<P> Writer - director Osgood Perkins originally intended for the story to be about the daughter of a male horror novelist, but he said that "one day, it just changed". Casting became easier once the film was financed; Perkins cited Wilson's talent and excitement for the project as two of the reasons she was chosen to play Lily . Prentiss--a family friend who, as well as her husband Richard Benjamin, had performed with Perkins' father, Anthony Perkins--was the director's only choice to play Iris . </P> <P> I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2016 . It debuted on Netflix on October 28 . </P> <P> Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 64% of nine surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 4.3 / 10 . Dennis Harvey of Variety wrote that the film's atmosphere cannot overcome its minimalist and familiar writing . Stephen Dalton of The Hollywood Reporter called it "classy vintage horror with a literary flavor" and compared it to the works of David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, and Roman Polanski. April Wolfe of The Village Voice described it as "the most atmospherically faithful adaptation ever of a Shirley Jackson book that never existed" and concluded that the film was "the very best of gothic horror ." In rating it 2 / 5 stars, Nigel M. Smith of The Guardian wrote, "Osgood Perkins layers on the dread in his haunted house thriller . But as it becomes clear that there's no worthwhile story, the scares dissipate fast ." A.A. Dowd of The A.V. Club called it a creepy, slow burn drama that works despite its lack of a conventional payoff . </P>

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