The Rental

The Rental follows two couples who rent a house by the ocean for a weekend together. What begins as a celebratory trip takes a darker turn as they come to suspect that the host of the property may be watching them. Their suspicions grow, and the getaway becomes something far more threatening than any of them expected.

The film is set in the United States and runs 88 minutes. It was directed and co-written by Dave Franco, who shares screenplay credit with Joe Swanberg. It is the first film Franco directed, followed by Somebody I Used to Know in 2023. The cast includes Dan Stevens, Alison Brie, Sheila Vand, Jeremy Allen White, Toby Huss and Connie Wellman. The film was made for a reported budget of 4 million US dollars and took in roughly the same amount worldwide.

Critical response was mixed, with a film critics' rating of 6.3 out of 10; on IMDb it holds 5.7 out of 10 from around 43,000 votes, and on TMDB it sits at 5.5 out of 10 from about 1,021 votes.