The Little Stranger

Aug 30, 2018

1h 51m

★ 5.7

These delusions are contagious

Overview

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?

Genres

Mystery

Horror

Production Companies

Element Pictures

Film4 Productions

Dark Trick Films

Potboiler Productions

Canal+

Ciné+

Ingenious Media

Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland

Pathé

Focus Features

The Little Stranger Trailers

Cast

Dr. Faraday

Domhnall Gleeson

Caroline Ayres

Ruth Wilson

Roderick Ayres

Will Poulter

Young Faraday

Oliver Zetterström

Mrs. Ayres

Charlotte Rampling

Betty

Liv Hill

Dr. Granger

Harry Hadden-Paton

Anne Granger

Anna Madeley

Mr. Rossiter

Clive Francis

Mrs. Rossiter

Elizabeth Counsell

Miss Dabney

Sarah Crowden

Diana Baker-Hyde

Kate Phillips

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4.5

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6.6

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5.8

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8.2

Witness for the Prosecution

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7.3

Promise of death

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7.6

Cure

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5.2

Heaven's Prisoners

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5.3

Habit

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7.0

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4.6

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6.7

Cracks

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7.0

Rewrite

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6.1

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6.4

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5.4

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0.0

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6.7

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