10 Horror Movies One Step From Perfection
9. We Have Always Lived In The Castle
Released in 2018, We Have Always Live in the Castle is for the most part a triumphant slice of creepy gothic horror which takes nowhere near as many liberties with the source material as the same year's The Haunting of Hill House miniseries, but nonetheless enjoys the same level of success
This Shirley Jackson adaptation is largely a delight, relying on a pair of superb performances from We Summon the Darkness' Alexandra Daddario and The Nun's Taissa Farmiga as odd, troubled sisters who are abhorred by their small hometown's inhabitants after the mysterious death-by-poisoning of their parents years earlier.
With stellar supporting work from I, Tonya's Sebastian Stan and reliable Hollywood weirdo Crispin Glover, the flick makes great use of its rural Irish filming locations to locate Jackson's work in the otherworldly version of America her writing centres around.
However, this one fumbles at the finish with a small scene of neighbourhood kids plaguing the protagonists which appears to misinterpret the original story’s ambiguous ending. Where the novel suggests the town have moved on and now view the still-living sisters as a sort of urban legend a generation later, regarding them with fearful respect, the film sees them still haranguing them, a pivotal change that renders a lot of the preceding story's action pointless.