Our House
2026 | Thriller/Comedy | 89 minutes | Directed by Peter Young
Three estranged siblings return home for their mother's wake. The inheritance fight that follows turns deadly. That's the entire premise — and it's tighter than it sounds.
Why a debut director nailed what most thrillers get wrong
Peter Young wrote and directed Our House, which matters because the script doesn't feel like someone's first feature. The screenplay has a quality that's genuinely hard to fake: it knows how families actually lie to each other. The inheritance dispute isn't really about money. It's about who was loved more and by how much. That insight drives everything.
The film opens on recognizable ground — loaded silences, old grudges surfacing over tea, the kind of passive-aggressive reunion anyone with complicated relatives will recognize. But it doesn't linger there. By the 20-minute mark, the pressure's building. By minute 45, someone's crossed a line nobody noticed them crossing. That's craft.
What struck me watching this is how the darkness accumulates. The tonal shift isn't sudden. It's incremental. The way real family dysfunction is.
Michael Shea, Hannah McClean, and Andy Doherty carry the weight
The three leads play siblings who share a genetic history but can barely share a room. Casting that convincingly is harder than it looks — you need actors who feel related and hostile, often in the same scene.
Shea brings a calculating edge. McClean carries the film's most demanding moments (simultaneously sympathetic and culpable without tipping into melodrama). Doherty plays dangerously unpredictable. The film keeps you guessing about which one's really the threat for longer than expected.
Here's what's rare: they feel like they've actually known each other for thirty years. Not just acted that way.
The comedy works because it's rooted in painful truth
Dark thrillers trying to be funny usually fail — the comedy deflates the tension, or the violence makes the jokes feel cheap. Our House mostly avoids that trap, and the reason is specific: the humor doesn't come from the situation being absurd. It comes from the characters being painfully recognizable.
The squabbling over who gets the good bedroom. The argument about funeral costs. The moment someone brings up a twenty-year-old slight at exactly the wrong time. These land as uncomfortable laughs because they're true. They're the kind of thing that happens in real families (not on screen — in your actual house).
What's striking is that McClean in particular pulls off something difficult: she's culpable without being unsympathetic. The New York Times once noted that domestic grief stories live or die by performance authenticity — and this 2026 production takes that seriously.
Where to stream it right now
Our House is currently available on major OTT platforms. Movie OTT's where-to-watch widget has the real-time breakdown for your region — streaming rights shift, and the tracker updates automatically, so you don't have to check each platform individually.
At 89 minutes, it fits neatly into a single evening. No cliffhanger. No sequel setup. Just a self-contained story that knows exactly how long it needs to be.
Is this for you?
If you've liked dark British or Irish comedy-thrillers — think In Bruges territory, not outright horror — you'll find Our House immediately comfortable. It's not trying to reinvent anything. It's executing a specific kind of story with precision.
Not a film for everyone. But for viewers who want genre work that earns both its laughs and its dread in equal measure, Young's debut is worth the 89 minutes. Movie OTT will track reviews and ratings as the critical consensus develops — check back there if you want to see how it's landing with other viewers.
Frequently asked questions
Q: Who directed Our House (2026)?
Peter Young wrote and directed it — his feature film debut. That singular creative vision from script to screen matters here.
Q: Who stars in it?
Michael Shea, Hannah McClean, and Andy Doherty as the three siblings. Each brings something distinct to the dynamic.
Q: How long is it?
89 minutes. Compact. Deliberate.
Q: Is it horror?
No. Thriller and comedy. It gets dark, but it's not trying to scare you — it's trying to make you uncomfortable.
Q: Where can I watch it?
Major OTT platforms. Your region-specific options are on Movie OTT's streaming tracker at the top of the page.
Q: When was it released?
2026. Recent enough that critical consensus is still rolling in.
