![]() ![]() Mild-mannered, clipped Dr Faraday (Gleeson), well-spoken son of a housemaid, courts stout, oddly beautiful Caroline (Ruth Wilson), daughter of come-down-in-the-world landed gentry. And the casting is similarly on-the-nose – with Domnhall Gleeson reprising many of the buttoned-down mannerisms of his A.A. Screenwriter Lucinda Coxon also has an obviously compatible CV (The Heart of Me, The Crimson Petal and the White, The Danish Girl). Lenny Abrahamson specialises in careful, unsettling adaptations of upscale horror novels – What Richard Did, Room – and is well-matched with the material. James and Robert Aickman as models, moving on from the mid-Victorian to post-WWII, working out a genuinely supernatural premise rather than rationalising any spookiness, and – most obviously – focusing on a male viewpoint and minimising the lesbian love story. Sarah Waters’ novel The Little Stranger was a shift out of her staked-out territory – forsaking Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens for M.R. ![]()
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