7/6/2023 0 Comments The little stranger book![]() ![]() ![]() It's a movie that would much rather be taken quite seriously. ![]() ![]() Written by Lucinda Coxon ( The Danish Girl) and directed by Lenny Abrahamson ( Room), The Little Stranger could have been a fun, prickly story of ghostly happenings, but its makers seem to shy away from any elements that would turn it into a horror movie. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weeklyĪdapted from a novel by Sarah Waters, this gothic noir is well made, with eerie camera moves and cuts, but it also seems stuck in an air of tastefulness it never manages to get the blood flowing. The movie is well made but perhaps also a little stiff for some genre fans still, older teens and up with sophisticated tastes may like it. There are also scenes of adults drinking socially and smoking language is limited to single uses of "ass" and "hell." A man and a woman kiss and grope each other in a car, and there's some sex-related dialogue. A young girl is seen drinking alcohol at a party and claims to have smoked a cigarette. One person is covered in burn scars, a mother slaps a young boy, and characters sometimes rage angrily, smashing glasses or gulping down whiskey. There's a lot of blood: A little girl is mauled by a dog (the mauling happens offscreen, but she's shown with bloody wounds), characters are sliced open by broken glass, and characters die. Parents need to know that The Little Stranger is a gothic noir film that's set in the 1940s and based on a novel by Sarah Waters. ![]()
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