History Film / ThisHouseHasPeopleInIt

* StylisticSuck: The website for the Sculptor's Clayground is riddled with typos, broken HTML parsing, and 90's clip art. This carries onto the production of the actual Sculptor's Clayground show, which would be right at home with the many fake infomercials seen on Creator/AdultSwim. The Boomy flash game is this as well, looking like something you'd find on Website/{{Newgrounds}}.

''This House Has People In It'' is a 2016 short film written and directed by [[Creator/WhamCity Alan Resnick]] and distributed by Creator/AdultSwim. Like other Adult Swim Infomercials such as ''Film/TooManyCooks'', it was aired at 4 AM from March 15th to March 19th, followed by Resnick's earlier piece ''Film/UneditedFootageOfABear''. [[Main/FoundFootage Shot from a series of security cameras inside one family's home]], what seems to be a simple bout of adolescent protest turns out to be something much more.

In addition to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-pj8OtyO2I original short]], there is a [[http://absurveillancesolutions.com/ website for the surveillance company]] with some [[Main/AlternateRealityGame ARG elements]] as well as a [[http://thesculptorsclayground.com/ homepage]] for the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=453wgsWT5Ao Sculptor's Clayground]].

*** The Sculpter's Clayground also has a jumpcut on the footage of the potter's wheel--it cuts from a small start to a pot to what looks like a metal rod sticking straight up with clay shaped oddly around it. This greatly resembles, from the final episode of {{WebVideo/Alantutorial}}, [[spoiler:the stumps of meat on spinning rods found in the room.]]

* BadLiar: The sculptor; pretty much anything he says is a lie or contradiction. Yucky Ear in itself is just a very bad photoshop he appears to have made.

* GiftedlyBad: "The Sculptor", who goes so far as to run his own sculpting TV show called "The Sculptor's Clayground", can't actually make decent clay sculptures. Everything he makes is all turns out to be a lumpy, misshapen mess at best with random sticks, rhinestones and paint splatters for good measure. He doesn't even put it into a kiln to harden it - he leaves it in a doughy mess. Despite this, he's delusional enough to feature several pictures of his art on his website, which claims that his art was sold to rich patrons or "a collection of good art".

* JustForPun: The Sculptor's clay puns, starting with the very name of his show-- "The Sculptors ''Clay''-ground."

** Whatever happened in the third Lynks Newsletter about taking some Lynksers outside to see how being outside affects them.[[spoiler:Whatever happened scared Tom to the point he does NOT want to go outside and shows very odd behavior when retrieving one of the repairman's tools from the front porch.]]

* DaylightHorror: Nearly all of the videos, including the main video, take place in broad daylight in a normal-looking household, and even ones that take place during night are made extremely bright.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Implied with the entire family, but incredibly explicit with Tom and Anne. Much more pronounced in the extra footage from the site. Madison might actually be the best adjusted of them... [[spoiler:...until she starts sinking into the floor, anyway.]]

* AmbiguousDisorder: Implied with the entire family, but incredibly explicit with Tom and Ann. Much more pronounced in the extra footage from the site. Madison might actually be the best adjusted of them... [[spoiler:...until she starts sinking into the floor, anyway.]]

* CentralTheme: Perception and how it's shaped. Characters will frequently acknowledge things that aren't there or fail to acknowledge things which ''are'' there, which extends to characters disagreeing over what they see (the most extreme example being Tom and Ann disagreeing over whether it's daytime or nighttime in one audio clip). In addition, all of the house's supernatural events are implicitly attributed to a [[spoiler:ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve]] situation, with the family being tormented because [[spoiler:they believe that they will be]]. This even extends to the viewer themselves; the confusing nature of the story only arises because the whole of it isn't shown.

* DrivenToMadness: The family and repairman, as "Lynks Disease" spreads amongst the family; from weird face-touching rituals, to short-term memory loss, to Tom apparently losing control of his own body, the family and Dennis go crazy.

* EldritchLocation: The house itself possibly since anyone who comes near it or goes inside appears to be affected by whatever Lynks Disease possibly is. [[spoiler: At the end of the video, everyone who came to Jackson's birthday party are suddenly laying down like Madison.]] Also, the house may have bizarre gravity properties to it as there are times Tom and others are entirely unable to get up at all despite the effort of someone else trying to help lift or pick them up. Could also tie into AlienGeometry if the one audio file is to be believed. [[spoiler:Is there really a third floor or did Anne forget the second floor exists?]]

