2016 · horror · mystery · supernatural
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
Directed by Osgood Perkins1h 29m2016
A young nurse takes care of an elderly author who lives in a haunted house.
Our read: I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016) reads as a heavy, slow-burn, inventive horror · mystery · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, slow-burn, measured horror / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- slow-burn
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
- intimate
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