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It’s a big weekend for smaller indie distributors – or at least not the biggest – as they spotted a weekend with nothing new from A24 or Neon and just one major studio opening in what has, and will be, been a crowded summer.

MCU’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps is the 800-pound gorilla – other studio films “cleared out of the weekend,” says one indie distribution executive. So edgier fare has a better shot. Sony Pictures Classics’ Oh, Hi! and Roadside Attractions’ The Home open on 1,000 screens, IFC’s House on Eden on 600. Magnolia doc Folktales, Oscilloscope’s Diciannove and Greenwich Entertainment’s Shoshana are limited releases, which can always be good counter-programming.

“Often in the summer you are constantly just fighting for screens and looking for whatever weekend you can get the most theaters,” said another exec. Not that it’s a breeze to find space, with tentpole fare...

Let's be honest. When you hear the name Pete Davidson, you don't think of horror movies, right? You think of things like Saturday Night Live, Ariana Grande, and the 2020 dramedy The King of Staten Island. Maybe Bodies Bodies Bodies comes to mind, but his name isn't exactly synonymous with the genre. Kudos to him for trying something different, though, but unfortunately his new psychological horror flick, The Home, missed the mark with critics upon its release today, earning just a 24% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

"Ninety-seven torturous minutes of muddled storytelling, tiresome horror tropes and poorly delivered social commentary," said MovieWeb's own Mark Keizer in his review of The Home, while Robert Daniels from RogerEbert.com added that it's "a brain-dead horror film whose potential for fun campy excess is undercut by its own self-satisfied twist and its illogical turns." Joseph Robinson from Fish Jelly Films also wasn't impressed with The Home,...

James DeMonaco is known for creating the iconic Purge franchise, which sadly feels more prescient with each passing day. But after a slew of successful films, DeMonaco is branching out with a new tale of terror: The Home, which tackles the massive topic of aging. Written by DeMonaco and his writing partner Adam Cantor, they both prove that they know how to craft one heck of a wild and creepy movie.

In the new film:

A rebellious twenty-something is sentenced to community service at a quiet retirement home. The residents on the fourth floor are strictly off-limits, said to require “special care.” As his suspicions grow and he digs deeper, he uncovers a chilling secret that puts both the residents’ lives and his own in grave danger.

In our exclusive clip, our hero gets a glimpse at what lurks on the mysterious fourth floor.

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James DeMonaco’s elder care thriller The Home feels like another movie’s in-universe fake watch. Like, if in a Scream sequel, teens exclaimed, “Shut up, I’m trying to watch the Pete Davidson old folks horror flick!” It’s predictable yet outlandish; a narrative that operates by presuming you know what’s coming and that doesn’t matter. DeMonaco and co-writer Adam Cantor deal in the horrors of twilight years and Boomerisms, but commentaries get lost in a jump-around tale of asylum frights under the guise of senior care. Where The Rule of Jenny Pen is a more psychological takedown of aged paranoias, The Home opts for gruesome midnighter wackiness—whether intentional or not.

Davidson stars as Max, a foster-kid slacker who can’t keep himself out of trouble. The death of his brother Luke weighs heavily years later, driving him down a path of torched potential. After his latest vandalism arrest,...

Pete Davidson of Saturday Night Live fame is known for his comedic timing and his stand-up shows. However, the actor and comedian has further branched out to different genres and has just had his first true attempt at a horror film with The Home, after first having a go in the dark comedy horror with 2022's Bodies Bodies Bodies.

The horror film just debuted in theaters, and it comes from The Purge creator James DeMonaco. The Home had all the ingredients for a successful horror release, with a chilling premise and an experienced filmmaker. However, as The Home hit theaters on Jul. 25, the horror debuted with an abysmal 26% approval score from the critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

The psychological horror's rating comes from 19 reviews, and the score might fluctuate as more opinions come in. However, The Home is not off to a great start. Since the film has just premiered, there is no audience score available,...

“The Home” has some curiosity value attached to it: How will “Saturday Night Live” alum Pete Davidson fare in his first non-comedic performance? However, its major selling point might be that it comes from James DeMonaco, the filmmaker behind the commercially successful “The Purge” franchise. Audiences drawn to “The Home” for either reason might come out disappointed. Davidson shows he may not have the chops to carry a horror film, while DeMonaco fails to deliver any thrills this time. Ultimately, it’s a by-the-numbers effort that proves quite disappointing.

