Jack in the Box: Awakening (2022)

Amy goes to a large estate to meet with the owners son about starting a job.  She is told she will share a room with a man and woman on the staff, and her duties are the upkeep of the manor, mostly cleaning and ironing.  Oddly enough they also state they don’t charge for the room or any meals. Would anyone actually take a job where you are required to live on the property and pay for room and board? Usually that would be part of the compensation.

Meanwhile on the top floor, Olga the matriarch of the family who is ill with cancer, has purchased a giant jack in the box.  If the box is opened, it can grant a wish but the cost of the wish is six lives.  So it’s a bad time for Amy to start working at the manor since there are only three servants and apparently it is easy to explain missing workers.

There is an awkward scene when Amy first meets fellow servants Janet and Frank, who are playing chess. When they ask if Amy knows how to play, she say yes. Then she goes on to tell them she learned at the orphanage and it led to her believe she could escape, which she did, but then she came back since it was about proving she could do it.  Hey Amy, stop making people uncomfortable. Get to know people a bit before you spring orphanage stories on them.

Ridiculous dialogue from the rich directed at those they perceive as peasants:

We don’t charge for the room or even any meals you’re provided with. You’re treated in many ways as a part of the family. All we ask in return is that you follow our rules, strictly.

Opening the front gate requires going outside,
using a key, and flipping a lever