When a week at Grandma and Grandpa's turns freaky

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]Spending time at your grandparents house is a typically universally loved experience, right? I mean, not that I would know. I haven't seen my grandparents in like 13ish years. And they're still alive, but I digress. So, instead of having actual experience with it, I've vicariously learned what it's like to spend time at grandma's through like memes or specifically that one Spongebob episode. So, I have a general idea of how it's supposed to go. It's supposed to be a fun, wholesome time with loads and loads of sugar, right? I mean, typically. But without giving too much away about today's movie, as you're about to see, staying at your grandparents house isn't all fun and heartwarming and wholesome for everybody. Especially not for the kids in today's movie. So, hold on to your dentures because today is a very bumpy, rocky, hellacious ride.

[00:00:50]Two siblings, Becca and Tyler, are finally able to visit their aranged grandparents, whom they have never met before in their whole lives. in their whole 13 and 15 years on this earth. And this whole movie is shot from the perspective of both Becca and Tyler's cameras. Whatever the camera sees is what we see. So, I guess it's kind of found footagey. After 15 years of their mom having no contact with her parents, her parents recently found her via social media and got in contact with her after 15 years apart, requesting to finally meet their grandkids after so long. Becca and Tyler's mom, Loretta, obviously left on bad terms with her parents, even though the circumstances surrounding that aren't necessarily clear yet.

[00:01:32]She doesn't really want them to go and stay with her parents, but Becca and Tyler are insistent about it. The both of them planning on making a documentary about it for some reason, for their own sakes, I guess. So, Becca and Tyler plan on going and staying with their grandparents for a week while their mom goes on a cruise with her new boyfriend, which was actually Becca and Tyler's idea. Their dad actually abandoned them years prior. So, their mom's back on the market and has been for some time. After their mom waves them off at the train station, I mean, they're only 13 and 15, but okay, that makes sense. And after a decently long train ride, Becca and Tyler are finally able to meet their grandparents for the first time ever.

[00:02:10]And what a joyous meeting it is. Meet Nana and Pop Pop. everyone. It's low-key awkward at first, especially from the grandparents side, as neither of them seem very talkative or lively at all, but Becca and Tyler are happy to meet them anyway. Nana and Pop Pop still live in the same beautiful house that Loretta grew up in. So, the kids get to experience some tidbits from her childhood stories in real life, in person. And even though they've just met, they all seem like they get along pretty well off the bat. Tyler even performing an impromptu freestyle rap about pineapple upside down cake for Nana because freestyling rap is Tyler's passion in life and being afraid of germs apparently. Becca and Tyler then start settling into their mom's old bedroom. Pop pop pop coming in to check on them and to also inform them that there's mold in the basement so they should absolutely not go down there because it'll make them sick.

[00:03:01]Good looking out Pop Pop.

[00:03:04]I feel so stupid saying that and I'm going to say that a whole lot, so buckle in. So far, both Becca and Tyler have been sure to document as much as possible, being sure to capture every single moment for their documentary. Any and all footage of the utmost importance, of course. But off the bat, Pop Pop and Nana, they seem a little strange, if not a little ghost and weird. But so far, they've been nothing but welcoming and hospitable to their grandkids, so there's that. though.

[00:03:31]Apparently bedtime is at 9:30 in their house. 9:30. I go to bed at like 9:30 a.m. My sleeping schedule's so backwards. I'm trying to fix it. Well, I'm planning on trying to fix it soon. I promise. But a 9:30 bedtime requirement for anyone under 50? That's criminal.

[00:03:50]And Becca and Tyler aren't the biggest fans of it. Even though it's now past their ridiculously early bedtime, Becca has an insatiable craving for more of Nana's cookies. So, she tiptoes out of their shared bedroom with her camera. Of course, got to document everything. But what she witnesses ain't nearly as sweet. Her nana seemingly sleepwalking and puking as she goes.

[00:04:11]What? Tell me that's not funny as hell.

