Marrowbone Has a Family Secret Worth Keeping

There are houses where the floorboards creak because they're old. And there are houses where maybe we stop asking.

Marrowbone arrives on Tubi October 28 with four siblings trying very hard to keep their family together while an enormous old house makes that job increasingly unsettling. After fleeing England with their mother to escape a violent father, Jack, Billy, Jane, and Sam begin a new life at her childhood home in rural America. When she dies, the siblings keep her death secret so they won't be separated, leaving eldest brother Jack responsible for protecting a family the outside world can't know is living alone.

As plans go, this one already has enough structural issues before something starts moving upstairs. The siblings cover mirrors, hear unexplained noises, and live under rules designed to keep both the authorities and whatever may be inside Marrowbone away from them. We recently spent a weekend exploring haunted house movies that make staying home feel risky, and Marrowbone adds an especially inconvenient wrinkle: asking the outside world for help could expose the very secret holding the siblings together.

Writer-director Sergio G. Sánchez builds the 2017 psychological horror movie around that uncertainty. Marrowbone could be sheltering the siblings from what waits outside or trapping them with something much closer. Figuring out which danger deserves more attention is part of the mystery. The doors don't open until October 28, leaving Terror on Tubi to keep spooky season appropriately unsettling in the meantime.

We're staying spoiler-free. The mirrors, however, remain suspicious.