


Metadata and artwork from TMDB. Not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
occult
2015 · NR · 1h 20m
He Will Slither into your Soul.
The voices started as soon as they moved in. Jesse told himself it was inspiration.
Jesse is a struggling heavy metal painter who moves with his wife and daughter into a farmhouse in rural Texas, where he almost immediately begins hearing voices and channeling them into an obsessive new body of work — massive, dark canvases he can't stop making. What he doesn't know is that the previous occupant heard the same voices, and is on his way back. Sean Byrne's follow-up to The Loved Ones is a brutal, atmospheric horror film built around an unusually genuine portrait of a family worth fighting for.
Tags
Based on ratings
—
Overall
Jesse, his wife Astrid, and their teenage daughter Zooey buy a rural Texas farmhouse at a price that should have raised questions. They don't ask why it's cheap. The previous occupant, Ray Smilie, is a large, childlike man who hears demonic voices he has been obeying for years — voices that tell him to bring children as offerings. He's been displaced to a group home but keeps gravitating back toward the house. The voices won't let him stay away.
Jesse starts hearing the voices almost immediately — low, insistent murmurs he reads as creative fuel. He begins painting with a ferocity he's never had: enormous canvases of children in flames, children suffering, children lost. The paintings are extraordinary. He doesn't fully register what they depict. He can't stop.
Ray takes Zooey. Jesse, surfacing from a trance, looks at his latest canvas and sees his daughter's face at the center of it.
What follows is brutal and desperate — Jesse tracking Ray, the confrontation between a father running on terror and a man who has no concept of stopping. Jesse kills Ray with his guitar and gets Zooey out.
The family survives. But the film ends with Jesse still painting — still hearing, still compelled. Whatever the house put into Ray has found a new host. Jesse is home, and it is home in him.
More Like This
Reviews
No reviews yet. Be the first.