[00:04:13]Now spooked and having completely lost her appetite, Becca rushes back to their room to try and wake up Tyler to tell him what she just saw. But the next morning, Nana seems completely fine and back to normal, as if last night didn't even happen. And when Becca informs Pop Pop of last night's puke fest, he assures her that Nana's fine. She just had a bit of a stomach bug last night.

[00:04:34]That's it. She's great. Because don't we all just casually walk around spilling our stomach content when we're sick, right? Quick brag. No one believes me when I say this, but I literally have not puked in over 10 years. 10 years.

[00:04:46]Over a decade. I don't know why that's so unbelievable. When you have a titanium immune system like I do, you don't puke. That's for babies who get sick. I don't get sick. Well, at least not the stomach bug. Okay, 10 years strong. And that's a streak I do not want to break because I remember pukey to be horrible. Anyway, bragging aside, later that day, as Becca and Tyler are playing hide-and-seek under the house crawl space, Nana seems to be anything but fine and normal, given she actually sneaks into the crawl space with them and starts maniacally chasing after Tyler and then Becca, but in the creepiest, most unstable demon energy way possible. This scene is actually way creepier than I was expecting it to be.

[00:05:26]E. So, understandably, Becca and Tyler scramble out of the crawl space like they've got the devil on their heels, because they kind of do. But Nana just thinks it's hilarious and doubles over laughing about it. Got them. And after her fit of gratified laughter, she announces to her now scarred grandchildren that she's going to go inside and make some chicken pot pie for them. So, she casually ambles back toward the house with half her wrinkled ass cheek hanging out just getting some sun, double scarred. So, it seems that Becca and Tyler are they're in for one hell of a fun week, starting strong.

[00:06:01]Sometime after that family bonding time, a dude named Dr. Sam stops by the house.

[00:06:06]Apparently, he works at the same hospital that both Nana and Pop Pop counsel at because Pop Pop and Nana apparently have Hearts of Gold and volunteer as counselors in their free time. And since they're old people, they have nothing but free time. But Dr. Sam is stopping by because he's wondering why both Pop Pop and Nana missed their volunteer work a couple days ago and haven't been answering calls. But Becca tells him that they're both out on a walk right now, so she'll convey his message to them when they get back. So Dr. Sam heads out. After they get back from their walk, Tyler's growing curiosity concerning the creepy locked tool shed gets the better of him and he sneaks into it after Pop Pop leaves only to find that it quote smells like ass.

[00:06:44]And is actually stashed with a mound of soiled adult diapers.

[00:06:49]Nana then catches Tyler bolting from the shed. Understandable. And explains simply that Pop Pop has incontinents and he hides his accidents in the shed. Ew.

[00:06:58]And then he thereafter goes out and burns them in the field. Lovely. But at least there's an explanation for it, right? Has Pop Pop ever heard of the trash? And it turns out that not only is Pop Pop incontinent, but also extremely paranoid, getting convinced that some random guy is following them as they visit Loretta's old high school, Pop Pop freaking out to the point that he tackles this innocent bystander to the ground. So Pop Pop is a few dimes short of a dollar, it seems. And yet somehow the weirdest, most unsettling event of the day is yet to come. Somehow, somehow it gets weirder. That night, Becca and Tyler woken up by the sounds of scraping and thumping and a whole bunch of ruckus. Tyler choosing to hesitantly open the door to discover Nana completely in the nude, using the wall as a scratching post of sorts. I So Tyler quickly shuts the door again, but it's too late. He's already been blinded. He's definitely going to need some acid eyewash after that one. The next day, Wednesday, when Becca and Tyler inquire about the events of last night, Pop Pop reveals that Nana has a diagnosed disorder, a type of dementia that's triggered by nightfall called sundowning, which is apparently a real thing. So that's why Becca and Tyler need to be in their room by 9:30. And they need to promise him right then and right there that they'll follow that rule. So of course they do. And Pop Pop's explaining all this as he's getting ready for something, this something being an apparent costume party. And Becca tells him, "Pop pop, I think you're confused." But Becca helps him realize that he's just confused and and or mixed something up. And Pop Pop's like, "Oh, oh yeah, that's right. My bad. Me and my old brain." And afterward, when they tell Nana that pop was getting ready for a non-existent costume party, she tells them that it's something he does a lot, which what started that? Later on, Becca and Tyler FaceTime their mom, but she's unable to see them since apparently Nana spilled some biscuit batter on the camera lens and then tried to clean it with oven cleaner and messed it up. So, the computer webcam is currently out of order. And while they're on FaceTime with their mom, Tyler opens up about their grandparents strange behavior.

