The Night House

The Night House (2021) is David Bruckner's slow-burn horror film, ready to watch online on iFILM. Rebecca Hall plays Beth, a schoolteacher left alone in the lakeside house her husband built, days after he took his own life without warning or explanation.

Grief turns into something colder once the dreams start. She hears footsteps, sees shapes in the dark, and then finds blueprints for a second house, an exact mirror image of her own hidden across the water. Digging through his things, Beth uncovers women who look just like her, occult books, and a man she's no longer sure she knew at all. What was he building, and what was he keeping away from her?

A British-American production, this one trades cheap jump scares for dread built out of negative space and the things you only half-see at the edge of a room. Hall holds nearly every scene on her own, and her raw, furious grief is what makes the haunting land. Stream The Night House (2021) online on iFILM.