The local women are more sympathetic and supportive, but powerless. She barely survives her weekly trips into town where she faces taunting and bullying from the men and boys she meets. Merricat practices witchcraft and creates spells that are meant to protect the family and the estate from the hate-filled townspeople. The level of psychological tension in the film is a constant low level hum with an occasional explosion of emotion.Ĭonstance is a kind of Stepford wife, turning on the smiles at will, cooking and managing the household. Since then, Constance won’t leave the estate, Uncle Julian relives the deaths over and over as he attempts to write a novel about it, and Merricat treks into town once a week to buy supplies. Constance was tried for the poisoning and found innocent. The slow moving story is marked by mounting dread.Įighteen year old Merricat Blackwood (Taissa Farmiga) lives in a big house on a hill with her older sister Constance (Alexandra Daddario) and her wheelchair bound uncle Julian (Crispin Glover).Īll three are damaged and deranged, partly because of the poisoning of the Blackwood parents and Uncle Julian and his wife over dinner one night about 7 years ago. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, adapted from a Shirley Jackson novel, is a Gothic horror tale of insanity and paranoia.
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