The Beach House Serves Up Summer Scares {Movie Review}

Early into The Beach House, the film’s protagonist, Emily (Liana Liberato), comments that her idea of the beach is a blanket and good book. Yet, she also riffs about how life began on our planet and how much we don’t know about the deep ocean. The film, written and directed by Jeffrey A. Brown, asks us to ponder what could happen if an environmental contagion spread and infected us. Like an H.P. Lovecraft story, most notably “Color Out of Space,” The Beach House is a grim reminder of just how small we are in the context of the universe and how one little change or microbe could alter everything.

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