<em>The Little Stranger </em>Is a Different Kind of Haunted-House Movie
Lenny Abrahamson’s adaptation of Sarah Waters’s novel stars Domhnall Gleeson as a doctor who gets wrapped up with a decaying aristocratic family in postwar Britain.
What better setting for a ghost story than a dilapidated mansion? Peeling paint, groaning pipes, creaky stairs, and abandoned rooms—you barely need a phantom to complete the picture. Recent onscreen hauntings have included Guillermo del Toro’s excellent in 2015, set in a manse where red mud dripped from the walls, or Ari Aster’s , with its creepy dollhouses and even creepier mid-century modern home. Hundreds Hall, the main venue of , has all the makings of a classic haunted house.
