Liana Liberto as Emily in The Beach House
The Big Picture Beach vacations sound like nothing but fun in the sun unless one has seen Jeffery A. Brown’s directorial debut, The Beach House. What starts as an uncomfortable, accidental couple’s weekend in a nearly abandoned seaside town ends in a cosmic horror nightmare that would impress H.P. Lovecraft himself. Liana Liberato stars as Emily, a college senior giving her relationship with Randall one last chance.
Whereas a creature feature or slasher gives the characters something to push back against and kill by the end of the movie, The Beach House’s microbe descends over the town on a massive scale while maintaining intangibility. Once the film reveals the beach town is not abandoned, but rather, all the residents have been infected and turned into zombies, helpless desperation settles over the remaining runtime.
Related The 10 Best Cosmic Body Horror Movies, Ranked "Susie, do you know anything about... witches?" Liana Liberato Should Have Been the Final Girl in ‘The Beach House’ While The Beach House is extremely effective in creating a sense of hopelessness, it does come at a very big cost. Nothing is more frustrating in a horror movie than when the protagonist makes dumb decisions, especially if the audience is meant to root for them. Emily is not just academically minded — majoring in chemistry and planning to study astrobiology for her graduate degree — but street smart, as well.
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