This House Has People in It (2016)
This House Has People in It is a 2016 American found footage analog horror short film directed by Alan Resnick and produced by his production company, AB Video Solutions, with Williams Street. It premiered as part of Adult Swim's Infomercials series on March 15, 2016.
A suburban family is viewed through security cameras placed throughout their home and monitored by a company called AB Surveillance Solutions on the day of their son, Jackson's ("Subject 4"), birthday party. The film is presented as found footage. Parents Ann ("Subject 1") and Tom ("Subject 2"), who is holding their baby, discuss their family vacation and argue in the kitchen about the defiance of their teenage daughter, Madison ("Subject 3"), as she lies prone on the floor behind them. As Jackson and his grandmother ("Subject 5") sit in the living room and watch TV, another man, Dennis ("Subject 6"), does handiwork in the basement beneath the kitchen.
After trying to get her off of the floor, Tom realizes she is stuck and not moving, and neither he nor Ann know why. The two frantically and unsuccessfully try to pry her off of the floor as guests arrive for Jackson's birthday party. Jackson arrives in the kitchen and Tom asks him through tears to keep his party guests outside. Madison starts to sink into the floor and through the basement ceiling. Jackson's birthday party guests gather in the front yard without him. Dennis, after seeing Madison in the kitchen, runs back down to the basement with Ann and tries to push her up using a wooden plank. He soon goes back upstairs and starts to cut around her with a saw.
Tom hands the baby to the grandmother, who places her on the floor and continues to watch TV as the baby crawls away. He goes to the basement and manically rants to Ann, then to himself, about their bond as a family being tested. Smoke begins to pour out of the oven and fill the house. In the front yard, children open Jackson's birthday presents and start to destroy them. Ann and Dennis grab the mattress from Jackson's bed and bring it to the basement, placing it under Madison to catch her. Immediately after she falls into the mattress, the video feed cuts out as the words "Out of range" flash on the screen; the audio remains uninterrupted, and Tom and Ann begin to shout and then scream in apparent terror. When the video feed resumes, the mattress Madison supposedly fell onto is vacant and the children in the front yard are all shown lying prone on the ground. Tom and Ann continue to scream until both the video and audio feeds cut out. "Out of range" appears again and remains onscreen, followed by the credits and a link for AB Surveillance Solutions' website.
To quote a YouTube comment: "This has the exact clarity of a dream that makes perfect sense until you wake up and think back on it, and you're like "what the hell??"
The VVitch (2015)
The Witch (stylized as The VVitch, and subtitled A New-England Folktale) is a 2015 folk horror film written and directed by Robert Eggers in his feature directorial debut.
In 1630s New England, English settler William and his family—his wife Katherine, teenage daughter Thomasin, preteen son Caleb, and young fraternal twins Mercy and Jonas—are banished from a Puritan settlement over a religious dispute. They build a farm near a large, secluded forest and Katherine bears her fifth child, Samuel. While under Thomasin's care, Samuel abruptly disappears. It is revealed that a witch has stolen and killed Samuel to use his body to make a flying ointment.
Devastated by the loss, Katherine spends her days crying and praying. Insisting a wolf took the child, William takes Caleb hunting in the woods to find and kill it when Caleb wonders if the unbaptized Samuel went to Heaven. In response, William discloses that he secretly traded Katherine's prized silver cup for hunting supplies. At the farm, the twins play with the family's billy goat Black Phillip, who they both say talks to them. Katherine blames Thomasin for misplacing her silver cup and holds her responsible for the loss of Samuel. That night, the children overhear their parents arguing about their possible starvation and making plans to return to the settlement before sending Thomasin away to serve another family.
The next morning, Thomasin and Caleb sneak into the forest to check a trap. Their dog Fowler chases a hare, with Caleb in pursuit; the hare frightens their horse, which throws Thomasin to the ground and knocks her unconscious. Caleb becomes lost and discovers Fowler's disemboweled body. Delving further into the thicket, he discovers a hovel from which the witch, disguised as a seductive young woman, emerges and kisses him. Thomasin awakens and finds her way home by following William's voice. As Katherine berates Thomasin for taking Caleb into the woods, William defends Thomasin by reluctantly admitting that he sold the cup and he had first taken Caleb to the woods.
That night, Caleb returns to the farm naked, delirious, and mysteriously ill. Katherine suggests that Caleb has fallen victim to witchcraft and prays for him. The next day, Caleb goes into violent convulsions and vomits a whole apple, before passionately proclaiming his love for Christ and dying peacefully. The twins accuse Thomasin of practicing witchcraft, but she in turn accuses the two of them for their supposed conversations with Black Phillip and confronts their father on his intentions to send her away. Angered by his children's behavior, William locks them all in the goat house.
In the middle of the night, the twins and Thomasin awake to find the witch, appearing as a naked old woman, drinking the blood of a nanny goat. She turns towards them and laughs, then attacks the twins offscreen as Thomasin watches in terror. In the house, Katherine has a hallucinatory vision in which Caleb and Samuel have returned. She takes Samuel and nurses him; in reality, she has exposed her breasts to a raven, which proceeds to peck away at her body. At dawn, William finds the goat stable destroyed, the goats eviscerated, the twins missing, and an unconscious Thomasin with bloodied hands. As she stirs, Black Phillip gores and kills him. An unhinged Katherine blames Thomasin for everything that has happened and tries to strangle her, forcing Thomasin to tearfully kill her mother in self-defense with a billhook.
Now alone, Thomasin enters the goat house and urges Black Phillip to speak to her. The goat responds in a human voice and offers her the life she desires. When she accepts, he materializes into a handsome, black-clad man, tells her to remove her clothes, and guides her hand to sign her name in a book. Accompanied by Black Phillip in his goat form, a naked Thomasin enters the forest where she finds a coven of naked witches holding a Witches' Sabbath around a bonfire. The witches begin to levitate. Thomasin joins them, laughing hysterically as she ascends above the trees.
Other Films Round 2 Bout 6
This House Has People in It (2016)
The VVitch (2015)
Voting ended onMay 19