Davidson plays Max, a troubled young man sentenced to four months of community service at a retirement home in remote upstate New York. Max grew up in a foster home run by kind parents (Jessica Hecht and Victor Williams), though they are all now grieving the passing of his foster brother who died by suicide. The tenants of the retirement home,...

“The Purge” series writer and director James DeMonaco has never shied away from political themes in his movies. But he had a whopper of an idea that led to his latest film, “The Home,” which he directed and co-wrote with Adam Cantor.

“This generation being raped by previous generations coalesced into this idea of this old age community that wasn’t what it seemed,” he says.

In the film, Pete Davidson plays Max, a rough but kind-hearted young man sentenced to community service at a retirement home. But he quickly learns that the residents — played by veteran actors like John Glover and Bruce Altman — and the facility itself hold some dark and deadly secrets.

Needless to say, DeMonaco says this horror movie ultimately underscores tension between generations.

“There is this underlying theme in the film about how the previous generations are now robbing this generation of many resources on the planet,...

Early in James DeMonaco’s The Home, the deeply troubled Max (Pete Davidson) arrives at the retirement home where he’s been assigned to work as a janitor for community service hours, and it’s instantly clear that something is really off about the place. Max first eyes a creepy-looking old person staring out of a window on the top floor before walking inside the home and hearing 1930s big band music playing slightly out of tune on a Victrola and, then, peeping into a room to find an elderly woman in a porcelain doll mask having sex.

It’s all meant to be ominous, but there’s a randomness to these supposedly unsettling sights and sounds that we glimpse throughout the film—a hodgepodge of jump scares and disturbing imagery in search of a cohesive story. DeMonaco and Adam Cantor’s script is full of twists and turns that...

Ever since his brother died, Max (Pete Davidson), the protagonist of James DeMonaco’s new horror film The Home, has moved through the world with a melancholic listlessness. He’s plagued by nightmares of his final days with Luke (Matthew Miniero), a gangly teen who took his own life when Max was 11 years old. When Max, now in his 20s, can’t sleep, he hops out of bed and tags buildings with murals pulled from his dreams.

When we meet Max, he’s been arrested by cops for trespassing and spray painting. His adoptive parents (Jessica Hecht and Victor Williams) bail him out and cut a deal with the authorities: In lieu of jail time, Max will serve as a superintendent for a nursing home. The gig isn’t ideal, but neither is the reality of prison.

Working from a screenplay co-written with Adam Cantor, James DeMonaco, best known for the The Purge series,...

If the late, great George A. Romero has an heir apparent, James DeMonaco has a serious claim to the throne. His film series “The Purge,” about a yearly American holiday where murder is legal, is — much like Romero’s zombie movies — a blistering critique on modern America’s decay, which shines a light on the fragility of social structures we take for granted. Except in DeMonaco’s world people have not turned on each other because civilization collapsed. In “The Purge,” civilization collapsed because people wanted an excuse to turn on each other.

So a brand new DeMonaco film is always an exciting prospect. Or at least, it was until “The Home.” “The Home” is yet another angry film. The target of its ire is relevant and it warrants skewering. But for some reason DeMonaco, who’s usually so eager to confront his audience, pulls his biggest punches. “The Home...

Evil never gets old in The Home, and neither do horror movies for filmmaker James DeMonaco.

“I think horror is the best genre to watch with a crowd,” DeMonaco tells me. “I also think it’s a great vessel to smuggle sociopolitical commentary, like John Carpenter and George Romero did. It’s still fun to get people thinking.”

The Home stars Pete Davidson as a graffiti artist sentenced to community service at a quiet retirement home. In DeMonaco’s words, “While there, he begins to suspect that something strange is going on. He discovers a sinister plot at the center of this very creepy home.”

As the creator and driving force behind The Purge franchise — including a new film in the works — DeMonaco is no stranger to injecting social commentary into his work. The Home continues that tradition, albeit with a more subtle approach.

“I think I’ve crossed the...

