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Synopsis

Merricat lives with her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian. The trio are survivors of an arsenic poisoning that killed everyone else in the family five years prior. Merricat is bold and imaginative, and protects the property with "spells". Despite being hated by the townspeople, the sisters live an idyllic life, until cousin Charles arrives. Charles offers to help around the house, and inquires about the family's finances. Constance is charmed by Charles, and Merricat resents Charles' intrusion. As Charles and Merricat battle for control, tragedy threatens to strike again.

Cast

  • Taissa Farmiga
  • Alexandra Daddario
  • Sebastian Stan
  • Patrick Joseph Byrnes
  • Una Carroll
  • Peter Coonan
  • Joanne Crawford
  • Crispin Glover
  • Bosco Hogan
  • Stephen Hogan

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Metacritic

63
Sep 25, 2019

We Have Always Lived in the Castle isn’t for the torture porn crowd, and R-rated horror fanatics will no doubt find it dull. They won’t be totally in the wrong for thinking so. But the rest of us can appreciate the chill and growing dread that only a most sympathetic Shirley Jackson adaptation can deliver, that only a production as accomplished as this can manage.

Metacritic review by Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Movie Nation
40
May 16, 2019

Heightened but airless, this “Castle” is like a checklist of the novel’s peculiarities, rather than its singular soul brought to life.

Metacritic review by Robert Abele
Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
80
May 16, 2019

The performances are buttressed by a production that subtly underscores the intentions of both the characters and the plot, from the costumes by Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh (“Love Friendship”) to the score from Andrew Hewitt (“The Stanford Prison Experiment”), which coax the film along to where it’s going without ever being too obvious about it.

Metacritic review by Alonso Duralde
Alonso Duralde
TheWrap