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Liana Liberato in The Beach House (2019)

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The Beach House

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6/10

An unnerving horror film with a Lovecraftian theme

  • exetercavern
  • 22 jul 2020
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6/10

Unexpectedly enjoyable

  • richardwworkman
  • 8 ene 2021
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5/10

What a Weird Movie!

Did you ever see a movie that you thought was pretty good, but that was so weird and out of nowhere that you weren't really quite sure how you were supposed to process it as a viewer?

The Beach House is one of the newer additions to Shudder, and, for the most part, it's a pretty standard horror movie. It's a slow burn about a young couple that go to (you guessed it!) a beach house for a romantic vacation together, only to find an older couple also staying at the beach house. For about half of the movie, things are okay - you're just watching a flawed relationship trying to fix itself and grow - but, when things go awry, they really go out with it.

This film has an uneasy feeling throughout. It gives off a vibe of unease, as though it were preparing the viewer for what is to come. There wasn't a moment of the film that I felt I could trust any particular characters, especially once the film really started revving its engine and working toward the final act.

There are a lot of tense moments in the film, which is one thing they pulled off really well. Where it lost me was in the plot, the way it suddenly (and I do mean suddenly) begins to get a little too sci-fi for my liking in a film like this. I'll give it credit for doing something different (it easily could've been very cliched) and trying to be its own thing, but it's an instance where I feel it, perhaps, tried a little too hard to be original and ended up being off-putting as the film went on.

That being said, credit needs to be given where it's due. Everyone acting in this film did a great job. The characters were relatable and believable. And the shots in this thing are absolutely stunning as well. The aesthetic of the film is eye-catching and beautiful throughout, which made it a film that was still enjoyable despite its faults.
  • baileycrawly
  • 11 jul 2020
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5/10

Some Entertainment Washes up on the Shore of The Beach House, yet it has Not Nearly Enough Horror or Explanation to be a Satisfying Horror Hit

The Beach House contains themes and ideas akin Prometheus, The Fog, Trespassers, The Creature Below and the more recent, The Color Out of Space, with a unique focus on astrobiology. Despite some of the aforementioned films listed, keep in mind this is very much an independent feature.

The film centers on Emily (Liana Liberato), who has returned to her boyfriend, Randall (Noah Le Gros). Their relationship is, shall we say, turbulent. To patch things up, he invites her to his family's beach house. Upon arrival however, it is not as vacant as they were led to believe, with Mitch (Jake Weber) and his wife, Jane (Maryann Nagel) currently occupying it. Unlike other creature-oriented thrillers, this does not lead to an all-out war of words. Instead, both couples calmly allow the other to stay. After some beach-side shenanigans, they begin to notice inexplicable phenomena happening in the area, resulting in, let's say, further weirdness.

The use of camera shots lingering on water and food, with a tense, foreboding non-diegetic soundtrack, adds to the movie's ominous appeal. Director Jeffrey A. Brown delightfully shows us beautiful wide angles of nature, before zooming in to show the potential threat hiding in plain sight, subtly growing the film's disturbing ambiance. Additionally, the use of ultra-violet fluorescent colors in some of the environments adds to the alien atmosphere, while the use of bright and grainy camera shots to show the affect the surrounds are having on characters is a nice touch.

The film is not particularly blood-thirsty; that said, the mild sequences of body horror are very effective and will leave anyone feeling squeamish. Similar to The Thing, The Beach House infuses the narrative with a fear of having the body physically invaded by another entity, while making us second guess everything we put into our stomachs.

The film is quite slow however, with the unease and tension creeping along. Brown demands his audience have patience, giving elusive clues that said patience will be rewarded. In a movie just over 80 minutes in length, it takes well over half of the run time before (to keep this review PG rated) crap gets real.

Emily never becomes a 'dragon slayer', instead using her scientific knowledge to solve some of the conflicts. At the same time though, she, and others, randomly make decisions that are typical silly horror movie clichés, which can seem glaringly contradictory.

