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A messy but occasionally effective horror-thriller with a strong late-game payoff. The premise leans into creepy institutional dread, foster-care trauma, and a campy, increasingly unhinged tone, but the execution is uneven and often feels undercooked until the final stretch.
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Thu · 1h 35m
Director: James DeMonaco
Starring: Pete Davidson, John Glover, Mugga
A troubled man starts working at a retirement home and realizes its residents and caretakers harbor sinister secrets. As he investigates the building and its forbidden fourth floor, he starts to uncover connections to his own past and upbringing as a foster child.
James DeMonaco
Pete Davidson, John Glover, Mugga
A messy but occasionally effective horror-thriller with a strong late-game payoff. The premise leans into creepy institutional dread, foster-care trauma, and a campy, increasingly unhinged tone, but the execution is uneven and often feels undercooked until the final stretch.
The Home is the kind of horror movie that seems to be running on fumes for much of its runtime, then suddenly remembers what it wants to be. The setup is familiar but effective: a damaged outsider enters a decaying institution, and the building itself becomes a pressure cooker for secrets, rot, and buried identity trauma. That fourth-floor mystery gives the film its best hook, even when the script feels clumsy or obvious.
What keeps it watchable is the atmosphere and the willingness to go weird. The movie clearly wants to be a mix of social unease, body-horror-adjacent grotesquerie, and late-stage camp, and the audience response suggests the ending is where it finally clicks. Before that, though, it can feel flat, repetitive, and oddly detached from its own emotional stakes.
If you’re in the mood for a horror-thriller that plays like a rough draft of a much better movie, this can still be a decent ride. It’s more interesting as a strange, messy artifact than as a fully satisfying genre piece, but the final stretch gives it just enough personality to avoid being a total write-off.
bananasandblow (4★) · 1033 likes
The last 10 minutes redeem the first 80 in a way I have never before witnessed.
allain♡ · 632 likes
of all people to drain their essence from, they chose pete davidson… bro looked drained already like c’mon now
danny (1★) · 514 likes
so no poopy diaper?
Kylo (2.5★) · 459 likes
Pete Davidson meets horror with the enthusiasm of someone waiting for their Uber.
Haunted Hippie (2.5★) · 365 likes
Everyone wants to have their goddamn naked old people A24 moment and not everyone should get one!
A decaying institutional setting, psychological unraveling, and creeping dread make it a strong match for the same kind of haunted-building unease.
Combines elder-care horror with escalating grotesquerie and emotional unease in a way that fans of sinister retirement-home stories may appreciate.
A family-institution horror setup with a sharp tonal shift into grotesque, uneasy fun.
For viewers drawn to sealed-off spaces, hidden identities, and a mystery that slowly curdles into horror.
Cold, isolating atmosphere and trauma-driven psychological horror with a bleak, unstable mood.
A grief-soaked horror story where emotional damage and supernatural menace feed each other.
A character study that turns inward, building dread through isolation, obsession, and spiritual rot.
A mystery of grief and hidden truths, with a strong sense of architectural unease and emotional fallout.
Starts from a simple property mystery and keeps mutating into something stranger, meaner, and more chaotic.
A deeply unsettling family horror film about aging, memory loss, and domestic decay.
A haunted-house mystery with strong emotional undercurrents and a focus on buried family history.
Classic haunted-house investigation with institutional grief, old secrets, and a patient, ominous build.
institutional horror, foster care trauma, buried past, sinister secrets, old-age dread, camp horror, mystery thriller, identity and memory
horror, thriller, mystery, camp, psychological dread, institutional setting, body horror, trauma, dark comedy, 2020s