Saturday Night Live alum Pete Davidson takes on his darkest role yet in The Home, a new thriller from The Purge creator James DeMonaco. Cbr has an exclusive clip to premiere from the film ahead of its release on July 25.

In the movie, Davidson plays a young troublemaker sentenced to serve community service, which he does at a seemingly innocuous nursing home. What's peculiar about the facility is that the residents on the fourth floor are entirely off limits, and it's not long before he goes digging, eager to uncover whatever it is that the staff appears to be hiding. A tense clip from The Home, featuring Davidson observe something strange on the security cameras, can be watched below.

"In this horror thriller," as the official logline reads, "a rebellious twentysomething (Davidson) is sentenced to community service at a quiet retirement home. The residents on the fourth floor are strictly off-limits,...

“Saturday Night Live” alum Pete Davidson enters the horror genre this summer in The Home, the new horror movie from The Purge creator and director James DeMonaco.

Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions will release The Home in theaters on July 25, 2025, and they’ve provided Bloody Disgusting with an exclusive sneak peek clip this week.

The clip is titled “Gluttony,” and it previews the nursing home nightmare that Pete Davidson will be experiencing up on the big screen next week. Watch the exclusive clip down below.

In this horror thriller from the creator of The Purge, a rebellious twenty-something is sentenced to community service at a quiet retirement home. The residents on the fourth floor are strictly off-limits, said to require “special care.” As his suspicions grow and he digs deeper, he uncovers a chilling secret that puts both the residents’ lives and his own in grave danger.

John Glover and Bruce Altman star alongside Pete Davidson.

Signature Entertainment has shared the UK trailer for The Home, which will headline FrightFest 2025 as its Opening Film on 21 August at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square before landing on digital platforms on 22 August and on DVD and Blu-ray from 29 September. The film marks an exciting return for its writer-director James DeMonaco, best known for creating The Purge, and casts Pete Davidson in a role that blends generational conflict with outright horror.

Davidson plays Max, a defiant young graffiti artist whose run-in with the law leads to community service at Green Meadows Retirement Home in upstate New York. Assigned to janitorial duties, Max expects a sleepy sentence but soon crosses paths with vibrant residents whose whispered warnings about the off-limits fourth floor ignite his suspicions. A series of mysterious deaths and late-night screams propel him on a quest to uncover what lurks behind the home’s polished walls.

Veteran character actors underpin Davidson’s performance.

In the trailer for the horror thriller The Home, Pete Davidson’s character receives some simple instructions. It’s his first day on the job at an eerily quaint retirement home, and there isn’t much to do. All his employers ask is that he leave the place just as he found it and do not venture up to the fourth floor under any circumstances. Easy enough. But rebellious by nature, Davidson lets his curiosity get the best of him. It nearly gets him killed.

“There’s something very wrong with this place,...

Coming soon from James DeMonaco, creator of The Purge, is The Home, a terrifying new horror thriller starring Pete Davidson. With DeMonaco at the helm and a script co-written by DeMonaco and Adam Cantor, The Home promises to be a shocking tale of one young man’s shocking discovery at a retirement home…

Read the full synopsis below:

A rebellious twentysomething is sentenced to community service at a quiet retirement home. The residents on the fourth floor are strictly off-limits, said to require “special care.” As his suspicions grow and he digs deeper, he uncovers a chilling secret that puts both the residents’ lives and his own in grave danger.

Watch the new trailer:

Pete Davidson, John Glover, and Bruce Altman star in the horror thriller. Bill Block and Sebastien K. Lemercier served as producers.

The Home comes exclusively to theaters on July 25, 2025, from Lionsgate & Roadside Attractions.

Pete Davidson is making his horror debut with the latest thriller from “The Purge” creator James DeMonaco. After starring in killer comedy “Bodies Bodies Bodies,” Davidson fully leans into the genre with DeMonaco’s “The Home” which is set in a retirement community.

Davidson plays a rebellious twentysomething who is sentenced to community service at the seemingly-quiet nursing home. However, the residents on the fourth floor are strictly off-limits due to their “special care” procedures. As the logline teases, “as his suspicions grow and he digs deeper, he uncovers a chilling secret that puts both the residents’ lives and his own in grave danger.” John Glover and Bruce Altman also star. DeMonaco directs from a script he co-wrote with Adam Cantor.