For all of the credit I give to the horror aspects of the film, and despite the occasional grotesque nature of the content, it wasn't as terror-inducing as I was hoping for. This is caused by two factors.

One, characterization, or lack-of. In describing the main characters, I can say: Jane is ill; Mitch is a husband; Randall wants to spend his life vacationing; Emily wants to undertake a postgraduate science course and ummm....ummm....yeah, that's about it. I didn't know nearly enough about the characters to genuinely care about them when things went wrong. Combined with the occasional bizarre behavior and mild unease between the couples, it can be difficult to establish a close-bond with all of them as the film wants us to question whether everyone can be trusted. You can't have it both ways, film.

This is not helped by the addendum we are thrown straight into the deep end in the movie's opening. This is a daring move, and fits perfectly with Brown's aesthetic of show don't tell. I don't mind playing catch-up, yet there is so much merely alluded to, that it can be hard to clearly know things we ought to in the moment. Example, when Emily and Randall arrive, I had no idea if Mitch and Jane were supposed to be there or not, because it had not been established.

Second, there is no real sustained threat, as we don't concretely know what 'it' is. Again, I admire the use of show don't tell, and this fits perfectly with the Lovecraftian theme of the unknowable that Brown taps into. I understand, the less we know about something, the more we should fear it. To be frank though, all horror movies have rules. Example; in a slasher, we usually know; who is the bad guy; what are they doing; how will they do it. Maybe not the best comparison, but in this film, we see quite a lot, and yet none of it really fits. At the start of the movie we see an incomplete puzzle, and that is a good metaphor for the film's horror; there are lots of pieces, but there is no evolution to it.

The Beach House is a film that will leave you with a lot more questions than answers. It is not a movie that holds your hand, and so much of what is shown could be interpreted in over a dozen ways. This is a good thing, though this narrative decision will frustrate about as many viewers as it enthralls.
  • totalovrdose
  • 18 jul 2020
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7/10

Worths watching (for genre fans only)

If you're not into genre movies, this is not for you. And I am not talking about teenagers horrors films, that are filled with cheap jump scares and special effects, that actually don't work at all. This movie is for audiences that enjoy the ride of building an atmosphere, escalating this until you really are ready to its final destination. While this is not an unforgettable horror film, it will really catch your attention and makes you feel uncomfortable again and again from the beginning, where it depicts common yet weird social situations, till the climax and the conclusion of the story, with some scary dreamlike moments. Ignore the low rating given by some viewers and give to this movie a chance.
  • edson_garrido
  • 11 jul 2020
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3/10

Well, this was definitely something else...

As I stumbled upon the 2019 movie "The Beach House" in 2021, I had no idea what I was in for here. But I have to say that the movie's synopsis sounded interesting enough, so I opted to give writer and director Jeffrey A. Brown's movie a chance.

And while "The Beach House" started out adequately enough, the movie quickly shifted gears and went into a stalemate. For a long period of time as the storyline progressed, nothing happened. And I must admit that the movie was quickly starting to lose its grip on me as I grew bored. And then out of nowhere, writer and director Jeffrey A. Brown fully turns the movie around and things go from being bored to just being downright strange. And the events that started to happen, definitely had potential, but by then it was just too little, too late, and the damage had been irrevocably been done.

"The Beach House" was a movie of wasted potential. The storyline had some rather interesting elements to it, but the build up of the movie was just not working for me, and I ended up rather bored actually as the storyline went forward with snail speed.

The movie has a small cast ensemble, so there is an increased amount of pressure on the actors and actresses to deliver profound acting performances that will carry the movie. And I will say that the handful of actors and actresses in the movie actually managed to do rather well, especially with the severe limitations imposed on them by a lack of proper script and storyline. Liana Liberato carried the movie quite well, and it was definitely nice to see Jake Weber on the screen.

If writer and director Jeffrey A. Brown had introduced the strange events a lot earlier in the movie, then "The Beach House" would have been a much more enjoyable movie.

