Osgood Perkins is now one of my top indie filmmakers.
Even though he penned the awful, terrible, no-good The Girl in the Photographs (it’s clear that the director destroyed his script), Osgood’s directorial debut, The Blackcoat’s Daughter (February), landed in my list of best genre films of 2015.
After Blackcoat, I cannot wait to see what comes next. Thankfully, we won’t have to wait long.
This morning the Toronto International Film Festival announced all of the genre films playing, including ten in the Midnight Madness programme. Part of the announcement was Perkins’ I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, which stars Academy Award Nominee Bob Balaban (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Moonrise Kingdom), Lucy Boynton (February) and Golden Globe winner Ruth Wilson (“The Affair,” Saving Mr. Banks).
“I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House follows Lily (Wilson), a young nurse hired to care for elderly Helen Bloom, a best-selling author of ghost stories who has chosen to live out her final days in her beloved country home – a home that holds an horrific ghost story of its own.”
Perkins wrote the script and directed, with principal photography having took place in Ottawa earlier this year.
