Ruth Wilson and Lucy Boynton staring directly into the camera with severe expressions and blurring into each other like ghosts against a black backdrop in I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
The Big Picture Thanks to a tantalizing marketing campaign and the goodwill generated by his previous works, horror writer-director Osgood Perkins’s fourth film, Longlegs, generated hype months before it hit theaters to stellar reviews.
Release Date October 28, 2016 Director Osgood Perkins Cast Ruth Wilson , Paula Prentiss , Bob Balaban , Lucy Boynton , Brad Milne , Daniel Chichagov , Erin Boyes , Beatrix Perkins Runtime 89 Minutes Main Genre Horror Writers Osgood Perkins Expand What Is Osgood Perkins' 'I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House' About? Pretty Thing follows the last year of hospice nurse Lily Saylor's life. Her death isn't a spoiler.
Osgood Perkins Is a Master of the Slow Burn Scare To that effect, cinematographer Julie Kirkwood favors odd angles that either leave too much room, inviting wandering eyes to peer into every shadowed corner or empty space behind Lily's shoulder, or claustrophobically frames Lily off-center, cornering and trapping her with ceiling indentations, wall edges, and door frames.
Punctuated by untraceable footsteps, demonically-toned murmurings, the tremulously breath-bating score , Lily's distorted voice narrating from beyond the grave, and blurry art-house imagery of a ghost's skin unraveling off her grayed-out body — well, the result's deeply unsettling. One of the questions Perkins leaves unanswered is whether the house and its ghostly inhabitant intend harm upon its living visitors.
That said, Lily always wears a white nurse's outfit to indicate that she "can never be touched." Ghosts don't play by the rules. Surrounding Lily's last days is Polly Parsons , a character from Iris's book whom Iris insists was once her ghostly friend — making said book a true story. Nothing seems to bind these women together beyond living and dying in the same house. That's enough of an intersection to warrant Perkins' layered commentary.
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