The ending of the movie was just one that was so cliché that it almost physically hurt to witness.

My rating of "The Beach House" lands on a mere three out of ten stars.
  • paul_m_haakonsen
  • 25 may 2021
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7/10

A good mix of ideas

The Beach House is a great little horror film that borrows from many other films and books of renown authors like Stephen King and H. P. Lovecraft, there are some elements of Cronenberg's trademark body horror and more.

I don't want to spoil too much, so I'll just go ahead and recommend this film to horror fans, it is well-made and all the ideas that they have borrowed really work in this story.

This film was a pleasant surprise for me since I didn't expect much, and they delivered more than I hoped for.
  • kuarinofu
  • 9 ago 2020
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5/10

True horror is a boring conversation you can't escape

  • ChrisInMiami
  • 27 jun 2020
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7/10

Above Average Environmental Body Horror

The Beach House's relatively short runtime is filled with a sense of impending doom. It's slow to get started, but once the infection begins the film manages to offer up enough dread to keep you locked in. Well-acted and plenty of eerie atmosphere. Overall, this turned out to be a pleasant surprise. It's far from perfect and suffers from a few cliches and dumb character moments. There is one particular reveal in the last block that disturbed me. I always find the scariest films revolve around body horror and what Mother Nature could have in store for us. I highly recommend watching something a little more upbeat after you finish it. The film has managed to stay on my mind the last few days.
  • brettkins
  • 22 abr 2024
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2/10

Snooze fest

  • martynfoster-27400
  • 9 jul 2020
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8/10

Enough originality for me to forgive the clichés

The beach house adheres to a lot of the classical sci-fi and horror tropes, it's reminiscent of alien and the mist. But it manages to surprise you enough to keep you entertained and tense. The special effects are well done, the creatures mysterious but familiar enough to make you believe they could exist. The strong female lead and the aesthetics are a plus.
  • valemas
  • 22 sept 2019
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6/10

Creepy but messy

This is a genuinely creepy low budget horror but the horror is held back by a confusing series of plot points and ideas that are never really tied together. A young couple heads to a family beach house to get away from things only to find an older couple also staying there. They get along okay until a series of strange events seems to lead to an unexplained infection that slowly progresses through the group. Things get a little trippy and the viewer faces the same struggles as the characters finding it difficult to know what is real. There are various possible sources for the infection and its unclear whether they are interconnected or unrelated. One characters explanation of her study goals seems like some Obvious exposition to educate the viewer on a possible source of the infection. The cast were fairly good and they helped to build the creepiness but the direction left things a little too confusing for real horror to build. Worth a watch but could have been better.
  • nashw82
  • 11 dic 2020
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5/10

It was fine

It was kinda cool at times. We compromised and we will give it a 5. There were some okay scenes. Tiny twist, maybe. Not a great ending. But oh well. It was really fine, if you wanna watch it you might enjoy it. It was somewhat enjoyable.
  • saphira_dragon-80270
  • 27 jul 2020
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3/10

Much like one of the lead characters Randall, you'll wish you were sleeping or doing edibles instead of watching this...

  • horrorbladesreviews
  • 12 jul 2020
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7/10

The Fog + Rabid = The Beach House

The reviews for this movie are incredibly inconsistent. However it seems like people are agreeing about certain aspects. Everyone seems to agree with the sentiment that the movie is a slow burn. I personally found the first half of the film to be interesting and it increasingly built tension. Others will say it was boring.

The film is also being hammered on for being mysterious and accused of offering no real explanation as to why certain things are happening. Not true, there are several scenes/conversations that offer theories and possible answers to what is happening. However, the theories are presented indirectly. I personally found the explanations interesting enough.

