The film charts the mysterious psychological destruction of Easton, who is driven to the edge of sanity, and possible self-harm, by those that love him most—his wife and daughter. Will Easton succumb to their increasingly traumatizing pressure, or will he conquer the dark forces at play in his addled psyche?
Acting
Backus unravels with queasy physicality
Direction
Bishoff weaponizes cozy domestic spaces
Director
Chad Bishoff
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bishoff cited 'Rosemary's Baby' and the 'satanic panic' era as influences, but inverted the trope — here the conspiracy is intimate rather than institutional.
The dinner scene where Easton counts his wife's blinks was improvised; Backus kept going for four minutes until Marshall broke character genuinely unsettled.
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