However, the story gets more frightening. At this point, it was clear to the couple that someone wanted to hurt them and negatively affect their lives. Even more unsettling was the fact that Valentine’s cards had been mailed out to every wife in the neighborhood, all from Jerry. Like in the film, Aftermath, Jerry and Janice’s mail suspiciously stopped being sent to them, and their mail box was empty for days on end, prompting them to suspect foul play.

While this was obviously strange, Jerry and Janice brushed off the strange event as nothing more than a weird prank. One of the first of these occurrences was when the couple saw their home listed on multiple realtor sites, mentioning that the house was recently put up for sale by the current owners. When the couple finally moved into the San Francisco residence, strange happenings began to occur almost immediately. Jerry and Janice had moved into a home recently put onto the market in San Francisco, with the hopes to start a new, fresh life in Northern California. While the events of the film are terrifying and outright crazy at times, they are no less crazy than the real events that occurred to the couple, Jerry Rice and Janice Ruhter.Īs Aftermath starts off with the couple Natalie and Kevin moving into a new house to rekindle their failing marriage, the real story begins similarly. Being one of the top-rated films in the country this week, Netflix’s Aftermath involves strange, unnatural occurrences that are actually based on a true story of a family being haunted by something arguably much more terrifying than a ghost… a real human being. Taking the horror world by storm, Aftermath (2021) is strikingly entertaining, with a shocking plot twist. This summer has left horror fans overwhelmed by the new selection of horror films and shows on Netflix, that have been released over the past couple months.

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