‘I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House’ Trailer: Netflix’s Latest Horror Movie Gets A Creepy Preview
If you’re looking for a new horror movie in theaters this Friday, the final Friday before Halloween, you may be out of luck. While last weekend brought us (the surprisingly well-received!)Ouija: Origin of Evil, this weekend isn’t offering much to moviegoers looking for a scare. Unless you consider athirdRobert Langdon thriller to as terrifying as I do.
But Netflix has got you covered with their latest release,I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, a haunted house movie from rising genre starOz Perkins. The trailer for the film, which will begin streaming later this week, has arrived.
Perkins (who, trivia fans should note, is the son ofPsychostar Anthony Perkins) made a splash a few years agoThe Blackcoat’s Daughter(originally titledFebruary), a slow-burning horror movie that divided audiences across the festival circuit. However, those who took to Perkins' focus on atmosphere and dreadreallytook to it, winning him a passionate band of admirers. And that brings us toI Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, a film that looks to be very much a tonal companion piece to his previous work.
Ruth Wilsonstars as Lily, a young live-in nurse assigned to look after an aging writer, Iris (Paula Prentiss, playing a riff onThe Haunting of Hill HouseandThe Lotteryauthor Shirley Jackson). Then Lily reads Iris' book, which shakes her to her core. And then the house she works in starts to… change.
And to be fair, I only know those details from the official plot synopsis. As I’d expect for a trailer selling the new Oz Perkins movie, the focus here is on atmosphere more than story.
But here’s that official synopsis, should you want to know more:
Lily (Ruth Wilson) is a naïve young nurse hired to care for aging and reclusive author Iris Bloom (Paula Prentiss) — a character based on American mystery and horror novelist Shirley Jackson — in her isolated country manor. The old woman is lost in her memories and barely acknowledges her caregiver, except to repeatedly call her “Polly,” the protagonist of her novel The Lady in the Walls. Though Lily is squeamish and easily frightened, her curiosity gets the better of her and she reads the book: the chilling story of a beautiful murdered woman. It gets under Lily’s skin, and she comes unhinged as the shadows of Iris' grand home begin to take on a more sinister appearance.
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the Housewill drop on Netflix onOctober 28, 2016.
