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We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a 2018 American mystery thriller film directed by Stacie Passon, written by Mark Kruger, and starring Taissa Farmiga, Alexandra Daddario, Crispin Glover, and Sebastian Stan. It was based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Shirley Jackson.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a 1962 mystery novel by American author Shirley Jackson. It was Jackson's final work, and was published with a dedication to Pascal Covici, the publisher, three years before the author's death in 1965.
- Shirley Jackson
- 1962
May 17, 2019 · We Have Always Lived in the Castle: Directed by Stacie Passon. With Taissa Farmiga, Alexandra Daddario, Crispin Glover, Sebastian Stan. Merricat, Constance and their Uncle Julian live in isolation after experiencing a family tragedy six years earlier.
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- Drama, Horror, Mystery
- Stacie Passon
- 2019-05-17
Mar 10, 2024 · Based on Shirley Jackson’s 1962 novel of the same name, We Have Always Lived in the Castle tells the tale of two sisters and their uncle who take their cousin in to live with them, although that cousin threatens their entire way of living.
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle was inspired by the unsolved poisoning death of an English lawyer. Charles Bravo died of antimony poisoning in April 1876, just four months after his wedding.
- Shirley Jackson worried that We Have Always Lived in the Castle was “as unoriginal as an old sponge.” According to correspondence reviewed by Franklin, Jackson struggled with early drafts of We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
- The main characters are loosely based on Jackson’s daughters, Sarah and Joanne. According to Franklin’s book, Jackson told her older daughter, Joanne, that Constance and Merricat were loosely modeled on Joanne and her sister, Sarah.
- The sisters were originally named Constance and Jenny, and they were plotting to murder Jenny’s husband. Jackson changed the story out of concerns that readers would mistakenly assume one or both of the sisters were lesbians.
May 17, 2019 · We Have Always Lived in the Castle draws on Shirley Jackson's classic tale to deliver a skillfully crafted mystery that engrosses and unsettles in equal measure. Read Critics Reviews
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- Mystery & Thriller
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May 17, 2019 · Stacie Passon’s sophomore feature, 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle,' stars Taissa Farmiga and Alexandra Daddario as sisters traumatized by a dark family legacy.
