
Stained by the brutal death of a young woman, the tranquil and vacant New England mansion of the prolific horror authoress, Iris Blum, has become her silent prison. To take care of the ageing writer who suffers from chronic dementia, the property's manager hires the gentle and soft-spoken live-in hospice nurse, Lily Saylor; however, this is far from an ordinary job. Little by little, Lily's imagination will run wild, as shadowy sightings of eerie female spectres blur the frai... (Full plot summary below)
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Stained by the brutal death of a young woman, the tranquil and vacant New England mansion of the prolific horror authoress, Iris Blum, has become her silent prison. To take care of the ageing writer who suffers from chronic dementia, the property's manager hires the gentle and soft-spoken live-in hospice nurse, Lily Saylor; however, this is far from an ordinary job. Little by little, Lily's imagination will run wild, as shadowy sightings of eerie female spectres blur the frail boundaries between reality and fantasy, fable and truth. Iris has talked about man's coexistence with the spectral realm in her novels that chill the bone to the marrow. Could her secluded white house at the end of the road be an aerial limbo caught in the middle of life and death?
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| Village VoiceApril WolfeI Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House is the very best of gothic horror, that which needles at your insecure core and whispers in your ear what you already suspected: You will never be all right. |
| RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoMost importantly, this is not a film to be “solved.” It is a mood piece made by someone constantly playing with structure, but never in a way that calls overt attention to itself. |
| The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonI Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House is a lightly gothic murder ballad made with great finesse and a fine cast. |
| Consequence of SoundRandall ColburnWhat’s clear in Perkins’ second feature is that he’s clearly become aware that his talents as a visual storyteller outweigh his skill with narrative. He’s leaning into that, and while it might make for a more “difficult” film, it’s ultimately a more satisfying one. |
| Bloody DisgustingJoe LipsettA brazen, confident sophomore effort from Osgood Perkins |
| The Young FolksDonald Strohman... even if the narrative doesn't break any boundaries in its rather serviceable story, it still ultimately makes for an interesting enough late night Netflix escape. |
| AV ClubA.A. DowdPerkins commits even harder to his singularly strange approach to the genre, turning a simple ghost story into an exercise in extremely prolonged unease. It could give Norman Bates the willies. |
| Cinema MovilFernando Santoyo TelloThe tedious images and whispers that flood the film are not enough to keep the public's interest. [Full review in Spanish] |
| We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoA few images sear with the burning sensation of undead terror, but that only accounts for a few short minutes of an otherwise more-daunting-than-it-should-be cinematic exploration of death. |
| ComingSoon.netChris AlexanderIt's uncompromising. And it cements Perkins as one of the most exciting architects of intelligent, artful genre films working today. |