There's Someone Inside Your House--My take on the movie with spoilers!

 

PLOT SUMMARY: A graduating class is targeted by a serial killer who exposes their darkest secrets before killing them while wearing a mask that resembles the victims. 

Everyone has secrets. Everyone has that one incident in their past that defines their present and has formed their personality.

And of course, a secret is never hidden forever. Someone or the other always finds out and either uses blackmail or murder to get that secret out.

THERE'S SOMEONE INSIDE YOUR HOUSE Movie Plot 

The movie opens with the violent murder scene of a jock. He's alone at home when he sees photos of another student all over his house. The student in question is the one he had hazed and beaten up. The jock is in his closet when someone slashes his feet. There's too much blood sprayed. The jock falls down and is approached by a masked stranger. The stranger is wearing a mask that supposedly resembles the jock. It doesn't really but the jock thinks it does. He is immediately murdered.

On the other side at the school, a football match is going on and the guy the jock had beaten up, scores the winning goal. He cheers looking at the crowd but finds everyone staring at him in disbelief because literally, everyone has received a message on their cellphones of the jock's death and his secret which was that he would haze guys who had a different sexual preference.

The next day, tributes are set for the jock while everyone looks at Caleb, the jock's hazing victim, suspiciously. He has no one to sit with at lunch and the protagonist, Makani, and her friends Alex, Zach and Darby, invite him to sit with them.

Fellow classmate Katie makes a big show of her grief and puts emphasis on his accepting they all should be towards people who are different from them.

Makani rolls her eyes as a prayer is said for the murdered jock and makes eye contact with a boy, Ollie who smiles at her.

Ollie isn't just any pariah but Makani's secret boyfriend.

Meanwhile, Katie is at the church when someone plays a podcast she made under anonymity. Turns out she's quite a supremacist but pretends to be nice and tolerant. It's a fake mask she wears everywhere.

But someone else has also made a mask of her: the killer.

He comes wearing a  white mask of what is supposed to be her facial features and starts to attack. Katie tries to hide under the pews and then the confession booth only to be killed.

At this point, everyone in school is at the edge and Alex points accusations at Ollie. Makani tells her it couldn't be him but her friends don't know that she used to date him.

Makani pays a secret visit to Ollie and bonds with him but when she is the next one to be attacked she believes it is her boyfriend. Her secret: in her old school, she was being hazed by a bully who also drugged her. In a stupor, Makani accidentally pushes the girl into the bonfire and she gets burns on her. Makani was arrested after that and so that is her shameful secret which made her change her surname.

Ollie is arrested while her friends give her the "I told you so" attitude. But they are also her only friends so they all hug her in the hospital.

More killings take place, more secrets are revealed. The film's pace has slowed considerably by now and there is no longer an interest for the mystery to be solved.

THERE'S SOMEONE INSIDE YOUR HOUSE Ending Explained with Spoilers! 

When Caleb is killed in front of Makani and Ollie comes up behind, she realizes her pariah of a boyfriend isn't the killer after all.

But then who could it be?

It's Zach.

Makani goes to the corn maze where some festival is taking place. She goes there with her friends just as a fire breaks out.

Makani wants Ollie to prove he's the kind of boyfriend who will do whatever she asks for him and tells him to drive his car through the fiery maze.

Ollie is ready to do anything for Makani, even drive into the fire and place not only his life but also of his friends'.

And right in front of them, the killer kills Zach's father. The killer is unmasked, everyone is so shocked it is Zach even though it was becoming a bit obvious it was him when earlier in the movie he was forcing people to reveal secrets at his party.

But Zach had a brilliant plan. He was going to set up Makani as the killer. Even though he had attacked Makani in her house before he was about to kill his father, she was the one who was going to take the fall.

Turns out the reveal has a plot hole. It would make sense if Zach had killed his father, who he resented, prior to attacking Makani at her house. But since he does it after, how was he going to pin the kills on her?

Zach had issues with his father because he was rich and making a lot of money taking property. Zach hated being called the privileged one in town and having his car marked with graffiti.  He also didn't like that the whole town had secrets and didn't come out and tell him.

People are entitled to their secrets, you know. But Zach didn't think so. He blamed everyone for wearing masks when he himself did the same thing. Wasn't he too pretending to be a nice friend when he wasn't? Or that his secret was that he was killing people he didn't like?

Then why does he kill Caleb? He didn't have any deadly secrets. He was a  victim of hazing and was open about his sexuality.

The twist seemed forced. The movie was trying so hard to be different from the book that it created a twist that doesn't make sense.

Zach is killed too of course and the rest of the friends lived happily ever after.

In the end, Makani makes a call to the girl who bullied her and who Makani pushed in the fire. The girl picks up her call.

Makani must have used a different number that the girl didn't block. Otherwise, why would she pick up that girl's call who permanently scarred her face? And then talk amicably judging by Makani's expression?

The movie was greatly hampered by slow pacing. For a slasher movie, the story had a lot of pauses and the reveal, in the end, wasn't too shocking. The killer's identity is obvious in the hospital scene itself.

Scare scale: 2/5