My Review of The Home (2025)

 

Written by James DeMonaco And Adam Cantor

Directed by James DeMonaco 

Dr. Sabian (to Max): "Sometimes when things are bad on the outside, we have to look on the inside."

For this month, I will be catching up on more movies from last year I didn't get to see for whatever reasons. This was one that I wasn't in an immediate rush to watch but found myself oddly drawn to nonetheless.

As an actor, Pete Davidson can be somewhat hit and miss. In this movie he's playing a petty criminal named Max who's basically forced to work at a retirement in order to avoid more jail time. After this movie's events, jail time would've been the better option.

Anyways, Max had to deal with sexually active pensioners, bodily fluid disasters and rather hostile supervisors who seemed determined to make his life even worse. On the other hand, there's Norma (Mary Beth Peil).

Norma seemed to be one of the few people in the home that wasn't out of her mind and took a liking to Max. Mostly because Max reminded her of her dead son but the bond between the two of them was rather lovely to watch until Norma was killed off as things got worse in the home.

Max kept having crazy dreams and when he came back to visit his foster parents, even they were out to get him. It turned out that his dead foster brother was actually alive but aged and thanks to fellow resident Lou (John Glover) and the sadistic Dr. Sabian (Bruce Altman), things were about to get worse for Max.

The premise being that the old were in a cult that stole the essence of the young in order to stay young themselves was a good idea. Unfortunately, it's rather rushed in execution but it didn't stop Max from practically killing nearly everyone at the home in order to survive himself.

- Anything involving eyes and teeth would be an ick for me and there were too many scenes involving both that genuinely disturbed me.

- James DeMonaco, the co-writer and director of this movie was also responsible for The Purge franchise. It's on my review list.

- Co-writer Adam Cantor also played the role of Les, one of the workers who seemed to really hate Max.

- Chronology: Present day America. The movie was filmed in New Jersey.

The Home (2025) isn't a bad horror movie but it's not a must see one either. I will say that Pete Davidson did put in a good performance and there's some decent gross out moments. It's just a case of a premise that could've been tackled better.

Rating: 6 out of 10