We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018)

• Directed by Stacie Passon
• Written by Mark Kruger, Shirley Jackson
• Stars Taissa Farmiga, Alexandra Daddario, Crispin Glover
• Run Time: 1 Hour, 35 Minutes
• Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6CVyg_0iKc

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This is a weird one. Not quite horror, but certainly strange and creepy. Interesting to watch the way it’s done in flashback, and we try to figure out what’s really going on. Worth checking out for sure.

Synopsis

As credits roll, we see various characters doing things in a very torn-up old house. Merricat Blackwood begins a journal that says she lives with her sister Constance in this house; they have always lived in this house. She says a change is coming, but only she knows it.

Last Tuesday, Uncle Julian talks about the girls’ dead father. Merricat goes to town and has to deal with all the people that hate them. People in the town believe that Constance killed their father and poisoned Uncle Julian, which left him permanently physically and mentally disabled. There’s a rumor going around town that the two girls are moving away, but Merricat denies it. She’s skittish and terrified of everyone, and there may be good…