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I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House

Started by Keebleman, September 10, 2018, 03:25:04 PM

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This is a ghost story written and directed by Osgood Perkins, funded by and available on Netflix.  Terrific title, great atmosphere but nothing else.  It's a horror movie for people who think they are a bit above horror movies.  The pacing is so slow it's like watching stalagmites form in real time and, for all its efforts to be different from run-of-the-mill genre items, every aspect of it is designed for creepiness; none of it makes any sense otherwise.

Paula Prentiss makes her first appearance in a movie in decades, but the casting backfires as she looks too healthy to be an eighty-something woman (which Prentiss actually is) in advanced decline.  And a crucial manifestation of the phantom towards the end is so ludicrous the tension is instantly shattered.