When their car breaks down, a couple on the run headed southbound for a fresh start in the Sunshine State break into a nearby house looking for a new set of wheels. What they find instead is a dark secret, and a sweet-as-pie pair of homeowners who will do anything to keep it from getting out.
Acting
Sedgwick and Donovan's synchronized Stepford horror show.
Writing
Dialogue so sharp you'll wince before you laugh.
Production
That house—every doily conceals something worse.
Director
Robert Olsen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bill Skarsgård and Maika Monroe improvised several of their bickering car scenes, which the directors kept entirely. Their chaotic chemistry was too real to cut.
The film premiered at SXSW 2019 as a midnight screening, where audiences scream-laughed through George's 'Lollipop' dance—arguably the most cursed use of a classic song since 'Singin' in the Rain' in A Clockwork Orange.
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