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Malice Domestic Norton and Seyfried play a couple whose marriage deteriorates in their creepy new home in this attempt at an arty scare flick.
Our streaming entertainment options are overwhelming — and not always easy to sort through. Certain people have a bottomless appetite for haunted-house stories, and Netflix knows I'm one of them. But what really convinced me to watch the streaming service's latest glossy gothic was that its opening credits feature a slideshow of Hudson River School paintings, including Thomas Cole's four-part allegory
The Voyage of Life.
I saw Cole's haunting series when I was a child at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, N.Y., and it shaped my view of life and death alike. At the time, my family were Manhattan transplants living in a remote, ramshackle farmhouse in upstate New York — much like the family in this movie, based on Elizabeth Brundage's novel