«The Night House» is a 2020 psychological horror film directed by David Bruckner.
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- The Night House is a 2020 psychological horror film.
- It was directed by David Bruckner.
- It was written by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski.
- The film stars Rebecca Hall as a widow who discovers a dark secret about the house her recently deceased architect husband built.
- Other cast members include Sarah Goldberg, Evan Jonigkeit, Stacy Martin, and Vondie Curtis-Hall.
- The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2020.
- It was theatrically released in the United States on August 20, 2021, by Searchlight Pictures.
- It received positive reviews and was nominated for two Critics’ Choice Super Awards.
- In February 2019, it was announced that Rebecca Hall would star in the film, with David Bruckner directing from a screenplay by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski.
- David S. Goyer is the producer.
- Principal photography began in May 2019 in Syracuse, New York.
- Shortly thereafter, Searchlight Pictures acquired distribution rights.
- It was scheduled to be released on July 16, 2021.
- It was then rescheduled for August 20, 2021.
- The film was released on digital platforms on October 5, 2021, with selected streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
- It was released on BluRay and DVD on October 19, 2021, by Walt Disney Home Entertainment.
- One of the bonus features of the BluRay and DVD release is a behind-the-scenes featurette, What Happens at the Lake House?.
- It premiered on HBO Max on April 8, 2022.
- As of February 27, 2022, The Night House has grossed $7.1 million in the United States and Canada.
- It has grossed $8.4 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $15.5 million.
- In the United States and Canada, The Night House was released paired with Reminiscence, PAW Patrol: The Movie, and The Protégé, and the limited release of Flag Day.
- It was projected to gross around $2–3 million from 2,150 theaters in its opening weekend.
- It made $1.1 million its first day and went on to debut to $2.9 million, finishing eighth at the box office.
- It fell 57% in its second weekend to $1.2 million
- When 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.
- A caerdroia is a Welsh turf maze, usually in the sevenfold Cretan labyrinth design. They were created by shepherds on hilltops and were apparently the setting for ritual dances, the nature of which has been lost.
- With its mainly practical effects, Rebecca Hall found the film a refreshing change after all the green-screen work she had done on Godzilla vs Kong (2021).
- In the bar scene early on where Beth, Claire, Gary and Heather are discussing a book about how to engage and inspire their students, Claire responds, “yeah, just let them stand up on their desks or whatever, change their lives”. This likely comes from Dead Poet’s Society (1989), in which a motivated teacher, Mr. Keating (Robin Williams), has his students literally stand on their desks, among other things, to try and change their lives.
- There are some similarities between this film and another of Rebecca Hall’s – «Awakening» (2011).
- In the very end of the movie the invisible being following the protagonist can be seen sitting on the boat. Its silhouette created by the ripples in the lake
