Haunt is a 2019 American slasher film written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. It stars Katie Stevens, Will Brittain, and Lauryn McClain.
The film had its world premiere at Popcorn Frights Film Festival on August 8, 2019, and its international premiere at FrightFest on August 23, 2019. It received mixed to positive reviews from critics and had a limited release on September 13, 2019, by Momentum Pictures.
Plot[]
On Halloween night in Carbondale, Illinois, roommates Harper and Bailey attend a party together where they meet with their friends Angela and Mallory. The group befriends two guys, Nathan and Evan, at a local bar. Throughout the night, Harper suspects she is being stalked by a man in a devil mask. The group encounters a haunted house attraction. Before they enter, they are forced to surrender their cell phones and sign liability waivers. The group becomes separated after entering a maze; Bailey, Nathan and Angela encounter a series of armholes. As Bailey sticks her arm inside, it is slashed with a straight razor. She also accidentally loses Harper's mom's ring, which she was wearing. Harper and Evan lose Mallory. They meet back up with the others and witness a performer in a witch mask impale Mallory through the head with a hot fire poker.
Now believing they are in danger, the group sends Nathan to find an exit. He encounters a man in a ghost mask, "Mitch", who agrees to help. Devil Mask stabs Angela through the side of the face with a pitchfork. Bailey flees into the tunnels and accidentally activates the trap door, dropping Nathan into the house's operation rooms. He saves Harper from Devil Mask before finding the group's phones. Evan and Mitch make it outside, but Mitch knocks him out with a hammer and places the back of the hammer into his mouth like a hook, ripping his face off when he pulls in.
Nathan manages to give the location of the house to Harper's abusive boyfriend, Sam, before making it out of the house. Harper enters an escape room very similar to her childhood bedroom where she witnessed her father abuse her mother. Devil Mask attacks her and he is killed when he activates one of her traps, causing a shotgun to blast his head off. She then encounters another performer in a skull mask and impales then with a pitchfork, but is horrified to find that the person in the costume was Bailey, who was previously captured by the other performers. Sam arrives at the house, where he is promptly killed by the attraction's ringleader, a man in a clown mask, by having his head crushed with a sledgehammer.
Nathan goes back inside to save the others but is attacked by Mitch, while Harper is attacked by a man in a zombie mask. She defeats her attacker before helping Nathan bash Mitch's head with a sledgehammer. They encounter a man in a vampire mask, who explains that the performers are part of a cult that makes extreme modifications to their faces to look like real monsters, and like to rip the faces off their victims. He is shot in the head by Zombie Mask. Harper and Nathan escape the house, crushing Witch Mask's head with a door in the process. Zombie Mask attacks them but Nathan bludgeons him with a baseball bat before the two escape in Sam's truck. Clown Mask proceeds to burn down the attraction. Harper and Nathan reach a hospital, where the nurse asks Harper to write her address on a release form similar to the one they were asked to sign before entering the house.
Sometime later, Clown Mask arrives at Harper's house with the intent of killing her, but becomes stuck in a trap by Harper, who emerges with a shotgun and shoots him.
List of Deaths[]
| Name | Cause of Death | Killer |
|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Woman | Face burned with fire poker | The Witch |
| Four People | Unknown | The Performers |
| Mallory | Fire poker into the skull | The Witch |
| Angela | Pitchfork through the face | The Devil |
| Evan | Face ripped off | Mitch |
| Four Animals | Stabbed | Mitch |
| The Devil | Head blasted with shotgun trap | Harper |
| Bailey | Impaled through chest with pitchfork | Harper |
| Sam | Skull crushed with metal mallet | The Clown |
| Mitch/The Ghost | Hit in head with sledgehammer, neck broken | Harper |
| The Vampire | Shot in head | The Zombie |
| The Witch | Skull crushed with trapdoor | Harper |
| The Zombie | Head bludgeoned with baseball bat | Nathan |
| The Clown | Shot with shotgun | Harper |
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Trivia[]
- Filmmakers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods wrote the script for Haunt (2019) while they were also writing the screenplay for A Quiet Place (2018), without the expectation that either film would ever get made.