In case you needed yet another hellish family member to invite over for the holidays, Brandy’s mother-in-law from hell is making her way home just in time for Halloween as The Front Room makes its way onto digital for rent and purchase. Not even a month after the film scared its way to theaters, the A24 horror film is now available on all VOD platforms for $19.99 and $24.99 respectively.
The latest of the company’s horror films — which follows the release of the gut-wrenching I Saw the TV Glow — stars Brandy as a newly-pregnant forced to tackle forces beyond her control after her ghoulish stepmother-in-law (Kathryn Hunter) moves in. But she’s not just your average mean mother-in-law; no, there’s something else going on with her, and she wants to get her hands on the unborn baby, which Brandy’s Belinda refuses to let happen at any cost.
Brandy, of course, became a cult horror icon for her work in the early 2000s horror sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, co-starring Freddy Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar, the sequel to the ‘90s sleeper hit of similar name. The film is also directed by some horror-adjacent royalty: Max and Sam Eggers, brothers of The Lighthouse director Robert Eggers, who has his own horror tale hitting theaters this year in Nosferatu, starring Nicholas Hoult and Lily-Rose Depp.
Tragically, that doesn’t mean the film performed well at the box office. A24, which has been under some fire recently for poorly marketing some of their films, seems to have done exactly that with The Front Room, perhaps not trusting the quality of the film to carry itself — or to develop the kind of cult status that gets certain horror films access to the annals of cinema history.
In addition to the film being available to watch at home, its score by Marcelo Zavo is also streaming now on your preferred music platform — perfect if you need the right kind of ambient music for protecting your unborn child from a vicious force that may or may not be human after all. (Or office work. That’s cool too.)
The Front Room is now available for rent or purchase on all video on demand platforms, as well as playing in theaters.
