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I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House

2016

Oz Perkins

Ruth Wilson, Lucy Boynton, Bob Balaban, Erin Boyes ...

3.5

1,449

Horror. Thriller Young nurse Lily (Ruth Wilson) is hired to care of elderly Helen Bloom, a best-selling author of ghost stories who has chosen to live out her final days in her beloved country home – a home that holds an horrific ghost story of its own.

	Author	Review
United States	Stephen Dalton The Hollywood Reporter	"Perkins has made a vintage haunted-house thriller that owes more to the creeping dread of Polanski, Kubrick or Lynch than to more bloodthirsty recent subgenres of horror"	POS
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"Wilson delivers a hardworking performance that nonetheless can't render a familiar character type fascinating enough in a vacuum, with so little support in the writing."	NEG
United Kingdom	Nigel M. Smith The Guardian	"Osgood Perkins layers on the dread in his haunted house thriller. But as it becomes clear that there’s no worthwhile story, the scares dissipate fast (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG
United States	April Wolfe Village Voice	"So chilling, so purely artistic that I found myself scribbling four full pages of notes to remember my thoughts in the darkened theater."	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"An atmospheric take on the haunted house flick that works more with dread and the looming specter of death than the traditional tropes that often define the genre (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	A.A. Dowd AV Club	"Can a horror movie get by on nothing but atmosphere, on the the je ne sais quoi of its unsettling mood? 'I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House' suggests that maybe it can."	POS

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