The Beach House: Worth a Watch?
You may come to Shudder's new original The Beach House expecting Cabin Fever, but the end result is decidedly more Colour out of Space. But is the sci-fi contagion freak out worth a watch ? A note on spoilers - The hits and misses sections are completely spoiler free zones. If you've seen the film, scroll down to the cliché count to see which horror topes we're dealing with and the questions and theories section to find out what the hell happened in the final scene. The Beach House' s hits We don't often get hard sci-fi in horror - but the central concept of the movie rivals the ideas in Annihilation and Coherence and is pretty intiguing. It's an intimate story with cosmic implications. The film is full of surprises and some of the directions it takes are completely unexpected. First-time director Jeffrey A. Brown told Film Festival Today he 'didn’t want the viewer to anticipate what the next scene was going to be' - and he's...