It’s October and it means it’s the season for horror films. Netflix is ready to scare your pants with “Eli,” the new original horror film on the streaming platform. See the teaser below.
Directed by Ciarán Foy (Sinister 2), the film follows Eli (Captain Fantastic by Charlie Shotwell of 2016), an 11-year-old boy with an auto-immune disorder who’s checked in a ‘clean house’ for care, protected from dangerous environmental stimuli in the city. Yet soon he discovers that the house is not only “clean,” it is haunted. Consider “Bubble Boy” meets “The Conjuring” and comparisons with “The Conjuring” were highlighted by Lili’s appearance in the movie.
From Netflix, this is the summary: “Eli is the story of a young boy afflicted by an unexplained worsening illness that obliges him to live completely shut out from outside. His parents put their trust— his life— in the hands of a doctor whose advanced, state-of-the-art therapies in her clean house could have Eli’s last hope. When Eli goes through the incredibly painful cycle that could hopefully heal him, he is plagued by experiences that make him doubt who he can trust and what’s inside the house.”
David Chirchirillo (“Cheap Thrills”) and Ian Goldberg and Richard Naing (co-writers of the 2016 horror film “The Autopsy of Jane doe”) wrote the script.
“Eli” is Netflix’s latest horror adventure that is supposedly hidden on the list of scary movies. (If you opt for a dumb scare, the latest surfeit of Netflix original horror films is “The gift,” with Allison Williams and Logan Browning as musical prodigies in war who have psycho-gone.) Producers of “Eli” have also collaborated on an eerie, atmospheric Netflix horror series “The Haunting of Hill House.”
The movie starts streaming in time for Halloween on October 18.
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