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* AdaptationNameChange: Faraday's friend/colleague Dr. Graham becomes Dr. Granger in the movie.
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** [[https://www.dreadcentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/The-Little-Stranger-1.jpg One of the posters]] for the film shows Mrs. Ayres, Faraday and Caroline before a painting of Hundreds Hall; [[spoiler:boy Faraday can be seen in the painting, as if he were part of the house]].
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* TitleDrop: The book mentions the "little stranger" twice, including at the very ending.
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* TitleDrop: The book mentions the "little stranger" twice, including at the very ending.end.
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* InadequateInheritor: Faraday privately considers Roderick unfit to run the estate, and a lot of the locals agree with him.
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* IllGirl: Suki, the eldest Ayres child, who died before the events of the novel.
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* DoggedNiceGuy: Faraday's determined pursuing of Caroline, who is clearly not as interested in the relationship as he is.
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* DoggedNiceGuy: Faraday's determined pursuing of Faraday pursues Caroline, who is clearly not as interested in the relationship as he is.
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* DoggedNiceGuy: Faraday's determined pursuing of Caroline, who is clearly not as interested in the relationship as he is.
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* EntitledToHaveYou: This was ten-year-old Faraday's feeling towards Hundreds Hall:
-->''It was simply that, in admiring the house, I wanted to possess a piece of it — or rather, as if the admiration itself, which I suspected a more ordinary child would not have felt, entitled me to it.''
-->''It was simply that, in admiring the house, I wanted to possess a piece of it — or rather, as if the admiration itself, which I suspected a more ordinary child would not have felt, entitled me to it.''
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** To Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde, as detailed above.
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** To Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde, ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'', as detailed above.
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* ScarsAreForever: Roderick is badly scarred after a plane crash in [=WWII=].
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->''"And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed."''
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** In the book, after the fire attributed to Roderick, Caroline asks: “Can't people do hurtful things, sometimes, and not even know they're doing them?”
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* ShoutOut:
** To Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde, as detailed above.
** To Creator/EmilyDickinson, described by Mrs. Ayres as "a rather exhausting poet".
** Roderick is named after the central character of ''Literature/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher''.
** When they were little, Caroline and Rod were inspired to stop all the clocks at Hundreds Hall after reading ''Literature/GreatExpectations''.
** To Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde, as detailed above.
** To Creator/EmilyDickinson, described by Mrs. Ayres as "a rather exhausting poet".
** Roderick is named after the central character of ''Literature/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher''.
** When they were little, Caroline and Rod were inspired to stop all the clocks at Hundreds Hall after reading ''Literature/GreatExpectations''.
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* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:For all his life, Faraday had wanted to be accepted among the nobility; however, even as a successful doctor, he can't help but feel like "the help" at high-society parties. He is also understandably miffed by the Ayreses' inability to keep the house in good shape, and their somewhat mocking attitudes towards the lower classes]].
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* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:For all his life, Faraday had wanted to be accepted love and acceptance, specifically acceptance among the nobility; gentry; however, even as a successful doctor, he can't help but feel like "the help" at high-society parties. He is also understandably miffed by the Ayreses' inability to keep the house in good shape, and their somewhat mocking attitudes towards the lower classes]].
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* LoveHungry: The film's director, Lenny Abrahamson, describes Faraday as "desperately longing for love and acceptance" but not knowing how to get it.
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* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: While he's not a villain per se ([[spoiler:...probably]]}, Dr. Faraday is revealed to be an obsessive, misogynistic, judgmental man primarily motivated by greed and resentment.
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* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: While he's not a villain per se ([[spoiler:...probably]]}, probably]]), Dr. Faraday is revealed to be an obsessive, misogynistic, judgmental man primarily motivated by greed and resentment.
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* SelfMadeMan: Faraday, of working class origins, is a successful doctor, in contrast to the Caroline and Rod Ayres, who were born into wealth and nobility but are now barely making ends meet.
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* SelfMadeMan: Faraday, of working class origins, is a successful doctor, in contrast to the Caroline and Rod Ayres, who were born into wealth and nobility but are now barely making ends meet.
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** Of his first visit to Hundreds Hall, [[spoiler:Faraday says "I was not a gentleman", referring both to his working-class origins and to the cruel, greedy personality that's barely contained by the veneer of politeness]].
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* StartOfDarkness: The day Faraday first visited Hundreds Hall was the day things started going wrong for the Ayres family — beginning with their daughter, Suki, falling ill and dying.
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* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: While he's not a villain per se ([[spoiler:...probably]]}, Dr. Faraday is revealed to be an obsessive, misogynistic, judgmental man primarily motivated by greed and resentment.
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* ShadowArchetype: In the film, [[spoiler:the entity within Hundreds Hall is this to Faraday]].
