What is Makani’s secret in There’s Someone Inside Your House?

In Netflix‘s newest original horror movie, There’s Someone Inside Your House, each victim of the town’s killer has a deep, dark secret they’ve kept hidden from the majority of their classmates.

The film’s murderer enjoys not only letting the victim know that they’re aware of the secret they’ve been hiding but also blasting it to the rest of the town.

Each exposed hidden truth is meant to unmask the victim, to show everyone who the victim truly is when they’re not hiding behind pleasantries and the personas they adopt in day-to-day life.

It’s a nightmare of a situation, one that Makani Young fears she’ll fall prey to in There’s Someone Inside Your House. She’s harboring more than one secret from her friends, but while they wouldn’t approve of her relationship with the town pariah, Ollie, that’s not her greatest concern.

Makani’s deepest, darkest secret involves the real reason she moved from Hawai’i to Nebraska to finish out her high school career. It’s a sad and tragic story involving an accident on the beach.

Makani’s secret in There’s Someone Inside Your House

Spoilers ahead of There’s Someone Inside Your House

Before Makani came to the mainland, she was an athlete. One who’d been kidnapped by her older teammates and dropped on the sand in line with the teammates that were in her grade.

They were subjected to hazing, called outside of their names, forced to chug the drinks pushed into their faces, egged, and shoved at one another.

It was a situation that pushed the younger girls to their limits. A hazing that they all stayed around for because it was considered a right of passage, a team bonding experience in all of its awfulness and abuse.

When her teammate Jasmine pushed her, Makani pushed back. She was barely aware of her surroundings but immediately sobered when she saw Jasmine fall back into the raging fire behind her. Jasmine survived, but half her body was burned.

Makani was charged for her actions and was later acquitted, but she still received threats from people in her community for what she’d done to Jasmine. It also tore apart her parents’ marriage, but Makani states in the movie that they were looking for an excuse to divorce anyway.

She came to Nebraska to live with her grandmother to escape her past and start anew. Makani even took her mother’s maiden name to hide what she’d done. Her friends in Nebraska know her as Makani Young, but her given name was Makani Sun-Woo.

This burden of a secret she carries is exactly the kind of darkness the killer in There’s Someone Inside Your House revels in. It’s what makes Makani a prime target in the movie.

There’s Someone Inside Your House is streaming now on Netflix.