Synopsis
American Gothic (1987) is a Canadian-British horror film you can watch online on iFILM, directed by John Hough. Six friends take off for a weekend trip, their seaplane's engine quits, and they're stranded on an isolated island.
Hunting for help, they stumble onto a backwoods farm run by sweet old Ma and Pa — played by Rod Steiger and Yvonne De Carlo — who live as if it's still the 1920s. The hospitality curdles fast. The couple's grown "kids" are middle-aged adults frozen in childhood, and outsiders aren't welcome for long. One by one, the visitors go missing.
Hough trades gore for a clammy, off-kilter dread, leaning on the clash between the family's prim old-time values and what they actually do to trespassers; Steiger's eerily calm patriarch holds it together. Worth a look for fans of grimy 1980s slashers. Stream American Gothic online on iFILM.
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