The Home (2025)
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A graffiti artist performing community service at a retirement home uncovers a disturbing secret involving a cult and human experimentation.
The story
Max, a graffiti artist, begins his court-ordered community service at a retirement home where he is assigned as a superintendent. While befriending the residents, he begins to notice unsettling occurrences, including residents breaking into his room, spontaneous bleeding, and strange psychological disorders. He is warned by staff members not to enter the fourth floor, but his curiosity leads him to investigate the area, where he discovers lethargic residents suffering from extreme bodily harm and psychoses.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Max, a foster child whose brother Luke died by suicide, works community service at a retirement home. After discovering strange incidents and a forbidden fourth floor filled with injured residents, he meets a woman named Gretchen who claims the home is a government facility for human experimentation. However, Max eventually learns the truth: the home is a cult. His foster parents are involved, providing foster children to have their eye fluid harvested for extended life. Max discovers that the fourth-floor residents are former staff members, including his brother Luke. The cult captures Max to harvest his youth. Luke, who has been harvesting fluid from others, feeds Max the fluid of the victims, giving Max the strength to kill the cult members, including Dr. Sabian and Gretchen. Max, Luke, and the drained victims eventually escape the home.
- First release year
- 2025
- Runtime (minutes)
- 95
- Production countries
- United States
- Original languages
- English
- Directors
- James DeMonaco
- Writers
- James DeMonaco · writer; Adam Cantor · writer
- Cast and characters
- Pete Davidson · Max; John Glover · Lou; Bruce Altman · Dr. Sabian; Ethan Phillips · Ethan; Mary Beth Peil · Norma; Marilee Talkington · Gretchen; Victor Williams · Couper
- Genres
- psychological horror; psychological thriller
- Themes
- cults; old age; human experimentation
- Tone and mood
- paranoid; psychological horror
- Premise and plot tags
- community service; graffiti artist; foster children
- Reception
- The film received generally negative reviews from critics.
- Reported review scores
- Metacritic · score: 39 · scale: 100 · review count: 11
- Production trivia
- The film was shot in the New Jersey cities of Denville, Elizabeth and Nutley.; The closed senior living facility in Denville, Saint Francis Residential Community, served as the titular 'home'.; The film opened the FrightFest film festival on August 21, 2025.
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