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The Night House

2020 · Horror · David Bruckner · 1h 48m

A schoolteacher is left alone in the lake house her husband built for her after his sudden death, and starts finding things in it she cannot explain. A quiet film about grief with a lot of standing in the dark, listening.

  • Strongly intimate
  • Strongly heavy
  • Clearly character-driven

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