The House Across the Lake

A narcissistic husband, a wife with secrets, what could go wrong?

Karl Gordon, an underemployed pizza delivery boy, works in his quiet suburban hometown where romantic, professional, and social failures fuel his hatred for the changing world around him, setting him on a course that can only lead to carnage.

The alcoholic teacher Anna wakes up one morning in her house and finds a dead 16-year old boy in her bedroom. She's clueless to what's been happening, but is soon convincing herself that she caused his death. Her brother thinks otherwise.

The ultimate evil is in her son. Perhaps, the ultimate evil is her son. Jacob's Hammer, when a mother's love is no defense...

In this obvious forerunner to Hets (1944), Stig Järrel plays mentally-disturbed Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school. A series of mysterious fires have taken place around the school in the last few months. One of the students has seen Sjögren setting fire to a barn. But can he convince the trusted biology teacher Nordmark, expert of the criminal mind?

Following her mother's sudden departure, Kara leaves the East Side for a job in the Valley - only to discover that the tech utopia has a dark side.