The climax of the film is ultimately why I recommend this movie. Around the 50 minute mark is when this film separates itself from the pack. There are 2 horrific set pieces in particular that are extremely well shot and present genuine creepy imagery.
  • Hawk_Jones
  • 13 jul 2020
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2/10

A movie that just sort of sleepily slouches around

  • S_Soma
  • 23 jul 2020
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7/10

A patient film with all the pay-off

'The Beach House' is the perfect type of film to know as little about as possible before going in. I knew basically nothing about it and it made it an absolute treat. Some could call the first half of the film slow, and they'd probably be right, but I loved it. It did what so few horror movies do and took the time to let us care about the characters and their fate. For a cast of relative unknowns I thought the cast were terrific. The main couple were nothing flashy, but they were likeable and realistic enough to get onboard with.

The film features some very clever foreshadowing. It was hard to fully appreciate all of it at the time, whilst knowing so little about what the future of the film had in store, but in retrospect it was very clever. I really didn't know what direction the film was going to go in. It holds its cards close to its chest for quite a while. The path that it does ultimately go down has not always been my favourite genre of film in the past, but I really liked the way 'The Beach House' went about it.

The film has a very strange ending, that I think makes sense, but I also suspect is not going to be to everyone's liking. It was a bold way to end the film though, and like it or not you should at least give it respect for that much. I had a good time with 'The Beach House' and would recommend it as one to check out.
  • jtindahouse
  • 19 jul 2020
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4/10

Nothing new

Not for me; it would have made an enjoyable 45 minute Black Mirror episode. The somewhat predictable downbeat ending, found in so many Horrors these days (not much horror), has practical effects (though limited).
  • ropelawshiel
  • 10 jul 2020
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7/10

Bad acting, good horror

The movie doesn't have the best actors, but in my book it delivers on what matters most in a horror flick: pure atmosphere. The descent into horror is gradual, disturbing. Watch this if you like indie horror movies like Underwater, Color Out of Space, Sea Fever.
  • lotheravanti
  • 30 jul 2020
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2/10

Great Value ver of Color Out Of Space

Honestly there isn't much to say about this one, but having wasted the time to sit through the whole thing I desire the slight vindication of a review. This movie is basically the recent (and very well done) Color Out Of Space if every aspect of it sucked. The Beach House technically falls into the category of "slow burn" due to languid pacing, yet instead of the fire growing into a worthy second or final act, it just fizzles out. Along with the pacing, the dialogue is atrocious & simplistic, and the acting is somehow even worse. The male lead is one of the worst actors I've ever seen, as in Birdemic level. In order to dress up an otherwise bland film, there are a bunch of pretentious "art exhibit" style shots of the sea & water & related things which add nothing beyond trying to fool you into thinking that this movie can't be bland because it's DEEP (spoiler: it's not). The accompanying music follows suit- it's that annoying sort of art documentary noisy drone written by someone who used to write an actual genre of music but has gotten older and pretentious so now they write "abstract" music devoid of musicality because they have evolved past simpleton ideas like "music theory" and "sounding good". Nothing is explained or expounded upon, and so the movie is simply a series of events that just sort of happen arbitrarily, most of them lacking any purpose or connection to other scenes. The first part of the movie is about the two main characters at a beach house (there is some muddled dialogue about what is going on with the house and who it belongs to which makes you think there might be something sinister afoot, but it actually doesn't matter in any way). Other than the girl having to pull a worm thing out of her foot (why? where did it come from? what are the rules of this infection/infestation? who knows!), nothing of substance happens. There are some psychedelic scenes with elements that are sort of interesting, but none of it is given any context nor does it tie into later events so...who cares. Towards the middle of the movie you will have lost interest and inevitably pulled out your phone and started browsing facebook. You won't have committed much of the first part to memory, but it's fine because almost none of it matters, nor does it move the plot forward in any meaningful way. After a while you'll notice something seems to have started to happen which brings us to the climax of the movie. In the final act the couple leaves the house and there is lot of fog accompanied by flashing lights. People start turning into zombies or whatever and we get some body horror which again is a much lesser version of Color Out Of Space. There were some cool and gross ideas, but due to the low budget those scenes are super short and the prosthetics & effects are so obviously fake that they lose their visceral intensity. Also, up to that point the movie was so unimpressive that I just couldn't bring myself to care what was happening. No explanation is ever given for what unfolds, where it came from, or why. The characters crawl around for a while and then the movie is over. The last shot is so terrible and such a perfect example of "we have no idea how to write an ending so just make one character repeat an arbitrary line of dialogue a bunch of times because it makes it DEEP". In the end, this is a pretty bland, amateur film that is neither brainy nor profound. It's not mysterious, it's just written badly and lacked the budget for convincing visuals. The only thing deep is the amount of reaching necessary to describe this as "cosmic" or "lovecraftian". I guess you could say that at it's very core, the fundamental idea here was good, but the delivery was incredibly lacking. Overall, this is typical Shudder trash and the prevalence of this type of movie on the site is exactly why I cancelled my subscription.
  • wormsoftheerth
  • 14 jul 2020
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8/10

