Nothing is what it seems in taut and twisty horror film You Should Have Left

Enlarge / Kevin Bacon reunited with Stir of Echoes Director David Koepp for the new horror film You Should Have Left. (credit: Universal)

Kevin Bacon stars as a middle-aged man forced to face his demons in You Should Have Left, a dark psychological horror film from Universal about a mysterious house in Wales that doesn't seem to want to let its occupants leave. Tonally, it's in a similar vein to The Others (2001) and The Shining (1980), with a dash of Rosemary's Baby (1968) for good measure.

(Some minor spoilers below, but no major reveals.)

Co-produced by Jason Blum and Blumhouse Productions, the film is adapted from a 2017 German novella of the same name by bestselling author Daniel Kehlman. It's written in the first-person style of a diary belonging to an unnamed screenwriter attempting to write a sequel to an earlier hit film. With the studio pressuring him for a draft, he rents a house and takes his wife-an aging actress for whom work is becoming scarce-and four-year-old daughter on a long vacation in hopes of finishing the script.

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