Home Movie

Plot Summary

Upon realizing their two young children are inherently evil, two desperate suburban parents resign themselves to the fact that all they can do is document the youngsters' cruelty on camera for all the world to see. A first-person shocker shot in the pseudo-documentary style of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and DIARY OF THE DEAD, HOME MOVIE tells the chilling story of the Poe family, a middle-class, suburban clan living in upstate New York. Clare Poe (Cady McClain) is a psychiatrist, and her husband, David (Adrian Pasdar), is a Lutheran minister. Clare recently purchased a video camera to document her sessions, but when children Jack and Emily (real-life brother and sister Austin and Amber Williams) begin displaying some seriously disturbing behavior, the concerned mother can't resist the temptation to make some home movies. At first the footage seems fairly benign, but then young Jack hurls a rock at his father's face. Later, after Emily interrupts a tender moment by slaughtering a frog... From IFC Films.