PLOT: Adam and Margo are in for a bizarre night of their lives when a couple refuses to leave after their housewarming party.
You throw a party. You have a good time with your friends. The guests leave at an appropriate time. You clear the house and then sit back and relax. The party was a success.
But uh-oh...some of the guests didn't leave.
Isn't it annoying when guests don't leave on time?
Just how do you get rid of the guests who don't get that they are supposed to leave already? All the other guests have left so why don't they take the hint?
Now imagine that those guests are not only annoying but dangerous as well.
WHO INVITED THEM Plot
A little boy called Dylan is walking down the corridor with his stuffed toy and stands outside his parents' bedroom door. A pool of blood seeps from under the door and Dylan screams.
It was all a dream.
Dylan's parents are Adam and Margo who have just moved into this new house...excuse me, mansion.
When Adam learns his son has had a nightmare, he blames it on new house jitters. Yes, that's what it is. Not a warning or anything. Maybe Dylan has a sixth sense?
Anyway, the couple is getting ready to throw a party and Adam can't stop but brag about the awesome deal he got on this house. Margo overhears their friends talking about Adam's annoying behavior and how they wish he would talk about something else.
Adam goes to his boss and tries flattery but they politely leave the party citing prior engagements. Adam is disappointed that he wasn't able to charm the boss. The whole point of the party was to butter up his boss.
Their friends Teeny and Frank notice a couple at the party who are very well dressed but also seem to be staring and almost hostile.
They wave it off as another one of Adam's couple of friends.
After the party is over, Teeny offers to take Dylan with her so that Margo and Adam can have a time off. Margo warns her that Dylan has been having a hard time sleeping but Teeny is certain she can handle it.
So goes Dylan with their friends. Without his beloved stuffed toy. That's really going to come to play later.
Adam and Margo start clearing up and then do what most hosts do after a party: gossip about the guests.
They talk about the well-dressed couple and realize that they were not their friends. Whoops! This doesn’t come up during the party? Adam and Margo have so many friends they don't know who is friends with whom? And of course they don't know each other's friends because they are super popular.
Anyway, they pass it off as party crashers and then get on with putting and taking things out of the fridge.
The first time nothing happens when Margo closes the refrigerator door. Would have been a typical horror trope, right?
But the second time Margo closes the door, there's the well-dressed man they were gossiping about. And behind him, his wife.
Margo and Adam get the shock of their lives. Tom gives them their most charming smile. Sasha also emerges from the bathroom too and the couple explains how they are their neighbors and not some gate crashers.
Adam is a little antagonistic at first and pretty much tells them to get lost. But when Tom praises the house, Adam is easily beguiled and his smile widens.
Margo is still wary of her neighbors who claim to have stepped into their house initially to complain about the cars parking in front of their house but change their minds when they see how amazing the decor is.
Their new neighbors invite them for a nightcap and then pretty much slap their faces and inform them that their house is going through a renovation.
Margo starts to make excuses but Adam, the ever-desperate man trying too hard, insists they have their nightcap here.
Margo rolls her eyes but then takes to Sasha who has the knack to bring out Margo's secrets and regrets.
Of course, it starts with the flattery: you look too young to be a mom.
On the other side, Tom thinks Adam is the cat's pajamas and his business ideas are too good and he needs to open his own business.
Margo reveals her wild streak to Sasha and how she had to tone it down for Adam. Upon Sasha's insistence, Margo calls up her old bandmate for whom she had feelings.
This all happens after Tom and Sasha admit they were using illegal substances in their bathroom and Margo thinks it's an awesome idea to take the same from strangers.
Eventually, the two couples regroup and accusations and regrets, and complaints are thrown about.
Adam points out the fact that Margo could have made more of an effort to talk to his boss. Margo could have but she was too busy making annoyed faces and eavesdropping on what their guests were saying about them.
Tom and Sasha try to play counselors and ask Adam and Margo to slap each other as it will help them vent and heal.
Adam refuses to hit his wife but Margo has a go and pretty much punches him. Now imagine if the movie did have a scene with Adam hitting Margo instead. Imagine the backlash. But it was okay to show Margo hit Adam?
