Voice from the Stone (2017)
Directed by Eric D. Howell
Verena is a nurse who arrives at an old mansion in Italy to help a young boy who has fallen silent since the sudden passing of his mother.
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And it was true that — especially in regards to Usher — like in the James tale (and the film version, 1961’s The Innocents), it wasn’t the twists of plot that left viewers spellbound, it was the remarkable way in which Corman and production designer Daniel Haller created an immersive, haunted world, where every creak and whisper hit the nerves like a dagger.
At its core, Eric D. Howell's film, based on a novel by Silvio Raffo, is a 19th-century-style psychological ghost story, a genre epitomized by Henry James' 1898 classic The Turn of the Screw, memorably filmed as The Innocents (1961).
In the past two years, we’ve seen several auteurs offer big-budgeted, and decadently stylized, swings at the fading form with Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak and Gore Verbinski’s A Cure for Wellness .