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The Inhabitant

The Inhabitant

Horror · Mystery · 2022

Like any other teenage girl, Tara is just surviving high school — yet her father and mother seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome ax murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her to question her own sanity and shocking ancestry.

Movie details

The Inhabitant

“You can’t hide from an evil that lives within.”

2022 Horror · Mystery 1h 37m

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5.9 / 10

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Like any other teenage girl, Tara is just surviving high school — yet her father and mother seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome ax murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her to question her own sanity and shocking ancestry.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over The Inhabitant?

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Jerren Lauder

Written by

Kevin Bachar

Odessa A'zion

Odessa A'zion

Tara

Leslie Bibb

Leslie Bibb

Emily

Dermot Mulroney

Dermot Mulroney

Ben

Lizze Broadway

Lizze Broadway

Suzy Beemer

Michael Cooper Jr.

Michael Cooper Jr.

Carl

Mary Buss

Mary Buss

Aunt Diane

Jackson Dean Vincent

Jackson Dean Vincent

Caleb

Court is in session

Put The Inhabitant on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Prestige Tourist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.