Review of The Night House (2021) by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly — 26 Aug 2021
Though the bag of tricks that Bruckner (V/H/S, The Ritual) digs through — the jump scares and shadow figures, the eerily suspended rules of gravity and physics — are familiar, he uses them to build a kind of clanging, feverish atmosphere.
And British actress Hall (The Gift, Godzilla vs. Kong), tasked with carrying nearly every scene, grounds her performance in more than meat-puppet panic; her unraveling springs from genuine, furious grief.
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This review of The Night House (2021) was written by Leah Greenblatt and published by Entertainment Weekly on 26 Aug 2021.
The Night House has generally received positive reviews.
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