Doctor Omega
Member: Rank 10
The Little Stranger
Director: Lenny Abrahamson (“Room,” “Frank”)
Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Will Poulter, Charlotte Rampling
Details: Three for three in many critical circles with “What Richard Did,” “Frank” and “Room,” Irish filmmaker Lenny Abrahamson’s fourth feature adapts Sarah Waters’ 2009 gothic chiller which ditches her usual LGBT themes in favour of both an examination of the class system’s disintegration in postwar Britain and a good old fashioned ghost yarn in the vein of Shirley Jackson, Henry James and Edgar Allan Poe’s works.
Domhnall Gleeson plays a respectable country doctor in 1947 who is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked. The place is now in decline and the family who own it and are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life. Cue unexpected dog attacks, strange sounds, burn marks and writing on the walls – the kind of scares that could be the work of someone playing a sick game – or something more. Chuck in exceptional casting with Ruth Wilson, Will Poulter and Charlotte Rampling and you have something potentially exceptional.
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