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Jan 28, 2022 · But this spoof gets lost in those influences somewhere along the way. Kristen Bell plays Anna, the titular woman, who numbs her traumatic past with booze and pills and failed casseroles.
- Proma Khosla
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- Rear Window
- The Woman in The Window
- The Girl on The Train
- Rebecca
- Sharp Objects
- The Bad Seed
- Dark Places
- Various Lifetime Movies
- Honorable Mentions
Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window is often considered the gold standard of psychological murder mysteries. The often imitated plot involves a man named Jeff (James Stewart) whose broken leg has left him house-bound, similar to Anna’s fear of rain, which prevents her from traveling too far from home. Desperate for entertainment, both Jeff and Anna begi...
While Hitchcock may have created the original housebound protagonist witnessing a murder through their window, The Woman in the House takes most of its inspiration from another Hitchcock-inspired Netflix thriller. The Woman in the Window starring Amy Adams was ripe for parody after it became one of the most disappointing movies of 2021. The similar...
In 2016’s The Girl on the Train, which was adapted again in 2021, another woman is gaslighted into thinking that the crime she witnessed didn’t actually happen. Both protagonists are once again alcoholics. Anna loses her child and Girl on the Trainprotagonist Rachel (Emily Blunt) discovers she cannot have children. They both think they witnessed a ...
The remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca covers different themes than The Woman in the House, however, manipulation and gaslighting are common tropes seen in both. The titular Rebecca is the new wife rather struggling against the lingering memory of her spouse’s ex-wife. Both women are manipulated and gaslighted. Anna is gaslighted so heavily that ...
Most of Gillian Flynn’s screen adaptations could justifiably be on this list, and Sharp Objects is no exception. It stars actor Amy Adamsonce again as a woman who falls into the role of investigating a murder. There is a series of killings in both, and the murders are committed by a character many viewers might not have expected.
The reveal that the killer is a child may be borrowed from The Woman in the Window’s teenage sociopath, but it’s also inspired by The Bad Seed. In the 1956 film, a murderous little girl is responsible for a string of deaths. While all three antagonists happen to be under 18, the storyline of having a little girl be responsible for not one but sever...
Dark Places is another Flynn adaptation and stars Charlize Theron. While the actual plot is not the same as the previous entries on this list, it still centers around a woman taking it upon herself to investigate a murder mystery. In Dark Places, the protagonist is attempting to find out whether or not her brother committed the murders for which he...
It is hard for viewers to ignore the feeling that The Woman in the House could be taken straight from the Lifetime channel, which is known for showing various women thrust into dangerous situations. Buell’s subplot is also reminiscent of a Lifetime original which will generally involve a creepy yet kind and innocent red herring. The female lead ten...
There are multiple other films and television series that The Woman in the Housemight have taken inspiration from. These examples are only mildly related to the plot of the limited series, but audiences have speculated that they may have influenced the show nonetheless. The Woman in Cabin 10 – Those who read the book have been patiently waiting for...
Jan 28, 2022 · Did Lisa Really Die in The Woman in the House Across the Street…? Unfortunately, Shelley Hennig will never be returning to this universe.
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Jan 28, 2022 · The Gist: Anna Whitaker (Kristen Bell) pads around her huge house all alone, in her robe, taking pills and pouring entire bottles of wine into a massive glass. She plaintively looks out her front...
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Jan 4, 2022 · The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window is a spoof of this trend of crime thriller from the writing team of Nobodies and Mike Tyson Mysteries (Hugh Davidson, Larry Dorf and Rachel Ramras) and produced by Jessica Elbaum, Brittney Segal, Will Ferrell and Bell.
Jan 28, 2022 · At least Kristen Bell’s Netflix crime thriller comedy thing is a well-studied spoof. But did The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window study hard enough?
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Jan 26, 2022 · The series isn’t based on any particular novel but it’s never entirely clear whether this is meant to be perceived as an out-and-out spoof of the women in peril/detective features (a la...
