Pause at any given time, and it won't look like a scene from a movie, but rather a scene from an ad for Mr. The color grading of this 'movie', if I can even call it that, is terrible. Reviews read such as 'My first time rating a movie because I had to let someone know how much I hated it. Reception Critical response Īccording to review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, it has an audience rating of 61%.

In a final attempt to start fresh as a couple, they take the deal. Plot Ī young couple struggling to stay together are offered an amazing deal on a home with a questionable past that would normally be beyond their means.

When the woman decided to end her relationship with Otto, however, he became enraged, killed both her and her husband, and made it look like a murder-suicide.Aftermath is a 2021 American horror film directed by Peter Winther, starring Ashley Greene and Shawn Ashmore. The film’s ending explains that Otto was the lover of the woman who formerly inhabited the house, and that she designed the secret passages so that they could be together without her husband knowing. They discover that a man named Otto has been living in a secret basement under the house since they moved in, and that he’s the one who kidnapped and murdered Natalie’s sister Dani. After Robert is arrested in the film, Kevin and Natalie assume they’ll finally be safe, only to discover that many of the horrors they’d seen were completely disconnected from Robert. The villain behind the couple’s torment is also very different in Aftermath, as the attacks are attributed to the debt-ridden husband of the house’s former owner, rather than by a disgruntled competitor.Īdditionally, Aftermath splices the events of the Rowe story with an entirely separate plotline concerning the origins of the house and the murder-suicide that took place there. For instance, Natalie and Kevin, their relationship, and the circumstances under which they purchase the house in Aftermath are entirely different from anything resembling Rice and Ruhter’s lives, other than the fact that both are young married couples. However, the horror movie is still largely its own entity, with many alterations and whole plotlines that have nothing to do with the real events surrounding Rowe. The mysterious magazine subscriptions, strange communications to the neighbors and attempted assault of Natalie all mirroring the real-life case in frightening ways.Īftermath pulls a number of details directly from the story of Rice and Ruhter, including the magazine subscriptions and the fake online ads. Aftermath copies many of the specifics of Rice and Rowe’s experience, though it’s the home’s former owner, Robert, who ends up being behind them. Still, the mental and emotional terror of Rowe’s repeated attacks was immense. Fortunately, the scheme was discovered by Rice and Ruhter before either of them came to physical harm, and Rowe was caught.

She invited men on the internet to the house, claiming she (posing as Ruhter) had a sexual fantasy of being raped at home while her husband was at work. Rowe crossed a whole other line when she started creating online ads for sexual encounters, pretending to be Ruhter. She ordered thousands of dollars of magazine subscriptions to the house, got the couple’s mail cancelled, and sent Valentine’s Day cards to neighboring women pretending to be Rice, among other various torments. When Rice and Ruhter outbid her, Rowe began a gross and despicable campaign to oust them in vengeance. In 2011, young married couple Jerry Rice and Janice Ruhter purchased a house in San Diego’s Carmel Valley, outbidding another woman named Kathy Rowe who was also vying for the property.

Aftermath 2021 trailer