[00:09:01]Even though Beck is there telling to shut up and not be dramatic, they're just old people. But Tyler starts quickly expelling a cliffnotes version of all the weirdness they've experienced thus far. All the questionable concerning behavior he's witnessed thus far. But she tells Tyler that, you know, they're just old and they were always a bit weird. So old people do strange things. Tyler Becca assures her mom that everything's fine there. They're having a good time. Tyler's just being dramatic, but Tyler is not so convinced.

[00:09:27]After their mom hangs up, Becca sits Nana down for a special one-on-one interview for the documentary, of course. But when Becca asks her about what happened on the day that Loretta left 15 years prior, 15 years back, Nana starts tweaking out and kind of tantruming almost. So Becca says, "Okay, no more questions about Loretta. Got it.

[00:09:46]Okay." And cuts the interview there.

[00:09:48]There seems to be a pretty unhappy history between Loretta and her parents apparently. Geh. When nighttime arrives, Becca and Tyler hear that same creepy skimper scampering throughout the house, and Tyler insists they get a closer look at what Nana's late night shenanigans actually entail. But Becca's not on board and insists that Tyler give their nana her privacy. She has a condition, Tyler, and she's old. Cut her some slack. But eventually, she acquiesces.

[00:10:14]So Tyler subtly caks their bedroom door open just as Nana races by their doorway a couple times before she hurly starts crawling towards them met by a quick door slam from Tyler. Fair. Ew. And although they're both thoroughly weirded out, Becca assures him that it's just part of her illness. Calm down, Tyler.

[00:10:32]Stop overreacting. Because Becca wants to be respectful, but Tyler wants to investigate all this weird, suspicious behavior. And although Becca tells him off for it time and time again, I think Tyler just might be on to something here. And Tyler's a pretty funny, likable character so far. So, I'm going to side with him because there's definitely something off with Nana. And after Becca witnesses her laughing straight into a blank wall before trying to suffocate herself with her own scarf, Becca starts to think so as well.

[00:11:00]>> You have to laugh to keep the deep darkies in a cave. Especially when right after as Becca is heading to the barn to report Nana's disturbing behavior to Pop Pop, she catches him with a rifle barrel in his mouth. But no, no, Becca, I was just cleaning it. Just cleaning, I swear. Huh? So, there's definitely something arai with both Pop Pop and Nana. And at this point, this is when Becca realizes that Tyler is right to be suspicious and extremely weirded out.

[00:11:28]So, she tells them it's time that they hide one of their cameras out in the front room overnight, just like Tyler wanted to do the night before. And so, they do just that. Now, they're really going to see what goes on at night firsthand. But, I'm not sure if they want to. When the late night hour comes along, the camera shows Nana starting to romp around in her sleepwalking days just like normal so far, acting like she's done every other night until she finds their camera. and she finds it pretty dang quickly. Jump scare. So Nana takes the apparently poorly concealed camera with her, walking over to the kitchen to grab a knife before setting the camera down and eerily trapesing over to Becca and Tyler's door. And if the situation weren't horrendously creepy enough, Nana starts trying to open their door, but thank goodness it's locked. And this of course wakes both Becca and Tyler up.

