Movie
Name/Year: We
Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Length: 90 minutes
Rating: NR
Production/Distribution: Mighty Engine, Furthur
Films, Albyn Media, Front Row Filmed Entertainment, Brainstorm Media, Kinostar
Filmverleih
Director: Stacie Passon
Writer: Mark Kruger, Shirley
Jackson
Actors: Taissa Farmiga, Alexandra
Daddario, Crispin Glover, Sebastian Stan, Paula Malcomson, Peter Coonan, Ian
Toner, Joanne Crawford, Anna Nugent, Peter O’Meara, Luan James Geary, Cormac
Melia, Liz O’Sullivan, Bosco Hogan, Stephen Hogan, Una Carroll, Patrick Joseph
Byrnes, John Andrew O’Rourke
Blurb
from IMDb: Merricat,
Constance and their Uncle Julian live in isolation after experiencing a family
tragedy six years earlier. When cousin Charles arrives to steal the family
fortune, he also threatens a dark secret they've been hiding.
Selina’s
Point of View:
Just
from watching this film I can see how it would work MUCH better as a book.
I
tend to give book adaptations the benefit of the doubt. Not everyone enjoys
reading, or has the imagination necessary for it, so I understand why someone
would want to take a great story and expose more people to it. In this case, I’m
more inclined to lean toward the ‘don’t adapt this’ method of thinking.
The
acting was phenomenal. Taissa Farmiga (American Horror Story, The Nun, Rules
Don’t Apply), Alexandra Daddario (We Summon the Darkness, When We First
Met, Baywatch), Crispin Glover (American Gods, The Con is On, Influence)
and Sebastian Stan (Logan Lucky, The Martian, Captain America: Civil War)
were all perfectly wonderful in their parts. It’s not their fault I feel the
way I do. Equally, the plot is an incredible look at mob mentality. Shirley
Jackson’s (The Haunting of Hill House, The Lottery, American Playhouse)
brain-child is not at fault either.
The
problem is that, even though the story was fine, the pacing was outstandingly
bad. I felt every single minute of that hour and a half. Halfway through the
movie I felt like I had been watching it for longer than I’d been awake.
I
think this is one of those cases where I have to advise people to pick up the
book and skip the film.
Rotten
Tomatoes Critic Score – 89%
Rotten
Tomatoes Audience Score – 54%
Metascore – 63/100
Metacritic
User Score – 5.9/10
IMDB
Score – 5.6/10
CinemaScore – None
Trust
the Dice: Selina’s Rating – 2.5/5
Trust-the-Dice’s
Parental Advisory Rating:
PG-13
Movie
Trailer:
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