Stacie Passon’s sophomore feature, 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle,' stars Taissa Farmiga and Alexandra Daddario as sisters traumatized by a dark famil...

It’s no small feat to make Shirley Jackson’s eerie prose portraits of cloistered eccentrics in hostile surroundings feel like the forced whimsy of Tim Bu...

Shirley Jackson's novel is "a Gothic psychodrama that eats itself from the inside." But this adaptation proves too low-key and repetitive to build suspense a...

The strength of the film adaptation is how it offers answers to these questions without deviating from Shirley Jackson's intentions. Their expansions add lay...

First, a frightful confession: I've never read the works of heralded horror writer Shirley Jackson. My awareness of her brand of terror has come chiefly thro...

An artist, the old saying goes, “pounds the same nail, over and over again.” So the generations exposed to Shirley Jackson’s most famous work, the shor...

Taissa Farmiga, Alexandra Daddario, Sebastian Stan and Crispin Glover are electrifying in Stacie Passon's second feature

A solid, but faithful adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s gothic fairytale about two peculiar, ostracized sisters hiding a dark family secret.