A landlord's worst nightmare moves in — and he brought his tool collection.
Grace Stearn, left in debt after her father's death, rents a room to a stranger named Ward Weaver not knowing that he is a murderous psychopath.
Acting
Kelly Harrison sells genuine panic in claustrophobic spaces.
Direction
Pejo turns a single location into a pressure cooker.
Director
Robert-Adrian Pejo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Robert-Adrian Pejo cast his own daughter Stella as Emily, adding an unsettling layer of authentic family tension to the threatened-child dynamic.
The film quietly echoes 2008 financial crisis anxieties — Grace's inherited debt and desperate subletting mirrors real American housing instability that peaked during production.
US
