Haunted house films are fairly common. And in this era of low-budget horror, we’ve seen quite a few of them pop up, as filming in one location is always fairly cost-effective. But it does seem that “You Should Have Left” is aiming to put a new spin on the familiar premise.
As seen in the trailer, “You Should Have Left” follows a family that moves into a new home that is clearly not all it seems to be. Though it doesn’t look like the creepy old mansions that typically are filled with ghosts, this is a modern house that just has a few peculiarities. You know, like the fact that the inside of the house is bigger than the outside. And there seems to be someone that takes polaroids of them while they sleep.
The cast includes Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried. David Koepp, the screenwriter behind films such as “Jurassic Park,” “Carlito’s Way,” and Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man,” writes and directs this new Blumhouse thriller. “You Should Have Left” is the first film that Koepp has directed since 2015’s “Mortdecai” and the first film he has written and directed since 2008’s “Ghost Town.”
“You Should Have Left” is the latest fairly high-profile film to skip theaters and head straight to VOD since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down most theaters. However, even with theaters beginning to reopen and exhibitors expecting to have a vast majority of locations open in just a month, Blumhouse and Universal are still moving ahead with a VOD release of this new thriller.
“You Should Have Left” is set to arrive on PVOD on June 19.
Here’s the synopsis:
Theo Conroy (Bacon) is a successful middle-aged man whose marriage to his much younger actress wife, Susanna (Seyfried) is shredding at the seams, frayed by her secretiveness, his jealousy, and the shadow of his past. In an effort to repair their relationship, Theo and Susanna book a vacation at a stunning, remote modern home in the Welsh countryside for themselves and their six-year-old daughter, Ella (Avery Essex). What at first seems like a perfect retreat distorts into a perfect nightmare when Theo’s grasp on reality begins to unravel and he suspects that a sinister force within the house knows more than he or Susanna have revealed, even to each other.