Lily, the main character in this film, is from Altoona, PA. I grew up about 20 minutes from Altoona so I'm going to give you some fun facts that I remember about that town:
1) Sheetz started there. If you're not familiar with Sheetz, it started the whole Made To Order gas station food thing. The main strip of Altoona has something like six Sheetz that you can all see from each other. It's also Western PA's version of Wawa.
2) It's known for the Horseshoe Curve which is just a horseshoe shaped section of train track in the mountains. I rode a train on it in fifth grade as a class trip. It wasn't impressive.
3) Benzel's Pretzels started there.
4) It had a Chuck E Cheese's which had the arcade game Crossbow and my friend Dustin and I would go as adults and play the shit out of it.
5) There's a bowling alley there that I ordered a cheeseburger at in 1999 and since then it has remained the best burger I've ever eaten in my life.
It's pretty bad when I'm more interested in telling you about Altoona than talk about this movie.
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House is a Netflix original that I wish they wouldn't have made and put that money back in to doing another season of Sense 8. Lily is a nurse/caretaker for the elderly and she has been sent to the North East to take care of an author nearing the end of her life. From what I could gather there is a ghost that haunts the house named Polly. Her body is hidden in the wall after her husband killed her in early 19XX or late 18XX. I don't know for sure. Time is really an illusion when it comes to this movie because we find out that Lily had been working there for a year at one point and I have no idea how that passage of time happened beyond three days. The ghost starts fucking with Lily and it's dumb.
Most of this movie's exposition is done in voice over from Lily but it's done in that way where it seems like she's trying to seem more interesting than she is. When she's reading one of the author's books it becomes even more apparent because the book is so well written in comparison to the dialog. The writer (and director) of this movie wrote both things, why could they not see that one makes the other sound pretentious and annoying?
I think that this film was written with an "ABC" concept. We have "A" with "B" and "C" is the outcome but everything in-between is filler. Very dimly lit, monotone, and boring filler just oozing out of the cracks.
I give I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House 0 Casper comics out of 5:
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