Slow burn start and nice atmosphere.

I don't know the budget on this movie but it probably wasn't huge. They spent it well. The first half of the movie builds atmosphere and character. Then it takes off and doesn't let up until it's over. There cast is small, and they only use a few locations to shoot, but it looks good and the acting is good. The special effects are practical and used sparingly. The is some well-done body horror and the connections to the Lovecraft mythos is apparent but not overdone. There aren't a lot of jump scares. I really enjoyed it.
  • cjfarley-65939
  • 8 jul 2020
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7/10

A slowburn cosmic sea story

I dont know that this movie was really marketed properly if I'm being honest. I caught it on Shudder, but if you're a horror fan just in it for the viscera, you may be disappointed.

I really liked this film, the acting and direction were mostly great, and the cinematography really shines. This is a spooky slowburn suited for fans of movies like Color Out Of Space who are more interested in an eerie mood than gobs of guts. There is some body horror but it isn't overdone.

It may not make my list of top ten movies of the year, but I'd say top 15 for sure
  • renee-williams-893-592930
  • 11 jul 2020
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1/10

Absolute trash

No story, no script, no nothing. Some weird thing happened to some uninteresting people in a beach house while they where doing drugs. That's it. Save your time and literally go watch anything else. It's as much of a slow burner as watching a candle burner is as interesting.
  • joaosantos20
  • 13 jul 2020
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1/10

Have you ever watch a movie where you rolled your eyes all the way throughout the entire movie?

The Beach House is THAT movie. I can't help but to roll my eyes every time the characters started speaking. It has a very awkward script and the characters' reactions felt not genuine. No explanation as to what actually happened in the movie, everything is just so sudden. I hate it, thanks.
  • aleslana
  • 13 jul 2020
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7/10

A creepy low budget horror film ruined by the runtime n abrupt ending. Was it the Thermophiles? Naegleria fowleri or guinea worms?

This cud have been a good 45 mins short film a la Neil Blomkamp's short film like Zygote n others but i dont know y the filmmaker filled it up with tedious scenes n boring chit chat. A young man takes his girlfriend to his dad's beach house to spend some quality time and finds it peaceful when they dont encounter any neighbors around but they r surprised to encounter an older couple inside their house. The four fellas smoke pot n enjoy the nite with music but r unaware of a mysterious infection spreading around. The film starts off slow but keeps u engrossed as one gets curious to kno what is the reason of the infection n how it will end. But many will get annoyed as the reason is never explained properly apart from the turbulence inside the ocean causing the organisms to come up. Another very annoying thing is the abrupt ending. The fog scene n the trees getting bluish is a bit silly. There is a very creepy scene that will have ur skin crawling, a la Guinea worm... I liked the film as i love reading about microorganisms n a fan of movies based on infections but i will not recommend it as it has nothing new to offer, suspense n tension is missing n forget about any kills.
  • Fella_shibby
  • 13 jul 2020
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