** Within the main video itself, there are several split-second images occasionally flashing between camera cuts, including, but not limited to: 2 men stepping out from behind two trees in the backyard, a blue-ish creature running past the camera [[spoiler: which seems to be Boomy the Cat in real life]], the front yard at night [[spoiler:which appears to have somebody standing menacingly in the distance]], a shot of the living room with the TV [[spoiler:showing what appears to be the room itself from a different angle]], and... [[http://i.imgur.com/6j69xTg.png whatever the hell this is]].
** The log videos on the website also have these on occasion. Several of them have hidden images of Boomy the Cat in or around the house, while two logs[[note]]the one with Tom wearing Jackson's shirt and the one with Tom revealing the Christmas tree[[/note]] have a split second image of Tom and Ann in the back yard, with Tom doing jumping jacks and Ann chopping down a tree with a machete.

* GiftedlyBad: "The Sculptor", who goes so far as to run his own sculpting TV show called "The Sculptor's Clayground", can't actually make decent clay sculptures. Everything he makes is all turns out to be a lumpy, misshapen mess at best with random sticks, rhinestones and paint splatters for good measure. He doesn’t even put it into a kiln to harden it - he leaves it in a doughy mess. Despite this, he's delusional enough to feature several pictures of his art on his website, which claims that his art was sold to rich patrons or "a collection of good art".

* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:Whatever the pink human is that seems to be wearing the missing bed sheets from Jackson's bed. It shows up at several points in the main video and the shorter hidden videos. Escalates in the last hidden video where it enters Tom and Ann's bedroom, terrifying them.]] Could also be what Tom and Ann end up screaming in fear at during some of the audio logs. It may also have supernatural abilities as after it "mows" the lawn at night, Tom is no longer able to lift the mower despite all his efforts. Another possibility is it could be [[spoiler:the Lynks Disease given human form that came to exist the more the family believes they have the disease]]. It likely appears before Tom and Ann in the last video clip because [[spoiler:they believe strongly they do have Lynks Disease and it is going to continue terrifying them because of it]].

* MysteriousWatcher: Two men are seen at several points and are possibly the same men who [[spoiler:beat up the repairman right outside the living room]], which neither Tom or Ann [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight seem to notice]].

** What are Tom and Ann screaming in fear at at the end of several of their calls? [[spoiler:The pink thing?]]

** Ann's doctor, who heavily hints that [[spoiler:Lynks Disease is not real]] and that he is getting annoyed by her constantly bringing in blood samples to test for the disease.

* QuicksandSucks: While the exact circumstances are very [[SurrealHorror surreal]], the panic and terror of two parents realizing their child is prone and stuck to the floor [[spoiler: [[FromBadToWorse then slowly sinking through it]]]] is shown to be very, very real.

* RunningGag: Aside from the pizza mentioned in TrademarkFavoriteFood, occasional audio and video logs will have Ann comment that a character in the book she's reading died, either nonchalantly or enough to drive her to tears.
* SanitySlippage: Tom and the grandmother appear to be the most affected by whatever is going on, with Ann not far behind.

*** The Sculpter’s Clayground also has a jumpcut on the footage of the potter’s wheel--it cuts from a small start to a pot to what looks like a metal rod sticking straight up with clay shaped oddly around it. This greatly resembles, from the final episode of {{WebVideo/Alantutorial}}, [[spoiler:the stumps of meat on spinning rods found in the room.]]

* StalkerWithACrush: The grandmother towards the repairman, possibly. She has pictures of him on her tablet device that she is happy seeing and is later seen entering the house in another segment in handcuffs, trying to hide that she is handcuffed from Ann.

** [[spoiler:Madison]], which neither Ann or Tom notice for several minutes before thinking she's just making a scene. [[spoiler:She's stuck to the floor and seems to be in a trance before she starts slowly [[FromBadtoWorse falling through the floor...]]]]

** The intro for ''The Sculptor's Clayground'' has the sculptor looking at images of a horse and an apple next to each other. As noted with StealthPun above, [[spoiler: Horse apples are the more formal way of saying "horseshit" or "bullshit"]].
** The sculptor in the ''Sculptor's Clayground'' intro keeps having glasses or sunglasses cover his eyes because [[spoiler:he does not want the viewer to see the truth.]] This point extends to Tom and Ann discussing Tom getting or needing glasses while [[spoiler:the repairman is being beaten up right outside their window]].