[00:12:20]And although the jostling at their door is creepy, Becca just tells them to ignore it. Just go back to sleep. It's just Nana. Little does she know that Nana's actually got a knife. With a final surrendering thud on the door, Nana finally leaves. But what would have happened if the door was unlocked.

[00:12:37]Becca and Tyler have no idea of the danger that they were potentially about to be in. That is until the next day when they both get a little looks seeie at the camera footage from last night and they're both thoroughly spooked by it, freaked out head to toe after watching that footage, especially the supposedly sleepwalking Nana calmly putting the camera back on the shelf and hiding it. And especially the knife wielding she did last night. I would have left right there on the spot. Since their mom will be back from her cruise that same afternoon, Becca says they're ending their trip that night. Period.

[00:13:10]Come hell or high water. They just need to endure it and survive it till the end of that day. But I think the hell and high water has already come. Regardless, they try their best to act natural around their grandparents that next day and to keep their distance until Becca insists that she conducts an interview with Pop Pop. I guess to keep up the appearance that everything is normal and composed and we're still having such a fun time, Grandma and Grandpa. Sorry, Nana and Pop Pop. My bad. Afterward, a woman named Stacy drops by the house again, having visited a few days prior to see Pop Pop and Nana, but again, they weren't home at the time. But now they are. And from Becca and Tyler's perspective from inside the house, their grandparents and Stacy seem to be in a pretty heated conversation. On Stacy's first visit, when she only talked to Becca and Tyler, she told them that their grandparents were actually her counselors when she was in rehab.

[00:13:58]Except, at least from this encounter, they don't seem to be all too good of buddies. Since this is their last day here, Becca convinces Nana to participate in another interview.

[00:14:07]Anything for the documentary. Getting the same volatile reaction when she brings up her mom, Loretta. So, Becca takes a different approach, recalling what happened between Loretta and her parents, especially that day they split, as if it were just a story, because Nana likes stories. So, Becca presents it as a story about a young woman who fell in love with an older man and her parents greatly disapproved, which prompted a massive falling out and 15 years of arangement in the story. Of course, this is just fiction. Nana, don't freak out.

[00:14:36]And in this fictional story, Nana, what would you say to that girl now if you were, you know, fictionally her mother in the story? Nana has now become emotional by Becca's approach and tearfully says that she would forgive the girl in the story. And that's just what Becca was hoping for her to say.

[00:14:52]Now she can show this to her mom and hopefully eventually mend things between them. When the emotional interview has concluded and both the grandparents are out of the house again, Becca and Tyler suddenly sneak back inside to FaceTime their mom. And though the mom is still very merry and chipper from her trip, Becca and Tyler are anything but, telling her she needs to come get them right now, explaining to her that there's something majorly wrong with Pop Pop and Nana. By this point, Becca has managed to unclog, clean, and undy her camera so their mom can see them again.

[00:15:22]And after they tell her all this, and she can see how freaked out they are, she's of course majorly concerned. And she asks them where the grandparents are right now. So, they bring the laptop over to the window and maneuver it to show her Pop Pop and Nana out by the chicken coop. And the second mom sees Pop Pop and Nana, she seems immediately spooked, telling them that Becca, Tyler, those aren't your grandparents.

[00:15:45]Ew. And of course, Becca and Tyler are confused by that. Like, what? Their mom's like, "Who the hell are they? Are these the people you've been staying with this whole time, this whole nearly full week?" Uh-oh.

[00:15:58]While Becca and Tyler sit there in shock, trying to absorb this, Loretta quickly calls the police in their area, but it goes to voicemail. Small town things, I guess. So, their mom has no other option but to hurry out to her car and start the hoursl long drive to get there herself, hopefully with a gun. As she pleads with Tyler and Becca to try and get to a neighbor's house, something get out of there. They end the call right as Pop Pop re-enters the house, cheerfully suggesting that they all play a board game after they clean up the kitchen. It's their last night together, so let's make the most of it. And though they're both now even more terrified, they know they need to play along. Even after Nana playfully shuts Becca in the oven, after insisting Becca get in there and deep clean the back of it. Just your average grandma shenanigans, right? I wouldn't know.

