The Home (2025 American film)

Max, a foster child whose older foster brother died by suicide a decade prior, has grown into a graffiti artist who has been arrested for vandalism.

His foster father works out a deal so he can work community service and not receive a criminal record. He moves into a retirement home where he is to act as superintendent. He is told not to enter the fourth floor.

Max befriends some of the residents as he comes to discover multiple strange incidents such as residents breaking into his room at night, spontaneous resident bleeding and uncomfortable psychological disorders.

Max eventually makes his way to the fourth floor where the residents are mostly lethargic and suffer from extreme bodily harm and psychoses. One resident on the fourth floor attacks him and he is told not to return.

One of the residents he befriends falls off the home and dies impaled on the fence. A shaken Max begins privately investigating the home and the residents and eventually returns to his foster parents' home.

There he meets two new younger foster children who show him a private room in the house with ritualistic symbols after his foster mother inadvertently reveals she knew the friendly resident. Max discovers the accosting fourth floor resident is actually his brother, whose suicide was staged.

He returns to the elderly home where he is captured and is told the entire staff and residents take fluid from foster children’s eyes that gives them extended life, with his foster parents providing the victims. The resident who was impaled was feeling guilty about exploiting Max so they murdered her.

Max is placed on the fourth floor so his youth can be harvested for the cult. Max's brother harvests the eye fluid from the remaining fourth floor victims and himself, and he feeds Max all of their fluid which gives him enough stamina to kill the entire residential home's cult. After the storm, Max and the drained victims, having regained some of their strength by taking back the fluid from the dead cult, escape the home.

• Pete Davidson as Max
• John Glover as Lou
• Bruce Altman as Dr. Sabian
• Ethan Phillips as Ethan
• Mary Beth Peil as Norma
• Marilee Talkington as Gretchen
• Victor Williams as Couper

In September 2021, James DeMonaco confirmed to Collider to be directing a ‘paranoid psychological horror thriller’ titled The Home, with Pete Davidson in the lead role.^[5] Produced by Miramax, principal photography took place in the New Jersey cities of Denville, Elizabeth and Nutley, from late January to early April 2022.^[6][7] The closed senior living facility in Denville, Saint Francis Residential Community, served as the titular "home".^[8] By April 2022, Marilee Talkington joined the cast.^[9]

In October 2023, Lionsgate acquired U.S. distribution rights to the film at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival.^[10] The film was released on July 25, 2025 in the United States.^[1] It opened the FrightFest film festival on August 21, 2025.^[11][12]