Shopworn concept improved by up-and-coming actor Odessa A’zion, who is insanely watchable in director Jerren Lauder’s American gothic tale
Director Jerren Lauder has levelled up his directing skills considerably since his debut feature, Stay Out of the F**king Attic from 2020. Sure, the jump-scares, body-hopping demons and gore-letting represent the usual dime-store theatrics you expect from low-budget scare-’em-ups. But there’s a lot more finesse here in the telling of the backstory, as well as an unsettling moody soundtrack by Sanford Parker, and a sense of menace lurking around every corner in the bland suburban setting; together it evokes indie “elevated horror” features such as It Follows. But the component that really kicks The Inhabitant up a notch is the lead performance from young Odessa A’zion, who is insanely watchable as Tara, a troubled teenager in her final year of high school living with her lower-middle-class parents, Emily...
Director Jerren Lauder has levelled up his directing skills considerably since his debut feature, Stay Out of the F**king Attic from 2020. Sure, the jump-scares, body-hopping demons and gore-letting represent the usual dime-store theatrics you expect from low-budget scare-’em-ups. But there’s a lot more finesse here in the telling of the backstory, as well as an unsettling moody soundtrack by Sanford Parker, and a sense of menace lurking around every corner in the bland suburban setting; together it evokes indie “elevated horror” features such as It Follows. But the component that really kicks The Inhabitant up a notch is the lead performance from young Odessa A’zion, who is insanely watchable as Tara, a troubled teenager in her final year of high school living with her lower-middle-class parents, Emily...
- 8/8/2023
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Stars: Odessa A’zion, Michael Cooper Jr., Lizze Broadway, Dermot Mulroney, Mary Buss, Kenneisha Thompson, Ryan Francis | Written by Kevin Bachar | Directed by Jerren Lauder
The Inhabitant opens with a series of title cards, some over photos of the victims, telling the viewer the story of Lizzy Borden and allegations of possession and a family curse that seems to persist to the present day passed down among her female descendants.
Tara is stressed out. Her boyfriend Carl is planning on attending college at Stanford. Even worse, her home life is a mess, something not even her best friend Suzy can help her deal with. She’s had past issues with depression which has her parents Ben and Emily concerned. That’s not entirely her fault though, she has a newborn brother, and her mother’s sister Diane was committed to an institution for smothering a newborn and burying the body, and...
The Inhabitant opens with a series of title cards, some over photos of the victims, telling the viewer the story of Lizzy Borden and allegations of possession and a family curse that seems to persist to the present day passed down among her female descendants.
Tara is stressed out. Her boyfriend Carl is planning on attending college at Stanford. Even worse, her home life is a mess, something not even her best friend Suzy can help her deal with. She’s had past issues with depression which has her parents Ben and Emily concerned. That’s not entirely her fault though, she has a newborn brother, and her mother’s sister Diane was committed to an institution for smothering a newborn and burying the body, and...
- 8/4/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
In addition to Hulu’s Hellraiser, Odessa A’zion will also be seen in horror movie The Inhabitant this Halloween season, with Gravitas Ventures planning a theatrical release in October.
Deadline reports today that Gravitas has acquired North American rights to The Inhabitant, “slating it for release in over 100 theaters on October 7, 2022.”
Leslie Bibb (Mrs. American Pie), Dermot Mulroney (Umma) and Lizze Broadway (The Rookie) also star in the movie from director Jerren Lauder (Stay Out of the F**king Attic).
The film follows “Tara (A’zion), who like any other teenage girl, is just surviving high school — yet her father Ben (Mulroney) and mother Emily (Bibb) seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome axe murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her to question her own sanity and shocking ancestry.
“After a visit to her aunt in a mental asylum and a night in Lizzie Borden’s actual home,...
Deadline reports today that Gravitas has acquired North American rights to The Inhabitant, “slating it for release in over 100 theaters on October 7, 2022.”
Leslie Bibb (Mrs. American Pie), Dermot Mulroney (Umma) and Lizze Broadway (The Rookie) also star in the movie from director Jerren Lauder (Stay Out of the F**king Attic).
The film follows “Tara (A’zion), who like any other teenage girl, is just surviving high school — yet her father Ben (Mulroney) and mother Emily (Bibb) seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome axe murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her to question her own sanity and shocking ancestry.
“After a visit to her aunt in a mental asylum and a night in Lizzie Borden’s actual home,...
- 8/30/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Exclusive: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to The Inhabitant, the horror film starring Odessa A’zion (Hulu’s Hellraiser), Leslie Bibb (Mrs. American Pie), Dermot Mulroney (Umma) and Lizze Broadway (The Rookie), slating it for release October 7 in more than 100 theaters. Highland Film Group is handling international rights, with sales being launched at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival.
The film from director Jerren Lauder (Stay Out of the F**king Attic) follows Tara (A’zion), who like any other teenage girl is just surviving high school — yet her father Ben (Mulroney) and mother Emily (Bibb) seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome ax murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her to question her own sanity and shocking ancestry. After a visit to her aunt in a mental asylum and a night in Lizzie Borden’s actual home, Tara realizes she is inextricably tied to the horrifying...
The film from director Jerren Lauder (Stay Out of the F**king Attic) follows Tara (A’zion), who like any other teenage girl is just surviving high school — yet her father Ben (Mulroney) and mother Emily (Bibb) seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome ax murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her to question her own sanity and shocking ancestry. After a visit to her aunt in a mental asylum and a night in Lizzie Borden’s actual home, Tara realizes she is inextricably tied to the horrifying...
