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There's a Terrifying Amount of Horror Movies Coming Out in 2020, So Get Ready to Scream The Backstory Susanna (Seyfried) is Theo's (Bacon) second wife. His first drowned in the bathtub years ago, and Theo was accused of being responsible. He ended up in court but the case was dismissed, though some people still believed he was at fault. Fast-forward a few years and he meets and marries Susanna, who is several years his junior. They have a daughter, Ella (Avery Essex), who wonders why people hate her dad and if he'll die before her mom because he's so much older. Susanna and Theo are experiencing a little bit of turmoil in their relationship — which turns out to be because Susanna is most likely cheating — coupled with Theo still dealing with ramifications of his previous wife's death. They decide to rent a house in Wales to spend quality time together as a family. The House's Weirdness Right off the bat, The family decides they're going to leave the house, because they all hate it and are terrified — plus Theo finds another note in his journal telling him it's too late — but then Theo finds out about Susanna's cheating. Theo makes her leave but keeps Ella with him in the house. This is when things get really odd. The two of them discover that the dimensions of the house don't make any sense when they measure it from the outside. When Ella runs back inside to get her coat, she disappears into the magical maze that is the house. Theo runs after her and after ending up in the...

Contains spoilers for You Should Have Left Blumhouse Productions has a new chiller waiting to disrupt your sleep cycles, and it's available everywhere on VOD. You Should Have Left is exactly the kind of low-budget, disturbing film we've come to expect from Jason Blum's venerable horror production house. Written and directed by Jurassic Park scribe David Koepp, the film is essentially a psychological twist on the haunted house motif with a dearth of jump scares, but a bumper crop of slow-burning tension. Koepp's script is adapted from Daniel Kehlmann's popular novella of the same name, a work of prose with a clear creative debt to Shirley Jackson's genre-defining The Haunting of Hill House. The Following) stars as Theo Conroy, a disturbed man who harbors a toxic jealousy of his wife's success. He doesn't sleep well, and his sanity appears to be fraying. In an attempt to calm his mind, Theo and wife Susanna (Amanda Seyfried) take their daughter Ella (Avery Tiiu Essex) on a much-needed vacation to a remote rental house in rural Wales. As you can imagine based purely on the genre, this attempt to recuperate goes about as well as The Shining. Koepp takes more than a few liberties with his source material — mostly choices that actually make sense for the medium. Instead of including Kehlmann's dense backstory for the haunted Welsh abode, Koepp largely relies on visual misdirection to establish the strangeness of the house. This gives the entire film a disorienting feel, which co...

Running time 93 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $4 million You Should Have Left is a 2020 American Originally intended to be theatrically released, the film was released digitally via Plot [ ] Theodore Conroy is a retired banker married to Susanna, a much younger woman, and they have a daughter named Ella. Theo is a jealous husband and constantly fears Susanna, a successful Hollywood actress, is cheating on him. The family books a vacation in One night, Ella sees the shadow of a man on the wall. The next morning, she asks Susanna why people dislike Theo. Susanna reluctantly explains that Theo's first wife drowned in the bathtub, and people suspected that he killed her, though he was acquitted at trial. While in town for supplies, the shopkeeper asks if he has met Stetler, who Theo presumes is the home owner. He mysteriously gives Theo a Theo wrestles with feelings of jealousy and mistrust toward Susanna. One evening, while she is taking a bath, Theo checks the messages on her phone and laptop. Theo has a dream that night and sees someone has written in his meditation journal: "You should leave. Go now." The following morning, as he watches Susanna and Ella playing outside, he texts her. At the same time he sees Susanna look at her phone, he hears a text vibration on the kitchen counter and finds an identical phone with his messages on the screen. Realizing that she has a secret phone, he suspects she has been cheating on him. He confronts Susanna, and...