie ordered a background search on her, prompting her to call an Uber back home, as she now believes Ollie is the killer. That night at her house, she awakens to find her front door open, her phone gone, and her living room plastered of pictures of a burn victim. The killer, now wearing a mask of Makani's face, breaks the window and tries to kill her, but her friends arrive before the killer succeeds. Makani tells her friends her real secret: during a hazing by her varsity teammates, she and the other haze victims were tortured and forced to get drunk. In a drunken state, Makani pushed one of her friends into a bonfire, badly burning her. She says that she is now sure Ollie is the killer and the police place him under arrest.

The next day, Skipper holds a corn maze next to the school. Makani gets a message from Darby that Ollie has been released by his brother just as his car pulls up to the school parking lot. Makani runs inside to avoid him, and she bumps into Caleb, who is then stabbed by the killer. The killer gives Makani the knife before Ollie and Makani's friends arrive and manage to save Caleb's life.

Makani realizes that the killer is headed for the corn maze. The killer sets fire to the maze with the football team inside, so they drive into the flames to help the football players escape. Ollie and Makani confront the killer, who kills Skipper before revealing himself to be Zach. Ollie tries to shoot Zach with his taser, but Zach stabs him. Zach explains to Makani that he killed everyone because he wanted to expose everyone's secrets in revenge for the bullying he endured thanks to his father's corrupt actions, while claiming that he's a victim for being born "with privilege". Zach then reveals he intends to frame Makani for his crimes, but Ollie distracts him, allowing Makani to stab Zach, mortally wounding him. Makani angrily destroys Zach's claims of being a victim by denouncing him as a psychopath who blames others for what's wrong when Zach himself is the real problem, and then declares she doesn't need to wear a mask to show him who he truly is, before ultimately killing Zach.

Sometime later, Makani, Ollie, and their friends celebrate graduation with everyone in the group getting into the colleges they wanted to get in, and Makani decides to reconnect with her friend from the bonfire.

Producers Shawn Levy and James Wan

There's Someone Inside Your House is an adaptation of the 2017 novel of the same name by Stephanie Perkins. The project was announced in March 2018, when Deadline Hollywood revealed Netflix had partnered with Shawn Levy and James Wan to produce the film under their Atomic Monster and 21 Laps companies, respectively, with a screenplay adapted by Henry Gayden.[2] At the time, the film was described as an amalgamation of genres, in the vein of quintessential slasher films such as Friday the 13th and Scream as well as coming-of-age dramas such as John Hughes' The Breakfast Club and George Lucas' American Graffiti.[2][3] Additional producers of the film include Dan Cohen and Michael Clear.[4]

In March 2019, it was announced that Patrick Brice would direct the film from Gayden's script.[5][6][7] In August 2019, Sydney Park, Théodore Pellerin, Asjha Cooper, Dale Whibley, Jesse LaTourette, Burkely Duffield, Diego Josef, Zane Clifford and Sarah Dugdale joined the cast of the film.[8][9][10][11] Principal photography began in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on August 22, 2019, and ended on October 12, 2019.[12][13][14] Additional photography for the film concluded on August 23, 2020.[15] Michel Aller served as the primary editor for the film.[16] Zachary Dawes composed the score.[17]

There's Someone Inside Your House premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 23, 2021.[18][19] The film was initially expected to be released on Netflix in February 2021 but was later delayed,[20][21] and in August 2021, Netflix announced that it would be released on October 6, 2021 instead.[22][23]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 46% of 56 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.5/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "A likeable cast and strong set-pieces give There's Someone Inside Your House a lift, but they're outweighed by its messily misguided story."[24] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 45 out of 100, based on reviews from 12 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews."[25]

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