Synopsis
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016) 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? ??Nick Riganas

Awards: 2 nominations
Soundtrack: You Keep Coming Back Like a Song (Written by Irving Berlin)


Oz Perkins
Ruth Wilson, Paula Prentiss, Bob Balaban
2016-10-28 (Canada)
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