The Box House is a 2014 Psychological American Drama Horror film written by Matt Reeves and John Ajvide Lindqvist and directed by Louis Leterrier starring Julian Glover, Harrison Ford, Alan Ritchson, Mandy Patinkin, Frances Fisher, Mickey Rourke, Annie Potts, Christine Baranski, Nicholas Hoult, Nina Dobrev, Juno Temple, Riley Keough, Betty White, Jeremy Sumpter, Taylor Kinney, Alden Ehrenreich and Taylor Swift.
The film serves as the first psychological horror film popular comedic dame television actress Betty White has starred in, the only other near horror suspense film she has starred in being Steve Miner's Lake Placid in which she starred alongside Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda and Oliver Platt.
The Box House is scheduled for worldwide theatrical release on March 20th, 2014 and had already came to serve in the running for Saturn's Best Horror Or Thriller film 2014 losing out to Victimized.
The film is shot in Arkansas, Virginia, Oregon and certain regions of Austin, Texas as the inspiration for many of the creepy locations had been previously scouted for Marcus Nispel and Michael Bay's 2003 Texas Chainsaw Massacre Remake.
Plot
A mostly introverted small town 19 year youth Daniel Haden (Nicholas Hoult) has just turned 20 and in a last ditch effort to reconnect with his in their senior year high school friends and ex-girlfriend Elsie Bennett (Juno Temple) organizes an elaborate trip to a rave party in the Arkansas Countryside.
The group hit a tragic turn as Elsie's current and somewhat unfaithful boyfriend Sam Forster (Taylor Kinney) gets into a heated argument with Daniel whilst he is driving along unfamiliar roads after getting lost.
The argument escalates into a physical attack on Daniel and Daniel's combi van handed down from his recently past beloved grandmother hits a tragic flip and then crashes onto the side of an abandoned road.
All of the group are alive but injured from the crash in particular Sam and Jarod Hoskin (Alden Ehrenreich) Sam's bestfriend
Cast
- Julian Glover as Abraham "Abe" Hershell
- Harrison Ford as Russell "Russ" Hershell
- Alan Ritchson as Russell "Russ Jr." Hershell
- Mandy Patinkin as Gordon "Gordes" Hershell
- Frances Fisher as as Alexandra "Alexis" Hershell
- Mickey Rourke as Daniel "Damaged Dan" Hershell
- Annie Potts as Marianne "Maria" Hershell
- Christine Baranski as Aunt Helena "Helen" Hershell
- Nicholas Hoult as Daniel Haden
- Nina Dobrev as Steph Tarra
- Juno Temple as Elsie Bennett
- Taylor Kinney as Sam Forster
- Riley Keogh as Taylor Michaels
- Betty White as Grandmother Eden Hershell
- Jeremy Sumpter as Zac Murtet
- Alden Ehrenreich as Jarod Hoskin
- Jesse James as Sam Lancaster
- Taylor Swift as Carly Stollen