“When I set out to create ‘The Home,’ I aimed to capture the spine-chilling eeriness of 70’s horror, where suspense simmers and ultimately erupts into glorious chaos,” DeMonaco said.

The Purge creator and director James DeMonaco is back this coming Summer with The Home, a brand new horror movie starring “Saturday Night Live” alum Pete Davidson.

Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions have announced today that The Home will be released in theaters on July 25, 2025, and they’ve also released the official trailer for the movie.

In this horror thriller from the creator of The Purge, a rebellious twenty-something is sentenced to community service at a quiet retirement home. The residents on the fourth floor are strictly off-limits, said to require “special care.” As his suspicions grow and he digs deeper, he uncovers a chilling secret that puts both the residents’ lives and his own in grave danger.

John Glover and Bruce Altman star alongside Pete Davidson.

James DeMonaco wrote the screenplay alongside Adam Cantor.

Watch the trailer for The Home starring Pete Davidson below.

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Pete Davidsonis known as a comedian. He made a name for himself on Saturday Night Liveand has starred in some great comedies since, but now he's taking a dive into the world of horror, and his latest movie really will have you afraid of the fourth floor. The new film, The Home, follows a young man as he works as a janitor at a home for the elderly, completing his community service. But something is wrong with the patients (and the employees) of the home, and even though he shouldn't go to the fourth floor, his curiosity inevitably gets the best of him as more and more strange things begin happening.

The cast includes Davidson, John Glover, Bruce Altman, and more! And you can see the horrors that away this man just trying to get through his community service when The Home hits theaters this summer on July 25! The Home...

Signature Entertainment has acquired the U.K. and Ireland rights to the Pete Davidson (“The King of Staten Island”) horror film ”The Home” from Miramax.

The feature was produced by Bill Block (“Halloween Kills”) and Sébastian K. Lemercier (“The First Purge”) and is directed by James DeMonaco (“The Purge” franchise) from a script co-written by DeMonaco and Adam Cantor. Last year Lionsgate bought the film for the U.S. after it screened for buyers outside of competition at the Toronto Film Festival.

“The Home” follows former foster child Max, who begins working at a retirement home, where he quickly discovers that its residents and caretakers are harboring sinister secrets.

The deal was negotiated between Signature chief commercial officer Elizabeth Williams and Miramax’s senior vice president of international production and distribution Yvette Zhuang.

“We’re big fans of horror at Signature Entertainment and after seeing ‘The Home,’ we knew this...

Two Saturday Night Live legends, Pete Davidson and Eddie Murphy, are joining forces for The Pickup, an upcoming comedy directed by Tim Story. The project hails from Amazon MGM Studios, with plot details remaining a mystery. Smoke on the street says The Pickup is a heist comedy with a script by Matt Mider and Kevin Burrows.

In addition to his directorial duties, Story produces through his The Story Company banner, with Davis Entertainment’s John Davis and John Fox, and Murphy and Charisse Hewitt-Webster via Eddie Murphy Productions. The Story Company’s Vicky Mara Story, Davis Entertainment’s Jeremy Stein, and Kevin Burrows, Ross Fanger, and Matt Mider executive produce.

When he’s not the subject of paparazzi fodder or changing dating partners like fresh pairs of underwear, Davidson appears in films like Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Fast X, Dumb Money, and Good Burger 2. He recently completed his role for The Home.

Exclusive: Lionsgate has closed a U.S. deal for The Home, the James DeMonaco-directed thriller that stars Pete Davidson. The film was made be Miramax, and it screened for buyers outside competition at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival in the Industry Selects category that the festival started to highlight commercial films.

If you’ve been scoring from home, this goes down as another deal from TIFF 2023. After a slow start, the festival has led to a wellspring of film deals, one of the fest’s strongest showings in years.

The deal closed after the exit last week of Miramax CEO Bill Block, who made the film and placed it at TIFF. On the Lionsgate side was Charlotte Koh, EVP Acquisitions and Co-Productions, along with the film’s producers, Block and Sebastian K. Lemercier. Look for this one to get a theatrical release in the early part of 2024.

Deal comes right...