- 8/30/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Hello, everyone! We have a brand new batch of horror and sci-fi home media releases, and all things considered, it’s a relatively quiet week of genre goodness headed our way on Tuesday. For all you Goblin King fans out there, Sony is celebrating Labyrinth’s 35th anniversary with a brand new 4K release, and for those of you who enjoy John McNaughton’s work, Scream Factory is showing some love to The Borrower as well.
Other Blu-ray & DVD releases for August 17th include Stay Out of the Attic, The Maid, Shook, and A Discovery of Witches: Season 2.
The Borrower
From the creative mind of director John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer) comes an eerie tale of an alien killer sentenced to live the rest of his days on Earth for committing unspeakable crimes. The strange insect-like creature arrives in a lone spaceship. When he arrives on our planet,...
Other Blu-ray & DVD releases for August 17th include Stay Out of the Attic, The Maid, Shook, and A Discovery of Witches: Season 2.
The Borrower
From the creative mind of director John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer) comes an eerie tale of an alien killer sentenced to live the rest of his days on Earth for committing unspeakable crimes. The strange insect-like creature arrives in a lone spaceship. When he arrives on our planet,...
- 8/16/2021
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Striving to improve their lives can ultimately lead people to make decisions that initially appear to be beneficial to their futures, but ultimately end up causing them more harm than good. That’s certainly the case for the former prisoners in the horror movie, ‘Stay Out of the Attic,’ who take on a new job to […]
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- 8/10/2021
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
Jerren Lauder's horror flick Stay Out of The Attic has been playing on Shudder, AMC Networks' horror streaming service. If you are not subscribed to the service (why the hell not!?!), or, you want a physical copy of the horror flick on your own your next chance to catch it will be on August 17th. Rlje Films will release Stay Out of The Attic on VOD, Digital, DVD and Blu-ray on that day. A diverse group of ex-cons-turned-movers—played by Morgan Alexandria (Forever My Girl), Ryan Francis (Sisters) and Bryce Fernelius (Ruling of the Heart)—are convinced by their creepy client, Vern Muller, to pull an all-nighter for a generous pay bump. As the night progresses and rooms are cleared, they slowly...
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- 7/16/2021
- Screen Anarchy
Stars: Ryan Francis, Morgan Alexandria, Bryce Fernelius, Michael Flynn, Brynne Hurlbutt, Avery Pizzuto, Garrett McClellan | Written and Directed by Jerren Lauder
A diverse group of ex-cons-turned-movers; Schillinger (Ryan Francis), Imani (Morgan Alexandria) and Carlos (Bryce Fernelius); are convinced by their creepy client, Vern (Michael Flynn), to pull an all-nighter for a generous pay bump. As the night progresses and rooms are cleared, they slowly uncover the horrors that exist inside his old Victorian mansion, including boobytraps, human experimentation, Nazi monsters and more…
Nazis. Never really gone away have they? Literally and figuratively. Genre films have often mined that particularly nasty brand of human being for horrific effect – from the evils of Nazi zombies in films like JJ Abrams’ Overlord, or more low-budget fare such as Dead Snow and the Outpost franchise; to the sinister human experimentation of The Boys From Brazil. In Stay Out of the F**king Attic we get all that and more,...
A diverse group of ex-cons-turned-movers; Schillinger (Ryan Francis), Imani (Morgan Alexandria) and Carlos (Bryce Fernelius); are convinced by their creepy client, Vern (Michael Flynn), to pull an all-nighter for a generous pay bump. As the night progresses and rooms are cleared, they slowly uncover the horrors that exist inside his old Victorian mansion, including boobytraps, human experimentation, Nazi monsters and more…
Nazis. Never really gone away have they? Literally and figuratively. Genre films have often mined that particularly nasty brand of human being for horrific effect – from the evils of Nazi zombies in films like JJ Abrams’ Overlord, or more low-budget fare such as Dead Snow and the Outpost franchise; to the sinister human experimentation of The Boys From Brazil. In Stay Out of the F**king Attic we get all that and more,...
- 3/30/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Jumpscares, gruesome interludes and gross-out moments abound but there is little finesse – only unintended guffaws
Ex-con Schillinger (Ryan Francis) has been out of the big house long enough to start up his own business as a removal man, and has just hired two more employees, also prison alumni: tough Imani (Morgan Alexandria) and her friend, soft-spoken new father Carlos (Bryce Fernelius). All three have pasts they would like to put in the rear-view mirror of the moving van. But an offer from a creepy old man (Michael Flynn) with a German accent to do a quick overnight cash job will expose each person’s dark secrets and vulnerabilities, including piquing their perfectly natural curiosity when he tells them to shift everything in the mansion but stay out, per the title, of the attic. And the basement for that matter, but presumably director Jerren Lauder and his producers agreed Stay Out of the F**king Attic...
Ex-con Schillinger (Ryan Francis) has been out of the big house long enough to start up his own business as a removal man, and has just hired two more employees, also prison alumni: tough Imani (Morgan Alexandria) and her friend, soft-spoken new father Carlos (Bryce Fernelius). All three have pasts they would like to put in the rear-view mirror of the moving van. But an offer from a creepy old man (Michael Flynn) with a German accent to do a quick overnight cash job will expose each person’s dark secrets and vulnerabilities, including piquing their perfectly natural curiosity when he tells them to shift everything in the mansion but stay out, per the title, of the attic. And the basement for that matter, but presumably director Jerren Lauder and his producers agreed Stay Out of the F**king Attic...
- 3/12/2021
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
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