This House Has People in It is a 2016 American found footage analog horror short film directed by Alan Resnick and produced by his production company, AB Video Solutions, with Williams Street.
Framed as surveillance footage inside a suburban home, the 11-minute special follows parents Ann and Tom as they attempt to save their daughter Madison, who is sinking through the floor, while their son Jackson's birthday party takes place outside.
It was written by, produced by, and starred members of the Baltimore comedy collective Wham City, including Resnick, Robby Rackleff, Dina Kelberman, Ben O'Brien, and Cricket Arrison.
A suburban family is viewed through security cameras placed throughout their home and monitored by a company called AB Surveillance Solutions on the day of their son, Jackson's ("Subject 4"), birthday party.
[6] Comedian and artist Alan Resnick, who wrote and directed This House Has People in It, originally rose to prominence with his YouTube channel "alantutorial", which Vice described as a "creepypasta-meets-series" and which posted videos from 2011 to 2014.
[7] This House Has People in It was produced by AB Video Solutions, his production company, with Ben O'Brien, Dina Kelberman, Robby Rackleff, and Cricket Arrison, all members of the Baltimore-based comedy collective Wham City.
[8] The link at the end of the film, absurveillancesolutions.com, led to an alternate reality game (ARG) created by Kelberman, who designed the website and, according to Resnick, wanted "to make something so convoluted that only the most dedicated person will fully understand it".
[10] Fast Company's Joe Berkowitz wrote soon after its release that This House Has People in It was "another win for Adult Swim's anything-goes 4 a.m. time slot", calling it "chilling" with "a bizarre premise" that the film "challenge[d] viewers to make sense of".
[11] Ellie Houghtaling of Mashable included This House Has People in It on a 2019 list of "the best disturbing, unsettling, spooky shorts from the past few years", writing that it was "a definition project about cryptids" that got creepier "the further you look into it".
[6] Bloody Disgusting's Wesley Lara wrote in 2020 that the film being depicted as security camera footage "escalat[ed] the disturbing nature of what happens to a higher degree" and that it was "one of the most notorious [Infomercials] segments".