Jane is the first in the house to become inexplicably ill, but the audience can deduce why.
This small wrench in the works is foreshadowing for the subsequent disturbances catalysed by sink water turned what I can only describe as ‘goopy’ and mysterious creatures appearing on the beach. When college-couple Emily (Liana Liberato) and Randall (Noah Le Gros) arrive at Randall’s parents’ beach house, they find it to be occupied by friends of Randall’s mother and father, Mitch (Jake Weber) and Jane (Maryann Nagel).
From the beginning the audience is made to feel uncomfortable, unrelated to any monsters or other terrors. Brown’s directorial debut, is very familiar – a couple heads to an isolated area for a nice holiday during off-season, frightening, inexplicable things start to happen, and chaos ensues. The plot to the cryptic, crawling thriller The Beach House, Jeffrey A.
