I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House Reviews

7.6 - I’m in an absolute minority but I really liked this.

Oz Perkins nails the dread-filled, slow burning, creepy tone of classic gothic horror. It doesn’t have much of a conventional ending or payoff, there’s not a lot of depth to the story & it asks you to piece some of it together as the viewer. But the oppressive score & sound design, the lighting, the claustrophobic camera work, & the isolation of the characters all work together to pull off something that I would expect a lot of haunted house horror directors wish they could do.

I’m curious what Perkins is really wanting his style to be, because the differences between this, Gretel & Hansel, Longlegs, and what I expect from the trailers for The Monkey are sort of clashing in my opinion. I guess we’ll see soon enough! (Note: I still haven’t seen The Blackcoat’s Daughter.)

This is a very slow paced movie, that doesn’t even speed up towards the end. Don’t expect to be shaking in fear. It’s more of a horror that leaves you feeling empty, yet full of thoughts and questions. I think it’s a pretty and poetic movie.

This one didn’t land for me at all. It was slow, lacked scares and didn’t have a very interesting ghost story

So boring. Like I don’t think a single thing actually happened in this movie. I was spooked by one jumpscare that happened in the last twenty minutes and that was it.

very slow, usually don't mind that, wasn't enough going on for it to be so slow. writing is absolutely amazing/poetic, never seen writing like that before in a film, i'd also like to say the main characters personality is very unique i haven't seen many characters like her

Not a fan at all.

the pretty thing you are looking at is me

Man, this was so fucking boring I was getting mad lol. I've never had to force myself to sit through a movie just so I can check out more of a director's work.

boring shi

Movie was shit, story itself had potential tho

I love the cinematography for this film

As others have said SUPER SLOW, to the point where when something did happen I didn’t care and wanted it to be over.

Although it was slow I enjoyed the story telling and suspense. A good change of pace for me.

Don’t go into this thinking you’re gonna watch a “scary” movie. Yes, it’s considered a horror film, but on a more realistic, almost poetic approach for a paranormal film.
It’s slow, it relies on story telling/atmosphere, & the ending is really not that hard to get lol.

So. Freaking. Slow. 😭

5/10

I did not like this movie. During the whole movie you get the feeling that something will happen suddenly but when the movie ends you are left wanting something to happen and nothing ever happens. It is very slow and dense at times.

A little slow but very good!

I was hoping everyone was wrong. They were not. WTF did I just watch? What happened? Did I miss something? Slow burn is an understatement it was still burning when it ended bc NOTHING happened?

Pretentious, nothing happens during the whole movie (except for THAT big jumpscare), maybe it would be a good book or poem, but it’s not a movie I’d recommend