The Little Stranger
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Synopsis
Based on the Sarah Waters novel of the same name, director Lenny Abrahamson (Room, Frank) tries his hand at some good ol’ fashioned gothic horror with The Little Stranger. During the summer of 1948, Dr. Faraday (Domhnall Gleeson) is called to treat a patient at a Hundreds Hall, a declining country estate he remembers from his childhood. The Ayres family has owned the manor for generations, but now it appears to be crumbling around Mrs. Ayres (Charlotte Rampling) and her children Catherine (Ruth Wilson) and Roderick (Will Poulter). Oh, and the family might also be haunted by something more menacing than the memories of their family’s former glory. As the mysteries of their past continue to invade their present, will Faraday find a reasonable explanation for what torments the Ayres?
Cast
- Domhnall Gleeson
- Will Poulter
- Ruth Wilson
- Liv Hill
- Charlotte Rampling
- Oliver Zetterström
- Kathryn O'Reilly
- Eddie Toll
- Camilla Arfwedson
- Tipper Seifert-Cleveland
Atom User Reviews
Great movie, slow moving
Kinna boring and slow. Still confuse
Metacritic
A kind of gothic, ghostly mash-up of Downton Abbey and Grey Gardens, The Little Stranger is as mannered, tattered and morose as that marriage of premises suggests.
The Little Stranger is fluently made and really well acted, particularly by Ruth Wilson, though maybe a bit too constrained by period-movie prestige to be properly scary.
In truth, The Little Stranger is barely a horror movie at all. It’s more of an impeccably crafted chamber drama with a supernatural bent, like Edith Wharton by way of Shirley Jackson.