Horror/Thriller
Loretta Jamison is a divorced mother of two children, 15-year old daughter Becca and 13-year old son Tyler. Loretta sends her kids to spend time with their grandparents or five days while she goes on a cruise with her new boyfriend. Before sending Becca and Tyler away, she confesses she hasn't spoke to her mother and father for 15 years in relation to being married to her high school teacher Corin, who's also father of Becca and Tyler, whom her parents disapproved. Becca wants to know more about the argument, but Loretta suggests she should ask themselves about it. Becca and Tyler decide to make
a documentary about their stay at grandparents's place, who they've never seen. Arrived to the isolated farmhouse where Nana and Pop Pop live, everybody gets along fine. Tyler and Becca are not used to go to sleep early, but at grandparents place they must do it, since Pop Pop instructs them not to leave the room after 9:30 pm and not to go to the basement since it contains toxic mold. On a first night Becca gets hungry and decides to get some of Nana baked cookies, but on the way to kitchen, she notices Nana walking around and vomiting. She gets scared and asks the next morning Pop Pop about it, who explains it as Nana having a stomach flu, he warns Becca again not to leave her room after said time in the evening. In the past couple of days, Nana and Pop Pop start acting a way too weird for Tyler and he expresses his concern to Loretta when he and Becca make a Skype call to her. Becca and Loretta try to calm Tyler down, stating old people tend to do weird stuff when they're at certain age. Leaving day comes around fast for Becca and Tyler. Becca gives one final attempt to try figure out what happened between Loretta and her grandparents. She makes up a story about a girl, who's in love with an older man and escapes from home. It will be clear that Nana would forgive her daughter for leaving home and not listening her warnings. Nana and Pop Pop go out for a walk, in the meanwhile Becca and Tyler call their mom through
Skype and beg her to pick them up right at this moment in relation to being scared of their grandparents's weird behavior. Tyler shows Loretta Nana and Pop Pop through a video camera and she looks panicked, she notifys them that those people are not their grandparents. Loretta advices them to leave the house and find a neighbor until she arrives with the police. Becca and Tyler try to escape, but Pop Pop catches them and they start to play Yahtzee board game together. Grandpa rolls the dice, Becca leaves Tyler playing with them and heads to the basement with the camera. Nana begins acting very strange, Pop Pop take her to her room to rest, leaving Tyler alone. Becca finds photographs of their real grandparents and their working clothes and finally discovers their dead bodies. She is caught by Pop Pop, who attacks her. Becca realizes they're murderers and have planned to kill then this whole time after the week long visit is done. After struggling to break free, Tyler and Becca escape from the house, where they meet Loretta and police officers.
Produced by Marc Bienstock, who produced crime-horror movie Pathology in 2008.
Directed and written by M. Night Shyamalan, who directed and wrote fantasy-mystery movie Lady In The Water in 2006.
Cast: Kathryn Hahn, Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie
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