He keeps things impressively tight, focusing on his four actors largely in slightly shaky close-up, allowing their reactions to what’s going on around them to produce the tension. As someone terrifyingly says later in the film, “It’s not fog.”įilms about the fragility of the human condition have taken on different energy since March, with works like “ Sea Fever,” “ Relic,” and now “The Beach House” earning unintended layers, but Brown’s direction here would have been effective in 2019 too. Everyone goes on different degrees of bad trips, but they wake up to something much worse. There’s a fog in the air that appears to be coming off the water, moving toward the house, spreading particles of light. When they run out of booze, Randall pulls out the edibles he picked up on the way there, and everyone takes a bit, essentially passing out as they notice … something strange outside. The couples get along, discussing life over dinner and a few bottles of wine. Jane has health issues severe enough that this is probably their final trip, and Brown almost digs into the concept that both of these couples likely won’t be together at this time next year, although for very different reasons.
It turns out that the young couple isn’t alone, as an old friend of Randall’s dad named Mitch ( Jake Weber) and his wife Jane (Maryann Nagel) have come to the beach house too for a different kind of vacation. How can they stay together when they’re headed in very different directions?Īfter arriving at the beautiful house on what appears to be a literally empty shore-Randall mentions that it gets more crowded after Memorial Day, so they must be early for vacation season-Emily notices some signs of recent habitation in the kitchen, including fresh groceries. Randall has dropped out of college Emily is talking grad school. They’re at a classic crossroads for young couples, where it appears that two sweethearts may want different things out of life. Emily ( Liana Liberato) and Randall ( Noah Le Gros) are a young couple of college kids who go the beach home of Randall’s father to get away and work on their relationship.
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