Ethan Lightman is a college student who has built a machine that should send electricity without wires. After his parents die in a car crash, Ethan leaves school and returns home to raise his younger brother Matt and younger sister Becca. He keeps working on the machine in the garage while he holds the family together and tries to pay the bills. The machine opens a path for ghosts, and a quiet family drama turns into a slow supernatural horror story about grief, guilt, and the danger of refusing to let the dead go.
The remake changes the youngest child from a boy in the earlier film Ghost from the Machine into Becca, a girl, and gives her a key role in the ghost story. Hannah helps Ethan with the science, while Matt and Becca face the spirits and work with him to protect the family. The siblings first believe that their parents have returned, but Ethan learns that dangerous ghosts are using their grief. The main story stays focused on family duty, lost parents, love, fear, and the choice between a world-changing invention and the people who need Ethan.
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Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Our House.
Woke representation / casting
Not present. The prominent family and college roles are not framed around representation or identity. The film does not make identity part of its casting message.
0%
Woke political dialogue
Not present. The dialogue deals with grief, science, ghosts, and family duty. The film has no clear identity, DEI, or activist lines.
0%
Identity-driven story themes
Not present. The story follows siblings dealing with loss and a dangerous experiment. The film does not make race, gender, sexuality, or another identity struggle the main subject.
0%
Western institutional / cultural critique
Not present. The film shows an unapproved college experiment and an illegal power connection as plot actions. It does not attack capitalism, religion, family life, traditional gender roles, or Western institutions.
0%
Woke character or canon changes
The remake changes the youngest sibling from a boy in Ghost from the Machine to a girl named Becca. The change affects a main family role and remains visible throughout the story. The movie uses Becca as part of the ghost plot rather than making gender politics a subject.
18%
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
Not present. The separate X pass found no anti-woke reaction or specific complaints. Reviews and audience posts focus on pace, scares, originality, and grief rather than woke or identity-driven content.
0%
Creator track record context
Anthony Scott Burns has no clear public activist profile, and the writers and producer have low stored scores. Casting director Millie Tom has a representation-focused record in other projects. That background is a weak signal because the film itself has no clear activist message.
15%
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