I found this weird little film pretty unnerving.
Essentially it's a riff on Lovecraft's short horror story The Colour Out Of Space (1927), where a crashed meteorite poisons the air, driving animals and people mad, and deforming them into into grotesque shapes. In The Beach House (2019) the poison comes from a fissure deep at the bottom of the ocean, but the hallucinogenic spores it releases have the same effect of rapidly people and driving them insane as HPL's cosmic source.
Part of the reason the film intrigued me was its (probably accidental) parallel with Covid. (I had a bad time with the virus, and many of the affects descried in the film, such as experiencing weird scents, having hallucinations and difficulty breathing were very familiar)
I realise I'm in a minority, but I did like this film. The abrupt ending didn't bother me... and I thought the acting was fairly engaging. Certainly worth giving a go.
Essentially it's a riff on Lovecraft's short horror story The Colour Out Of Space (1927), where a crashed meteorite poisons the air, driving animals and people mad, and deforming them into into grotesque shapes. In The Beach House (2019) the poison comes from a fissure deep at the bottom of the ocean, but the hallucinogenic spores it releases have the same effect of rapidly people and driving them insane as HPL's cosmic source.
Part of the reason the film intrigued me was its (probably accidental) parallel with Covid. (I had a bad time with the virus, and many of the affects descried in the film, such as experiencing weird scents, having hallucinations and difficulty breathing were very familiar)
I realise I'm in a minority, but I did like this film. The abrupt ending didn't bother me... and I thought the acting was fairly engaging. Certainly worth giving a go.