A family's beach vacation becomes a chilling fight for survival against their own eerie doppelgängers.
Suspenseful and surreal. A late-night trip at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Max.
Of what we could confirm, nothing runs past an R: real scares and several jump scares.
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Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.
It leaves the ending open to interpretation.
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Alien (1979)Terrifying · graphic gore · strong violence · emotionally heavyA commercial spaceship crew answers a distress signal, unleashing a chilling, gritty, and atmospheric nightmare.
1408 (2007)Properly scary · light gore · emotionally heavy · measuredA cynical debunker of the supernatural confronts genuine terror in a hotel room where the chilling atmosphere never breaks.
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