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* ChildrenAreInnocent: inverted. Faraday's colleague argues that children have very strong, powerful wants and needs, which can then morph into something dark, [[spoiler:which is what happened to boy Faraday during his first visit at Hundreds Hall]].
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* GhostlyGoals: In the movie, the entity quite clearly wants [[spoiler:the house]].
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* AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder: In the movie, the entity in the house manifests itself differently to different characters, depending on what scares them. To Rod, badly burned in a plane crash, it shows itself as fire. [[spoiler:To Mrs. Ayres, it shows itself as her dead daughter, Suki. To Caroline, it shows its more or less true form, which is the monstrous version of Faraday.]]
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* AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder: In the movie, the entity in the house manifests itself differently to different characters, each family member, depending on what scares them.them the most. To Rod, badly burned in a plane crash, it shows itself as fire. [[spoiler:To Mrs. Ayres, it shows itself as her dead daughter, Suki. To Caroline, it shows appears in its more or less true form, which is the monstrous version of Faraday.]]
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* AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder: In the movie, the entity in the house manifests itself differently to different characters, depending on what scares them. [[spoiler:To Rod, badly burned in a plane crash, it shows itself as fire. To Mrs. Ayres, it shows itself as her dead daughter, Suki. To Caroline, it shows in its more or less true form, which is the monstrous version of Faraday.]]
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* AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder: In the movie, the entity in the house manifests itself differently to different characters, depending on what scares them. [[spoiler:To To Rod, badly burned in a plane crash, it shows itself as fire. To [[spoiler:To Mrs. Ayres, it shows itself as her dead daughter, Suki. To Caroline, it shows in its more or less true form, which is the monstrous version of Faraday.]]
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* AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTTheBeholder: In the movie, the entity in the house manifests itself differently to different characters, depending on what scares them. [[spoiler:To Rod, badly burned in a plane crash, it shows itself as fire. To Mrs. Ayres, it shows itself as her dead daughter, Suki. To Caroline, it shows in its more or less true form, which is the monstrous version of Faraday.]]
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* AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTTheBeholder: AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder: In the movie, the entity in the house manifests itself differently to different characters, depending on what scares them. [[spoiler:To Rod, badly burned in a plane crash, it shows itself as fire. To Mrs. Ayres, it shows itself as her dead daughter, Suki. To Caroline, it shows in its more or less true form, which is the monstrous version of Faraday.]]
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* AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTTheBeholder: In the movie, the entity in the house manifests itself differently to different characters, depending on what scares them. [[spoiler:To Rod, badly burned in a plane crash, it shows itself as fire. To Mrs. Ayres, it shows itself as her dead daughter, Suki. To Caroline, it shows in its more or less true form, which is the monstrous version of Faraday.]]
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** In the words of director Lenny Abrahamson: [[spoiler:"The boy does get the house, but what he gets is bricks and mortar and emptiness. None of the glamour, none of the warmth, none of the love and excitement that he imagined as a child."]].
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* PowerIncontinence: Faraday's colleague speculates that the poltergeist responsible for the haunting has no controkl over its powers [[spoiler:and is proven correct in the movie]].
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Sarah Waters is known for focusing on lesbian themes in her novels, and ''The Little Stranger'' is her first work to feature no explicitly queer characters. However, in the film, the perennially single Caroline excitedly dances with a female friend from school (who she then claims not to care for) — in direct contrast to her earlier stuff, lifeless dancing with Faraday.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Sarah Waters is known for focusing on lesbian themes in her novels, and ''The Little Stranger'' is her first work to feature no explicitly queer characters. However, in the film, the perennially single Caroline excitedly dances with a female friend from school (who she then claims not to care for) — in direct contrast to her earlier stuff, stiff, lifeless dancing with Faraday.
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* BookEnds: The first shot of the movie is of Faraday looking at himself in the mirror while shaving. One of the last shots is of him looking in the mirror at Hundreds Hall, [[spoiler:trying to spot the ghost that haunted the place]].
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Faraday's friendship with the Ayres family is motivated by his desire to spend as much time at Hundreds Hall — which had captivated him as a child — as possible. In the end, [[spoiler:he is given free roam of the now abandoned house]].
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* PlainJane: Caroline is described as mannish, plain-faces and unkempt, and tends to further wear unflattering clothing.
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The novel [[TheFilmOfTheBook was adapted into a film in 2018]], starring Creator/DomhnallGleeson, Creator/RuthWilson, Creator/WillPoulter and Creator/CharlotteRampling.
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The novel [[TheFilmOfTheBook was adapted into a film in 2018]], directed by Creator/LennyAbrahamson and starring Creator/DomhnallGleeson, Creator/RuthWilson, Creator/WillPoulter and Creator/CharlotteRampling.
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