We Have Always Lived in the Castle

One of my favorite things about this film is that there is a bit of a discovery that takes place during the movie. As the great Patrice O'Neal once said, sometimes he wishes he knew how to watch a movie. It takes a while to figure out where this one was going - is there a mystery? Are there many mysteries? Something supernatural? Are they all delusional? I thought that the journey was fantastic and that the ending fit the movie. I really enjoyed it.

(side note - I struggle with Paula Malcomson being in movies because all I hear is the Boston accent from Ray Donovan)

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This movie is nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be, and I suspect that the ones who think it is are just impatient. Great film imo.

This movie is nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be, and I suspect that the ones who think it is are just impatient. Great film imo.

The movie is actually quite close to the novel but some things just felt off.

Sebastian was great as Charles (love him as an actor, hated him in this movie haha) and Alexandra was also a perfect choice for Constance but the girl who played Merricat did not fit the Merricat from the book. Besides that I just felt like the movie maybe should have been a bit grittier, darker. I did enjoy the movie though, I'm happy they tried to keep it close to its book although they definitely made it less heavy.

Great acting, scenery, cinematography and story telling. Ending is just not there. Ruined it for me.

A true original; this is a film quite unlike anything you have seen before. Ignore the critics on this page; yes, it's slow, but it isn't unrewarding. This treads a fine line between camp and mystery with a wonderful Crispin Glover rambling on about boxes and begrudged sausages, and the two leading ladies who, in different ways, are as cuckoo as each other.

It was a strange and dark story, but I still kept watching. I liked it.

Trakt has _WHALITC_ listed as mystery, thriller, and horror... it is none of those. This is barely a drama. It feels like a mystery, but what makes a mystery is having a buildup to a large reveal at the end - that's not here.
I wanted to see this because I like Daddario, and Farmiga, which is fortunate because they are the focus of the film; trouble is, the movie is really just two sisters living in a house for a week. That's it.
I read through the other "reviews" here - if you can call them that - and most of them boil down to "come on guys, the movie's good. Okay?" While that is a great point, I still found the movie boring. I'd want to call it a slow burn, but there is never a burn - not even when the house is on fire.
I also understand that this is based on a book. I have never read the book, and, surprise, I don't have to. The point of an adaptation is to make it entertaining in the given format (e.g., a movie).
I'll move on to the direction/acting here: The movie does have a great, creepy gothic feel to it; trouble is, being that this is set in the 1960s, but in a small town, and centered around sisters who seem frozen in time, it just feels anachronistic.
Okay, the acting is good, but Daddario is really not the right person for the role: she's playing her part like a traumatized Stepford wife.
The real star here is Farmiga: she's so awkward and weird - seriously, put her in a black dress, and she's Wednesday Addams.
Everyone else is just kind of there.
This is another one of those movies that feels like it wanted to be a stage play.
Ultimately, it just doesn't work. There is no story.

NOTE FOR MYSELF SO I REMEMBER SOMEDAY, ONLY REPRESENTS MY OPINION/THOUGHTS FOR MYSELF NOT A “REAL REVIEW“, SO YOU PROBABLY WONT AGREE WITH IT
(also its not my 1st language)

[spoiler] 5.5
a -for me- pretty forgettable movie, lost concentration multiple times and didn't get the point of this movie. (If you'd ask me what it is about or what happened I would've had no idea) Im not saying this movie is absolutely bad, but its definitely not for me.
but the acting, especially from Daddario was very good. [/spoiler]

meh just doesn't have the same creep factor and suspense as the book but thank you for sebastian stan's titys also I really can't stand crispin glover he creeps me out and felt miscast as uncle julian imo I think taissa was also miscast