[00:16:47]After a tense and uncomfortable kitchen cleanup, their grandparents head into the front room to set up their board game. Like, it's so normal. Just another fun family night. while Becca and Tyler head toward the front door, telling their grandparents that they need to get some final closing shots of the house for the end of their documentary.

[00:17:04]Nothing more. They're definitely not trying to escape. Of course not.

[00:17:09]But when they crack open the door, they're met with a scene straight from a horror movie. I guess literally. A body is hanging from a nearby tree. A body that looks to be Stacy's.

[00:17:21]I wonder what Stacy was arguing or confronting them about just earlier.

[00:17:25]Maybe the fact that they're not actually Pop Pop and Nana H. But right then, as they're witnessing that hell scene, Pop Pop comes up and slams the door closed, casually informing them that him and Nana have picked out the teams for the board game, young versus old. And I wonder if he had a double meaning in telling them that they're then forced to sit down and play yachts, despite what they just saw. And furthermore, knowing that Pop Pop knows what they saw. But they need to keep the facade of normaly going for as long as possible for the sake of their survival. And Tyler's a pro at faking it. Becca, not as much.

[00:18:01]She's too disturbed. But she's faking it enough. Shortly into the game, Becca excuses herself because she needs to change her camera battery.

[00:18:11]Followed shortly by Pop Pop excusing himself when his stomach starts sending warning sounds that he's about to have a full diaper. A loaded diaper, if you will. And when it's down to just Tyler and Nana, Nana starts stress munching on a plate of cookies like her life depends on it. Poor Tyler.

[00:18:29]Becca. It turns out Becca has instead chosen to head down into the basement, the forbidden basement, because especially now that mold excuse is sounding extremely sus. And Becca's worried that they might have their real grandparents down there, the real pop and nana. Once she's down in the basement, Becca finds a bin of pretty much all her real grandparents belongings, including photos of them, as well as a patient jumpsuit from a place called Maple Shade Psychiatric Hospital.

[00:18:57]So, a picture is definitely forming here, and it ain't a pretty one. And worst of all, beneath the bin's contents, Becca discovers the rotting bodies of the real Pop Pop and Nana, her real grandparents that she never got to meet. But then her fake grandpa, apparently named Mitchell, appears out of nowhere, telling Becca how excited her real grandparents were for both her and Tyler to visit them finally at long last, but that Claire, the fake nana, deserved to experience being a grandma with grandkids as well. And from what Mitchell goes on to say here, it sounds like Clare very well could have killed her own kids. So that's why she's missed out on the experience of being a grandma by her own doing. But Mitchell tells her that those kids are now safe in a place called Sin Morph Fatellia. And both he and Clare want Becca and Tyler to join them. They'll be safe there.

[00:19:49]So, if it weren't obvious by now, Claire and Mitchell are actually patients at a psychiatric hospital, the same one that the real pop and Nana volunteered at as counselors. So, Mitchell and Clare got to know enough about their family and their visiting grandchildren that they could fairly convincingly slip into the role of being them. But let's be real, they did not do too well. They're a tad bit too unstable. Mitchell drags Becca out from the basement back upstairs to where Tyler now lays on the floor with a mighty bump on his forehead. Pop Pop then dragging Becca up to the second floor and telling her, "We're all going to die today, Becca." before shutting her in a room with a massive lock on it and a very unimpenetrable one.

[00:20:28]Unfortunately for Becca, it's actually Cla's room, and Claire is currently in there as well, over in the corner making weird, creepy, grumbly, whiny noises, until she's not back downstairs after Mitchell has rid himself of his diaper and put it on the kitchen countertop.

[00:20:45]Ew. He gets himself all primped and ready for the costume party yet again.

