Who dies in There’s Someone Inside Your House?

There’s Someone Inside Your House, the latest Netflix original horror movie to land on the streamer, is a teen slasher film based on the YA novel by Stephanie Perkins.

From the moment the movie begins to its closing kill, this film doesn’t shy away from putting murder on display with every bloody slice of the killer’s blade.

However, the victims in There’s Someone Inside Your House aren’t chosen at random. Their deaths serve a purpose. Not an elaborate one, but a purpose nonetheless.

The killer terrorizing the town wants to expose the secrets held by their victims so that everyone knows what they’ve been hiding behind their smiles and pleasant conversations.

Here’s who falls victim to the killer’s blade in the movie along with the reveal of who’s responsible for the murders in town.

Who died in There’s Someone Inside Your House?

Spoilers ahead of There’s Someone Inside Your House

Jackson Pace

Viewers don’t have to wait long to see a murder take place in this horror. There’s one right in the opening when an Osborne High football player named Jackson comes home to an empty house. He sets an alarm on his phone to wake him up in time for the game, but it’s replaced with an egg timer and he sleeps until dark.

In his rush to leave the house, Jackson doesn’t immediately pay attention to the fact that something is incredibly off until he notices that the front door is open and his truck is missing. When he reenters the house, he’s confronted with pictures of the hazing he participated in where he brutally beat his fellow teammate Caleb while drunk.

Those pictures lead him into the closet where his ankles are slashed by the killer before he’s stabbed.

Katie Koons

The next murder takes place in a church on the day of Jackson’s funeral. Katie Koons, the student council president at Osborne, is laying out programs in an empty church. She thinks she’s having a conversation with her fellow acolyte until she receives a text from him letting her know that he’s sick and will miss the funeral.

Surprise, surprise, it’s the killer she was actually talking to and they’ve started playing the podcast she posted online anonymously.

In it, Katie goes on a white supremacist tirade railing against a societal system that won’t accept the “truth” that some races have higher IQs than others and requires her not to believe that she’s superior when in her mind that’s exactly what the white race is, superior to all others.

The killer guts Katie, but she still manages to escape into a confessional. She attempts to call 911, but as she’s also very conscious of how that podcast makes her look, she lies to the operator about being forced to record hate speech.

Katie’s silenced by a blade driven through her head and out her mouth.

Rodrigo Doran

In the saddest death of There’s Someone Inside Your House, Rodrigo becomes a victim of the masked killer’s murder spree at the secret party that his friend, Zach Sanford, is throwing. The party is meant to be a gathering where everyone shares their secrets so that they can’t be used against them.

Obviously, not very many of the attendants actually disclose what they’ve kept hidden. Rodrigo confesses to liking his friend, Alex Crisp, when she confesses to liking him, but that’s as far as his reveals go for the night. However, he’s hiding the fact that he’s been popping pills, specifically his mother’s fentanyl.

After he and Alex hook-up, the killer exposes his secret to everyone in attendance who flee when the power goes out and they realize the killer is among them. Rodrigo does leave the Sandford house by escaping through a duct, but he doesn’t get far.

The killer stops him by the fountain, forces pills down his throat and then slits it before pushing him into the water.

Mr. Sanford

Referred to by his son, Zach, as a greedy land baron, Mr. Sanford has been a bane in the small town of Osborne for years as he’s continuously bought up the farm land around him, forcing people out of generations of land ownership. It’s turned the town against him and his family especially in light of his push to dissolve the police department in order to bring in his own security firm.

Zach has dealt with the brunt of the hatred toward his family. He’s been bullied by his classmates and is considered to be an outsider just like his group of friends. However, what no one knows is that it’s Zach who’s been killing his fellow students including his friend, Rodrigo.

This all comes to light when he has his father at sword point in a burning corn maze. Zach had intended to have a dramatic dialogue with his father, but when Makani and Ollie interrupt that plan gets tossed out the window. He stabs his father through the chin. The sword passes through to the top of Mr. Sanford’s head before Zach removes his weapon.

Zach Sanford

The reveal that the killer is Zach was, admittedly, a bit lackluster, but he got his comeuppance in the end. He’d been running amok in Osborne, donning 3D printed masks of his victim’s faces, wreaking havoc and terror.

Zach was killing and revealing his target’s secrets to expose the fact that everyone wears masks. Everyone hides who they really are and his murders were the opportunity to showcase that to the whole town. There’s also some talk about his privilege and how unfair it is that that’s held against him but that part of the film is muddled and a weak point.

Makani, rightfully, is the one who kills Zach in the end. She stabs him with his own sword when Ollie manages to distract him with a misfire of the taser he brought for protection. Makani stabs Zach again for good measure. It’s a satisfying kill considering Zach had planned to frame her for the murder of his father and Ollie had he succumbed to his wounds.