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I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
MEANRANK
46/100
Every rating
Sharply split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 24, highest is Metacritic critics on 68. Critics average 65, everyone else 41.
See the most contested films →A young nurse moves into a secluded Victorian home to care for its elderly owner, a reclusive author of ghost stories. The house is quiet and still, but the nurse soon becomes convinced it is haunted by the ghost of a woman from one of the author's books. As she delves deeper into the home's history, the line between the fictional story and her reality begins to dissolve.
Details
- Director
- Osgood Perkins
- Writer
- Osgood Perkins
- Studio
- Zed Filmworks, Go Insane Films, Paris Film
- Released
- 10 September 2016
- Country
- Canada, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Rated
- NR
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