Why ‘The Night House’ Won’t Keep You Up at Night as Promised

David Bruckner’s “The Night House” is a major bummer, yet another film that teases far more than it delivers and wastes the enormous talent of Rebecca Hall.

When we meet Beth (played by Hall), she’s grieving the suicide of her husband and well past caring what others think of her inability to keep it together. While meeting the parent of a student who she gave a C grade, Beth loses her patience, no longer resorting to verbal niceties and just gives the kid the grade she wants (it’s a great scene).

While staying at her late husband’s home by the lake, Beth begins to suspect the place is haunted, though there are books, pictures and other clues left behind that suggest something even wilder.

“The Night House” plays like an odd blend of the sudsy “The Lake House”...

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Aug 21st 2021
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