spacetime coordinates: 2010’s oceanside house in Oregon
The Rental is a 2020 American horror-thriller film directed by Dave Franco, in his directorial debut. It stars Dan Stevens, Alison Brie, Sheila Vand, Jeremy Allen White, and Toby Huss. (wiki)
‘Had the writing been deft enough to properly germinate them, there are seeds of ideas about the toxicity of aspirational real estate and those that indifferently own it that could have possibly have flowered into something worth exploring. “We are hoping to one day get a second home we never use,” says Charlie in one of the film’s very few memorable lines.’ review by Oliver Jones
A homeless ex-soldier in London is offered a place to stay at a decaying house, inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother, and begins to suspect something unnatural is living there, too.
Amulet is a 2020 British horror film written and directed by
David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter called the film “smart and stylish” and wrote: “Garai steadily builds suspense while keeping her intentions enigmatic until quite late in the action. She eventually folds together mysteries of the past with terrors of the present in an out-there final act that goes full-throttle Dario Argento, mixing digital and hand-made effects in a sea of garish reds and bizarre pagan visions.” (