About this Movie

The story is based off of a popular creepypasta (horror-based stories/legends created and shared on the internet) written by Brian Russell, which you can read here. Many other indie filmmakers have also been inspired to adapt this story for the screen, and Syfy has made it into a television miniseries.

This was my first attempt at horror, and my philosophy in approaching it was centered around the idea of control as something that people instinctively need. I felt there is an inherently intense unease in not only taking away one's own sense of control over themselves and their surroundings, but in the implication that they've lost it to someone or something else. This has expanded into my fondness for horror that particularly utilizes the fear of the unknown, most prominently in cosmic horror.

The nine "rooms" of the house​ were shot in five different locations in the greater Boston area. A challenge we had when planning out the cinematography and blocking for this was in selling these different places as a single continuous space, making the transitions from one room to another convincing for the edit. We also used editing to have the rooms change in real-time, playing into our idea of lost control, that if you look away even for a moment, something will change and you'll be trapped.

The recurring yellow room is an homage to "The Yellow Wallpaper", a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gillman about a 19th-century woman's descent to madness after spending extensive time in a room with sickly yellow walls. In our production class, our Director of Photography, Brianna Ingemi, initially pitched "The Yellow Wallpaper" as a short she wanted to direct before joining our crew as DP for No End House. Given both stories' exploration of unsettling spaces, we thought it was a nice nod to the classic horror story, as well as an effective design choice, to go with a yellow room, intentionally making the color look more "sickly" every time David returns to it.