Pete Davidson Just Became a Horror Lead—And Genre Fans Are SCREAMING
The unlikely face of the summer's creepiest film isn't a ghost or a masked killer—it's Pete Davidson. The SNL alum, known more for punchlines than pulse-pounders, just dropped jaws with the trailer for The Home, a haunted-house-meets-foster-trauma flick from The Purge mastermind James DeMonaco. Horror Twitter? Already in meltdown mode.
This Isn't Just a Haunted House—It's Institutional Rot in a Jumpscare
Here's what makes this more than another creaky-floorboard-fest: The Home isn't content to just spook you. It's weaponizing the eldercare system and the foster care pipeline. Davidson plays Max, a former foster kid sentenced to community service in a retirement home where residents vanish behind “off-limits” doors. The fourth floor? Locked tighter than your stepdad's whiskey drawer.
Oh, and the kicker? He starts finding connections between this home's secrets and his own murky childhood. Suddenly, this isn't just about ghosts—it's about generational trauma with a body count.
“James and Pete delivered an exhilarating ride of a movie that is pure suspense-filled fun and just plain bonkers,” the studio promises. Think: Session 9 with bingo cards. Or The Taking of Deborah Logan if she had roommates.
Budget? Unknown. Hype? Nuclear.
The Real Nightmare: What The Home Reveals About Institutions
If this sounds eerily familiar, that's because horror has always flirted with institutions as metaphor. Remember Grave Encounters? Or The Skeleton Key? But The Home takes it a step further: this isn't a rotting asylum—this is the American retirement system. A machine built to isolate and forget.
Davidson's casting may seem like stunt-level trolling, but let's be honest—he's been playing a haunted millennial since King of Staten Island. This role? Just swapped trauma therapy for blood-soaked corridors. It's the ultimate typecasting.
Flashback: James DeMonaco's The Purge was never just about home invasions—it was about who gets sacrificed for security. The Home takes that lens and turns it on the aged and the abandoned. Where The Purge asked what happens when we legalize murder, The Home asks what happens when we institutionalize neglect.
Call it Get Out meets Gran Torino. But with more ghosts.
So… Is This Genius or Garbage? Decide Now.
The trailer's racking up views, thinkpiece writers are sharpening their knives, and the July 25th release has quietly become one of horror's most anticipated WTFs of the summer.
So what's your verdict?
