I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House: Film Analysis

In the time that it has been generating its own content, Netflix has experienced wild success. With original shows such as Orange Is the New Black, Stranger Things, and House of Cards, the streaming service has become semi self-sufficient while garnering support from the public and critics alike.

However, while Netflix has enjoyed hit after hit with its in-house television shows, it has not experienced anything remotely similar on the movie front. While some of Netflix’s original films have received positive reviews, it is hard to think of any which captivated the world in the same way as Making a Murder or, more recently, The Keepers.

While the most loyal of Netflix’s subscribers will dutifully watch every movie and ensure they get their monthly
The film received predominantly negative reviews from critics due to its unoriginality and failure to elevate the genre in any way. One critic somewhat wittily observed that Mascots does not, despite Guest’s efforts, “go up to 11”.

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I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House premiered as part of the Toronto International Film Festival in 2016 before being acquired and subsequently made available for world viewing by Netflix in October of that year. The movie follows Ruth Wilson as she plays a live-in nurse who encounters a series of inexplicable, increasingly creepy goings-on at the house of her elderly patient.

The movie was panned by critics for a variety of reasons, not least of all the almost inescapable reminders of its low budget. A common complaint from Netflix subscribers who managed to sit through the entirety of the film is that is that it is slow-moving and is totally lacking in its payoff, which comes after 87 minutes (though it certainly feels like much