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Nightmarish Imagery Enters ‘The Beach House’ [Exclusive]
Jeffrey A. Brown‘s festival hit The Beach House is headed to Shudder this coming Thursday, July 9th.
Our own Daniel Kurland raved about Brown’s indie horror film in his 4-star review last year, writing that his directorial debut is “a powerful, emotional throwback to ‘50s sci-fi that presents a stunning glimpse of a parasitic invasion.” Kurland added, “[Brown] crafts a slick tale of invasion and destruction that’s both intimate and cosmically grand.”
In the film, “Escaping to a family’s beach house to reconnect, Emily and Randall find their off-season trip interrupted by Mitch and Jane, an older couple acquainted with Randall’s estranged father. Unexpected bonds form as the couples let loose and enjoy the isolation, but it all takes an ominous turn as increasingly strange environmental phenomena begin to warp their peaceful evening. As the effects of an infection become evident, Emily struggles to make sense of the contagion before it’s too late.”
Looking like a cross between this year’s genre films Color Out of Space and Sea Fever, Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive new look at the terrors of The Beach House.
Are you ready to go back?
After a record-breaking box office run and an extended cut re-release, A24 and director Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is heading home to Digital.
Backrooms will be available to rent or buy this Tuesday, July 14.
In the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Backrooms as the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, who discovers a strange doorway in the basement of the furniture showroom. He sets out to explore the mysterious, liminal space, walking headfirst into a creepypasta nightmare.
Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) also stars in Backrooms.
Will Soodik wrote the screenplay.
I wrote in my review, “Backrooms is at once complex and sparse, but never repetitive. It might be set in 1990, but it effectively captures modern anxieties and isolation in a way that frequently makes your skin crawl. While the journey ultimately loses steam by its cryptic end, Parsons’ visual representation of the human psyche disturbs like no other.”
YouTube prodigy Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut based on his creepypasta-inspired video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date.
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