‘The Night House’: Designing the Isolated Home for the Supernatural Thriller
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor“The Night House” production designer Kathrin Eder jumped at the opportunity to work on David Bruckner’s new supernatural thriller, since the project represented an opportunity for her to flex her creative muscles.The blueprints of the house would also feature heavily as part of the storyline.In the film, Rebecca Hall Hall plays Beth, a young widow still reeling from her husband Owen’s (Evan Jonigkeit) death. She’s now alone in their isolated home that sits on a lake that Owen built for them.Optical illusions and creepy windows imply there is something sinister at work as Beth experiences the supernatural.It was up to Eder to find a location and built Owen’s dream home that makes the perfect haunting.