[00:20:51]And all Tyler can do is just stand there in terror. Because Mitchell is not only psychopathic and unstable and unhinged, but apparently a full-fledged bully with asshole tendencies. Since he now knows that Tyler has a major problem with germs, something that started after Tyler's dad abandoned him, Pop Pop grabs his soiled diaper, soiled diaper, and shoves it into Tyler's face.

[00:21:16]And it looks to be soiled with more than a number one, if you catch my drift.

[00:21:21]Back upstairs, Becca is enduring her own nightmare as Clare is going full nutcase mode on her and begins savagely attacking her, growling and grumbling and scraping and clawing like a rabid dog, a demonic rabid dog. But Becca managed to grab a broken mirror shard, her head having been the reason the mirror was smashed, and ends up stabbing Clare to death as she's struggling beneath her, actively being attacked by her. And several stabs in, Clare ends up dying. Thank goodness. Good riddance, Claire. My gosh. After smashing off the room's doororknob, Beck is able to free herself from the cage fight, racing downstairs to immediately attack Mitchell. And although Mitchell is able to overpower her, Tyler trips into a manic rage and starts beating the crap out of him. HE'S ON THE RUNNER. WATCH HIS HEAD. THOUGH, I think Tyler knows firsthand that Pop Pop doesn't have much crap left in him. After Tyler smashes Mitchell's head in the fridge door repeatedly, Becca has to drag her brother away before he smashes Pop Pop's head into pulp just as they hear the distant sound of sirens. So, they both quickly grace out of the hell house and into the rainy night. Bolting toward the police car that's just pulled up with their frantic mom inside. After a tearary, panicked, rain soaked reunion, they're hustled into the cop car as the police themselves head over toward the house. And then it fades to black. But it's not over just yet. It then cuts to sometime later where Loretta is being interviewed by Becca again, insisting that she finally tell her daughter what happened the day she last saw her parents, right before the 15-year arangement. It turns out that day when Loretta left, when her mother tried to stop her, Loretta actually hit her. And then the dad hit Loretta before she left for good. Apparently, both her parents tried to reach out to her pretty soon after, but Loretta refused to answer their calls. So, she was actually the one who cut them out. And now she feels super guilty because it's way too late.

[00:23:15]Her parents are now very much dead and there's no one ringing that bell. The final part of their documentary, aka the movie as we've seen it, is a clip of Tyler freestyling, which he insisted that she include.

[00:23:27]>> For three weeks that left me like a basket case, I had to use two hold of bars on my face.

[00:23:33]>> Bars.

[00:23:35]Kudos to this kid though. He played the part so well. I actually ended up liking Tyler a lot. Anywh who, after Tyler has finished spitting straight fire freestyle rapping about all he and Becca just endured, it cuts to black. Thus, it ends. And I can post the entirety of this end credit freestyle as a short if you want to hear its majesty in its entirety because it is pretty funny.

[00:23:58]Anywh who, I actually ended up liking this movie a whole lot. It's by might Shyamalan and he actually does have quite a few bops. I have liked quite a few of his movies so far. So, props to M Night over here, but this movie was just so perfectly spooky and creepy in all the right parts and just had that ew throughout. That type of ew creepiness.

[00:24:18]And I like when movies can deliver on that. And this one absolutely did. And although I typically don't like, I guess, found footage type movies where the whole thing is shot with a moving shaking camera, it absolutely worked in this situation cuz the whole movie is shot from, I guess, Becca and Tyler's camera's perspective. Their whole movie is the end product of the documentary they made. That's kind of cool. And I definitely did not see the twist coming, but let me know if you guys actually did. Maybe it's just my fried brain over here being a little too slow. I hope you liked it. And I highly encourage you guys to all watch it for yourselves.

[00:24:49]Good movie. Although, keep in mind, you will see some naked, wrinkly grandma ass a couple times. So, if you're into that, you found the right movie. And without further ado, I shall release you from my hold and I'll put my yapping to bed.

[00:25:03]Until next week.