“I Am the Fairly Factor That Lives in This Home” is sort of a mouthful, as florid because the ghost-story-within-a-ghost-story narration all through the movie. As a meditation on dying from the angle of three girls, “Fairly Factor” is transfixing however not with out its flaws. The story facilities on a younger nurse caring for an aged horror novelist who lives in a picturesque and probably haunted nineteenth century Massachusetts house. It explores how the reminiscences, hopes, desires, and fears of the useless are embedded inside the partitions of our house. Oz Perkins additionally examines how simple it’s to grow to be remoted, what the characters name “rotting.” By shutting your self away from the world and basking in your loneliness, you grow to be a residing ghost.
As with lots of Oz Perkins’ movies, “Fairly Factor” is nearly painfully sluggish. The digital camera hovers on varied nooks and crannies all through the home, creating the feeling of being watched by the individuals that when roamed the halls. The narrative about Polly, the protagonist of Iris’ horror novel and the ghost that haunts her, raises intriguing questions concerning the male gaze and being valued solely for magnificence. Nevertheless, Perkins does not dig into these themes deeply sufficient. The mix of poetic and haunting photographs with very old school, novelistic narration makes this one of many actually distinctive horror movies, however maybe a bit too on the market for lots of viewers. It is all environment and little else.