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The Little Stranger (2018)

Bald Move Prestige

Bald Move

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.5942 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Jim and I had high hopes for The Little Stranger, thinking it would be an ultra atmospheric mash up of The Witch with Downton Abbey. Instead, we got a commentary on upper class angst during the 1940’s as their fortunes crumbled alongside their estates masquerading as a dull, drab little ghost story. At no point does the film ever manage to generate anything but mild disquiet and malaise. Which is a shame, because all the pieces were there for genuine horror. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, welcome to another bald movie.

0:01.9

Tonight, Jim and I searched high and low

0:04.9

to see the Little Helper, a Gothic horror movie

0:09.8

set in the 1940s around a failing British estate and the house that is crumbling around the remaining last few members of the family.

0:22.0

I was really excited to see this film Jim.

0:27.0

Yeah. I was expecting like, Down Abbey crossed with the witch.

0:31.0

That kind of really atmospheric horror and I feel like if you are your expectations are that

0:39.0

dial them down because this is certainly a ghost story.

0:45.0

And I don't think it's a spoiler because it's billed as a gothic ghost story, but it's

0:50.6

rem-

0:51.6

If you can tell it's a ghost story by the ringing bells in the trailer.

0:54.0

Right, right, right.

0:55.0

I don't know what calibration you got going, but it needs to be changed.

0:58.0

It needs to be slightly, you need to turn a dial towards ghost.

1:01.0

Yeah.

1:01.6

Okay. It is a g It is a ghost story and is gothic but I found it remarkably not scary.

1:09.4

Yeah. It was interesting and a really weird kind of slice of like like you because I love

1:18.0

downtown Abbey. This is like downtown Abbey in 20 years after you know Lord Grantham has fucked up the money one more time and

1:27.8

everything is just crumbling and it's just the British gentry, you know, mourning their fate.

1:34.3

Uh, what did you think of it?

1:38.4

I thought this movie was remarkably boring.

1:41.7

I, I don't know about you but I had this movie's number pulled

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