Brandy delivers in her newest horror film "The Front Room"

September 9, 2024

"The Front Room" is the latest horror film from A24 that premiered in theatres on September 6, 2024 and is set to be released by Universal Pictures in the UK on October 25, 2024. Based on the 2016 short story of the same name by Susan Hill, it stars Brandy Norwood (I Still Know What You Did Last Summer) and Andrew Burnap (The Inheritance) as Belinda and Norman, a newly pregnant couple who is forced to take in her husband's religiously fanatical estranged (step) mother and soon finds out she's the mother-law from hell.

Written and directed by brothers Max and Sam Eggers in their feature film debut, the film is produced by Babak Anvari, Lucan Toh, David Hinojosa, and Julia Oh.

Cast List:

• Brandy Norwood as Belinda

• Andrew Burnap as Norman

• Kathryn Hunter as Solange

• Neal Huff as Pastor Lewis

• Mary Testa as Mary

Courtesy: A24

At its core, "Front Room" is a horror film interspersed with dark comedy with a touch of realism for anyone caring for an ailing parent. For it to work, the mother-in-law from hell, Solange, is more than up to the task. Belinda is an anthropology professor who quits her job and with a baby on the way, she's not in the most ideal situations. When Norman receives a phone call from his stepmother informing him that his father is dying, he refuses to visit the family. When his father ultimately dies, they attend his funeral, and we see why Norman wants nothing to do with his family as Belinda and Solange meet for the first time. Struggling financially, they reluctantly take her in when she makes the offer that they will become the sole beneficiaries of her will. When Solange moves in, she takes "the front room" of the house, and things immediately take a turn for the worse as creepy things start happening around the house. Solange reveals her true colors in a role that Hunter relishes where the sinister rises on the meter scale. Solange isn't above using bodily fluids and fecal matter to carry out her nefarious plots. Between her micro aggressions toward Belinda and religious fanatical dogma, she slowly takes control of the house in her attempt to replace Belinda and Belinda must fight to regain her family or risk losing them forever.

"The Font Room" is worth a watch for the genre alone. This is the first time since "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" that Norwood has been seen in a horror film. So many years later, that alone is worth the price of admission.

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"Front Room" is currently playing in theaters.