Let me start by saying that this is a weird one, everything, even the characters, are just plain weird. This is yet another movie that is hit by the curse of having an interesting plot on paper but ends up being stumped by its execution. I don't understand how this is being rated so highly.
The film starts off in a familiar way, a young couple arriving at a holiday home in the hope of forgetting about the reality of day to day life. That soon turns sour when they realise there are others in the house that already had the same idea as them. Every single character in this production is dull, boring and lifeless, a lot like the movie itself. Randall (Noah Le Gros) spends the majority of the film stoned and sleeping (I wish I did). Mitch (Jake Weber) is just downright creepy. Emily (Liana Liberato) is just about the only character that you'll end up caring about, probably just out of sympathy that she's stuck in a house with these unnerving people.
It's an understatement to say The Beach House is a slow burner. The film doesn't get anywhere near interesting until the latter quarter of the film. When it does, it's very confusing. The conflict seems to happen so quickly that you don't really have the time to process it and that's not necessarily a good thing here. You can clearly see what the writers are trying to portray but it just isn't executed very well at all. It tries so hard to build an uneasy atmosphere throughout, while only slightly succeeding and then getting let down by the climax.
The best scenes in this movie also turn out to be the most violent and gruesome ones. If there were more of them, it'd certainly be a little more gripping. The ending doesn't really conclude anything, nor does it add anything to the movie. It was disappointing, like the rest of the production.
This is yet another film where it would have paid off a lot more if the producers went for a different genre (drama or sci-fi) and didn't portray it as a horror film. There's only a couple instances of horror and they get lost in between the rest of the mind numbing production. This seems to be a trend for quite a few films being released in 2020 at the moment.
So the moral of the story, kids - stay away from the beach, out of the ocean and never do edibles. If you've seen this already, you'll know what I mean. If not, stay clear.
The film starts off in a familiar way, a young couple arriving at a holiday home in the hope of forgetting about the reality of day to day life. That soon turns sour when they realise there are others in the house that already had the same idea as them. Every single character in this production is dull, boring and lifeless, a lot like the movie itself. Randall (Noah Le Gros) spends the majority of the film stoned and sleeping (I wish I did). Mitch (Jake Weber) is just downright creepy. Emily (Liana Liberato) is just about the only character that you'll end up caring about, probably just out of sympathy that she's stuck in a house with these unnerving people.
It's an understatement to say The Beach House is a slow burner. The film doesn't get anywhere near interesting until the latter quarter of the film. When it does, it's very confusing. The conflict seems to happen so quickly that you don't really have the time to process it and that's not necessarily a good thing here. You can clearly see what the writers are trying to portray but it just isn't executed very well at all. It tries so hard to build an uneasy atmosphere throughout, while only slightly succeeding and then getting let down by the climax.
The best scenes in this movie also turn out to be the most violent and gruesome ones. If there were more of them, it'd certainly be a little more gripping. The ending doesn't really conclude anything, nor does it add anything to the movie. It was disappointing, like the rest of the production.
This is yet another film where it would have paid off a lot more if the producers went for a different genre (drama or sci-fi) and didn't portray it as a horror film. There's only a couple instances of horror and they get lost in between the rest of the mind numbing production. This seems to be a trend for quite a few films being released in 2020 at the moment.
So the moral of the story, kids - stay away from the beach, out of the ocean and never do edibles. If you've seen this already, you'll know what I mean. If not, stay clear.