Details

Release year: 2022

Storyline

A woman staying at an Airbnb discovers that the house she has rented is not what it seems.

Top credits

Directors

Zach Cregger

Writers

Zach Cregger

Cast

Georgina Campbell — Tess
Bill Skarsgård — Keith
Justin Long — AJ
Matthew Patrick Davis — The Mother

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Did you know

• The Mother's hair on the baby bottle was initially a mistake. Some of Matthew Patrick Davis' wig got stuck to the nipple and writer/director Zach Cregger thought it looked really gross, so he decided to add more to it.

• The film's special effects are largely done practically, as Cregger had a soft rule for himself not to use any technology that John Carpenter didn't have whilst making The Thing (1982). The biggest digital effects shot in the film is the grass in the 1980's flashback, after all on-location efforts to grow or fake it failed.

• The script started out after Zach Cregger read Gavin de Becker's book, "The Gift of Fear," which encourages women to trust their intuition when confronted by obviously dangerous men. He used it as a writing exercise and began crafting a thirty-minute short that consisted entirely of a conversation in which a woman continues to ignore a mounting series of red flags. He liked it well enough that he knew that he had the makings of a longer film and began conceptualizing a broader story for the characters.