Dead Calm vs The Home

The Home has the higher audience score (9/10 against 6.6/10 for Dead Calm). The Home is the shorter watch at 1h 27m compared with 1h 36m. Dead Calm is the older of the two (1989 against 2025). Both are horror, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Dead Calm posterDead Calm1989 VS The Home posterThe Home2025
Dead CalmThe Home
Audience score★ 6.6/10★ 9.0/10
Year19892025
Length1h 36m1h 27m
GenresHorror, ThrillerHorror, Thriller
Country––
DirectorPhillip NoyceMattias J. Skoglund
Main castNicole Kidman, Sam Neill, George Shevtsov, Billy Zane, Lisa CollinsBengt C.W. Carlsson, Anki Lidén, Philip Oros, Gizem Erdogan, Lottie Ejebrant

Synopsis

Dead Calm

An Australian couple takes a sailing trip in the Pacific to get over the recent loss of their son. While on the open sea, they come across a sinking ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems.

The Home

Many years after leaving the small town behind, Joel returns to move his mother Monika, a home for the elderly struggling with dementia. However, Monika’s health takes a turn for the worse soon after her arrival. She experiences terrifying visions of her late husband, Joel’s abusive father, and begins exhibiting violent behavior. Joel begins to believe that something malevolent and supernatural has taken control of his mother. But with his own…

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