A widow begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.A widow begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.A widow begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.
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- 1 win & 19 nominations
Vondie Curtis-Hall
- Mel
- (as Vondie Curtis Hall)
Patrick A. Sova
- Bob
- (as Patrick Klein)
Amber Anne
- Bridesmaid
- (uncredited)
- …
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- TriviaWhen Beth flips through photos on Owen's phone, one of the first photos shown is of two men laughing. The photo is of the film's screenwriters, Luke Piotrowski and Ben Collins, who met in high school in Georgia and began writing together in college.
- GoofsWhenever the stereo switches on to show a presence, it plays the same CD. However, the screen on the stereo always shows that FM is selected and it's tuned to 87.4, the starting point of the FM tuning spectrum where no channels exist.
- ConnectionsFeatured in How Sound Is Used to Create Suspense in Horror Movies (2021)
- SoundtracksThe Calvary Cross
Written by Richard Thompson
Performed by Richard Thompson & Linda Thompson
Courtesy of Universal-Island Records Ltd
Under License from Universal Music Enterprises
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For the first hour of the movie I was very much intrigued by this slowly but effectively unfolding story, getting more and more bewildered, just like main character Beth, by the weird and scary goings-on. The photography is great, and beside a nice sinister atmosphere, there are multiple jump-scares to keep you on the edge of your chair. Rebecca Hall carries the whole movie admirably, she's totally convincing, first as the grieved and forlorn widow of a husband that out of the blue committed suicide, subsequently as the exasperated woman who thinks she's losing her mind. She's not trying to win our sympathy with her aggrieved and angry behavior and her heavy drinking, but you do team up with her when her world turns upside down on her.
Unfortunately in the last half hour, when you expect that all loose ends finally will come together, the story went totally overboard, every other new thing that Beth finds out about her husband only made the narrative get more and more incomprehensible, and at last the weirdness and confusion escalated into a conclusion that was really too mind-boggling, at least for my simple brain.
But maybe expecting some logic in a supernatural ghost story is a bit naive anyway.
Unfortunately in the last half hour, when you expect that all loose ends finally will come together, the story went totally overboard, every other new thing that Beth finds out about her husband only made the narrative get more and more incomprehensible, and at last the weirdness and confusion escalated into a conclusion that was really too mind-boggling, at least for my simple brain.
But maybe expecting some logic in a supernatural ghost story is a bit naive anyway.
- johannes2000-1
- Sep 20, 2021
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- La casa oscura
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $7,100,581
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,859,409
- Aug 22, 2021
- Gross worldwide
- $15,437,703
- Runtime1 hour 47 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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