THERE’S SOMEONE INSIDE YOUR HOUSE

US, 2021, 96 minutes, Colour.

Sydney Park, Theodore Pellerin, Asher Cooper, Dale Whibley, Jesse La Tourette, Diego Josef, Zane Clifford.

Directed by Patrick Brice.

Continuing the tradition of the slasher film, the slasher film set amongst high school students, football matches, socials, and Nebraska corn fair… As many have commented, it has all been done before!

The title is somewhat misleading although strictly apt in the prologue, rather eerie haunting of a footballer and then his ankles being slashed. Later, the killer does come inside the leading lady’s house. Otherwise activity is not in the house.

This is a variation on the theme, and then there were none. The second killing takes place in a Catholic Church, the priest opening the door and the congregation finding a girl hanging, rather prissy girl who felt that she was a leader at school. There are later mysterious killing of a young boy who is on tablets. Then the heroine is threatened. The situation seems to be that each has a secret that they are trying to conceal that needs exposing.

For most of the film, the suspect seems to be the leading teenager’s boyfriend, brother of the sheriff. He looks suspicious, rather thin and weedy. He is even arrested. However, there is another character within the group, the son of the local entrepreneur for farm corn sales. He is the killer, sets the cornfield alight, murders his father, is completely resentful, hence the murders.

This is the kind of review where one says, if you like this kind of thing…