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The Home (2025)

★ 6.7 · 224 ratings on TMDB

Evil never gets old.

The Home poster★ 6.7

A troubled man starts working at a retirement home and realizes its residents and caretakers harbor sinister secrets. As he investigates the building and its forbidden fourth floor, he starts to uncover connections to his own past and upbringing as a foster child.

DirectorJames DeMonaco
CastAdam Cantor, Bruce Altman, Denise Burse, Ethan Phillips, John Glover, Mary Beth Peil
GenresHorror, Mystery, Thriller
The emergence reading

The Home keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

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Shared director or cast.

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