A widow moves through the empty lake house her husband built for her and starts noticing things that shouldn't be there.
What is The Night House about?
Beth is still grieving when strange details start pulling at her attention: a door that opens onto nowhere, a floor plan that doesn't match the house she's lived in for years, messages on her husband's phone that read like they were meant for someone else. Alone at night by the lake, she pieces together a second, hidden version of the home and, with it, a side of her husband she never knew. The film keeps its horror close to the ground for long stretches, letting dread build through small domestic wrongness before it commits to anything overtly supernatural, and it treats Beth's mourning as the engine of the mystery rather than a mood laid over the top of it.
About the cast
Rebecca Hall carries nearly every scene as Beth, moving between exhaustion, dark humor and rising unease often within a single take. Sarah Goldberg plays her closest friend and steadiest anchor, while Vondie Curtis-Hall appears as a neighbor who knows more about the house's history than he first lets on.
Context & significance
Director David Bruckner, known for horror shorts and anthology work before this, builds the film around architecture itself: mirrored floor plans, negative-space design and a lake house that seems to fold back on its own layout. The production shot largely on real lakeside locations rather than built sets, which grounds the film's more disorienting visual tricks in a setting that still feels lived-in and ordinary until it isn't. Sound design plays a quiet, outsized role too, using the creak of an empty house and the shift of water outside to unsettle scenes long before anything appears on screen.
Watching The Night House on Ktime
The Night House streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, letting Farsi-speaking viewers follow Beth's unraveling investigation in full. All that's needed to start watching is a free K-Time account login, and the fully Farsi interface makes browsing straightforward for Persian-speaking audiences wherever they're watching from.