There's Someone Inside Your House (2021)
Directed by Patrick Brice
As the countdown to graduation begins, students at Osborne High are being stalked by a maniac intent on exposing their darkest secrets to the entire town, terrorizing victims while wearing a life-like mask of their own face. With a mysterious past of her own, Makani and her friends must discover the killer's identity before they become victims themselves.
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We have elements of this film that may remind some of I Know What You Did Last Summer, even down to the title that doubles as an entire sentence, but we also have a wry sense of humor that occasionally works its way throughout the film.
There’s Someone Inside Your House may not be quite as slick with the metafiction as Craven’s Scream , but we do get that vein of self-awareness at times, such as when Alex references I Know What You Did Last Summer during the big party.
The 90s were home to a specific breed of slasher with films like Scream (1996), I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), and Urban Legend (1998) featuring intended targets who are both youthful and overly aware and themes that tease social commentary and a newfound morality.
And the streaming service’s latest, There’s Someone Inside Your House , is similarly indebted to films like Black Christmas , Haze , and I Know What You Did Last Summer , which it explicitly references.
That’s right, There’s Somone Inside Your House is basically I Know What You Did Last Summer , but the sins in question are football-team hazing, drug addiction, and somehow running a white supremacist podcast without anyone thinking that your voice might sound similar to the valedictorian of the local high school.
A derivative slasher flick with elements lifted from “Scream” (1996) and “The Hunt” (2020) but sans any of their genre-defining resonance.
The 90s were home to a specific breed of slasher with films like Scream (1996), I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), and Urban Legend (1998) featuring intended targets who are both youthful and overly aware and themes that tease social commentary and a newfound morality.
The film, based on the book of the same name by Stephanie Perkins, takes inspiration from several other slasher movies (the most obvious being Scream ) but plays on more modern fears as well.
The Fear Street series nods so often at Scream , Friday the 13th , and The Witch that it fell short in developing an identity of its own.
Patrick Brice’s slasher adaptation There’s Someone Inside Your House could snugly fit into the '90s subgenre boom post- Scream when teenage wasteland slashers were all the rage.
The ‘self-aware slasher’ was popularised after Wes Craven’s Scream changed the sub-genre forever in the 1990s, spawning tons of less than worthy successors to the master’s throne.
Directed by Patrick Brice (“Creep”), co-produced by James Wan (“Saw,” “Aquaman”) and set in small-town Nebraska (adapted from Stephanie Perkins’ novel), the film opens with a high school football jock getting stalked and slashed in his house.