Anyway, she makes up for her mistake by applying first aid to her husband. They forgive each other, or perhaps Tom and Sasha's activity worked. Or their temporary high came down.
They apologize to each other and decide that their son is away and they should be enjoying their alone time. So it is time to bid farewell to Tom and Sasha.
But do they leave?
Now it wouldn't be a horror movie if they did, now would it?
Tom and Sasha point out that their hosts have bad manners and surely they will let their guests finish their drinks at least, right?
When they don't proceed to gulp down their drinks, Adam and Margo start to get nervous.
They claim that Tom and Sasha are not even their neighbors as they checked and clearly that house belongs to someone else.
Tom and Sasha continue to be annoyingly mysterious which result in Adam smashing a liquor bottle on Tom's head. He hardly seems perturbed by it.
They tell their hosts that they don't live in the house next door but the one across. Whoops!
Adam and Margo feel appalled by their behavior. They apologize profusely but Tom and Sasha are finally ready to leave. Adam and Margo even see them go inside the house across after watching them fumble with the key for a while.
They're gone and the couple is safe. Is this the end, yet?
WHO INVITED THEM Ending Explained with Spoilers!
Meanwhile, Dylan has had yet another nightmare that has resulted in him wetting the bed. Worse, he has just remembered he needs his stuffed toy because he can't sleep without it even though he did and had a nightmare.
Teeny offers to drive to Margo's house to retrieve it. Frank makes an attempt to offer to drive but Teeny tells him she's still dressed anyway.
She goes off and gets confused with the address.
Meanwhile, Margo and Adam are slapping themselves for being too impulsive and regret being hostile towards their neighbors. I mean, he did smash a bottle on Tom's head.
While clearing up, they find an earring and are sure it belongs to Sasha. Adam wants to return it right away. Margo initially tells him to return it in the morning, but Adam is desperate for their forgiveness and wants to impress them.
He goes to see his new neighbors and gets the shock of his life. Turns out that Tom and Sasha are up to no good.
One of the things that Adam had lied to Margo about was that there had been a murder in the house. There had been twins living with their parents' bodies for a while before the stench alerted the neighbors.
The father had apparently killed the mother and then himself. Margo had been shocked to hear how Adam managed to get a good deal on the house but still forgave him.
The twins? It's Tom and Sasha. They are not a couple but twins. Tom and Sasha reveal to a shocked Adam that they caused problems between their parents so they would be too occupied with figuring out if one of them was having an affair or addicted to cigarettes to notice that their children are up to no good.
Inside, the actual owners of the house are all tied up. Sasha gets to choose which couple to spare by using the code words Cantaloupe and Rutabaga. The choice is between a fruit and a root vegetable. Sasha likes vegetables so she uses that code word when she wants to spare a couple. Adam and Margo are clearly root vegetables.
Adam is promptly tied up and made to watch the murder of the house's owners.
Margo gets an inkling something is up since Adam isn't back yet and not picking up his phone.
Adam manages to free himself and run. Teeny finds that moment to appear and try to shoot Tom because she has been stabbed. But she's a terrible shot and gets Adam instead.
Or maybe it was her plan to get him all along considering how obnoxious Adam has been throughout the movie.
Adam is fortunately not fatally shot.
Sometime later, Margo is relaxed and enjoying herself in the murder house. Adam is still apprehensive considering he was shot. Of course, he is traumatized.
A record is playing in the background, the very one he had Tom pick that fateful night. Except the rare record had a scratch on it. Tom had enjoyed the record and told Adam he would find another without a scratch. Adam waved it off saying that the record was such a rare find.
Turns out Tom may have found it and ended up breaking into Adam's house to mess with his mind. The record plays without hindrance and a glass of whiskey sits beside it.
Uh oh.
Then again, Adam's PTSD is probably causing him to become paranoid. Maybe Margo was doing some daytime drinking.
The couple labeled as Rutabaga and the killer twins hardly go back on their words. They spared Adam and Margo and intend to keep it that way.
The movie ends.
What we do get to learn from this movie is that whenever you throw a party, make sure the door is closed. Let the guests ring the doorbell and enter. Also, rather than assuming so and so the person is a friend of someone, just approach them and clarify.
Scare Scale: 3/5
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